---
name: "Francis Monkman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/francis-monkman"
fi1m_id: "francis-monkman"
imdb_id: "nm0598263"
tmdb_id: 1330545
wikidata_id: "Q2658828"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "9 June 1949"
died: "12 May 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:30:21.296705+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Francis Monkman

## Identity

Francis Monkman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/francis-monkman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** francis-monkman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0598263
- **TMDB ID:** 1330545
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2658828
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Monkman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2658828, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598263/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1330545

Composer. Born 9 June 1949 in Hampstead, London, England. Died 12 May 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 9 June 1949, Hampstead, London, England
- **Died:** 12 May 2023
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Monkman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2658828, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598263/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1330545

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Long Good Friday*](https://film.one/film/the-long-good-friday.md) (88)

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## Biography

Francis Monkman was an English composer, keyboardist and guitarist. He studied organ and harpsichord at Westminster School and the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the Raymond Russell prize, and performed with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

In the late 1960s he co-founded the progressive rock band Curved Air. He later joined the classical-rock fusion band Sky, which he left in 1980. Monkman composed the soundtrack for the film *The Long Good Friday* (1980) and contributed to other film and television scores.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, discogs.com, scotsman.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Long Good Friday* (1980), Fi1m 88, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-long-good-friday.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Innocent* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *The Long Good Friday* (1980), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-long-good-friday.md)
- *Invasion: UFO* (1980), as Theme Song Performance · Music

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