---
name: "Gavin Friday"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gavin-friday"
fi1m_id: "gavin-friday"
imdb_id: "nm0294859"
tmdb_id: 62641
wikidata_id: "Q707268"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "8 October 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T21:27:50.222222+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."
---

# Gavin Friday

## Identity

Gavin Friday

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gavin-friday
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gavin-friday
- **IMDb ID:** nm0294859
- **TMDB ID:** 62641
- **Wikidata ID:** Q707268
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Friday, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707268, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/62641

Composer. Born 8 October 1959 in Dublin.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 8 October 1959, Dublin
- **Active:** 1993–1997
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 crew, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 76 (2), 2000s 67 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Friday, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707268, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/62641

## Biography

Gavin Friday is an Irish composer, singer-songwriter, actor and painter. Born Fionán Martin Hanvey in Dublin in 1959, he was a founding member of the post-punk band The Virgin Prunes and has maintained a long collaboration with musician Maurice Seezer since the mid-1980s.

Friday has composed scores for several films, including *In the Name of the Father* (1993), *The Boxer* (1997), *Disco Pigs* (2001), *In America* (2003) and *Get Rich or Die Tryin'* (2005). He has also appeared as an actor in *Disco Pigs* (2001) and *Breakfast on Pluto* (2005).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, gavinfriday.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Crew (2) — the average rests on these

- *The Boxer* (1997), Fi1m 68, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-boxer.md)
- *In the Name of the Father* (1993), Fi1m 83, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-name-of-the-father.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Scott Walker: 30 Century Man* (2007), Fi1m 67, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/scott-walker-30-century-man.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Peter & the Wolf* (2023), as Narrator · Music
- *A Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance* (2023), Actor
- *Chelsea on the Rocks* (2008), Music Producer, Music Supervisor
- *Breakfast on Pluto* (2005), as Billy Hatchett
- *Get Rich or Die Tryin'* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *In America* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Disco Pigs* (2001), as Paschal Stankard · Original Music Composer
- *The Boxer* (1997), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-boxer.md)
- *Angel Baby* (1995), Music
- *In the Name of the Father* (1993), as Songs — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-name-of-the-father.md)

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