---
name: "Geoffrey Burgon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geoffrey-burgon"
fi1m_id: "geoffrey-burgon"
imdb_id: "nm0121431"
tmdb_id: 10716
wikidata_id: "Q585731"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "15 July 1941"
died: "21 September 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 85
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T13:04:11.342950+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."
---

# Geoffrey Burgon

## Identity

Geoffrey Burgon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geoffrey-burgon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geoffrey-burgon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0121431
- **TMDB ID:** 10716
- **Wikidata ID:** Q585731
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Burgon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q585731, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121431/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10716

Composer. Born 15 July 1941 in Gosport, Hampshire, England. Died 21 September 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 15 July 1941, Gosport, Hampshire, England
- **Died:** 21 September 2010
- **Active:** 1963–2000
- **Frequently works with:** [Charles Sturridge](https://film.one/person/charles-sturridge.md), [Jeremy Irons](https://film.one/person/jeremy-irons.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 81 (1), 1970s 88 (2), 1980s 83 (1)
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action & Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, War & Politics 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $21m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Burgon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q585731, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121431/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10716

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Life of Brian*](https://film.one/film/life-of-brian.md) (88)
- **Apple TV:** [*Brideshead Revisited*](https://film.one/tv/brideshead-revisited.md) (83)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Geoffrey Burgon (1941–2010) was an English composer of film and television scores as well as concert, choral and stage works. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked initially as a jazz trumpeter before devoting himself to composition, studying privately with Lennox Berkeley.

He came to prominence with his scores for the BBC series *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (1979) and the Granada adaptation of *Brideshead Revisited* (1981), each of which won him an Ivor Novello Award. Other notable screen credits include *Monty Python's Life of Brian* (1979), incidental music for *Doctor Who* (1975–1976), *The Dogs of War* (1980), *The Chronicles of Narnia* (1988–1989), *Robin Hood* (1991) and the 2002 remake of *The Forsyte Saga*. He received BAFTA Awards for his music for *Longitude* (2000) and *The Forsyte Saga*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, imdb.com, bbc.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Brideshead Revisited* (1981), Fi1m 83, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/tv/brideshead-revisited.md)
- *Life of Brian* (1979), Fi1m 88, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/life-of-brian.md)
- *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (1979), Fi1m 88, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-1979.md)
- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *Podshock* (2010), as Music
- *Playing in the Green Cathedral* (2010), as Music
- *9/11: A Tale of Two Towers* (2002), Music
- *The Forsyte Saga* (2002), series, Original Music Composer
- *Longitude* (2000), Music
- *Longitude* (2000), series, Original Music Composer
- *Cider with Rosie* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *When Trumpets Fade* (1998), Music
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Music
- *A Foreign Field* (1993), Music, Original Music Composer
- *Robin Hood* (1991), Music
- *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *The Happy Valley* (1987), Music
- *The Death of the Heart* (1987), Sound
- *Turtle Diary* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Z for Zachariah* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Bewitched* (1983), Music
- *Rolling Home* (1982), Music
- *Soft Targets* (1982), Music
- *How Many Miles to Babylon?* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Brideshead Revisited* (1981), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/brideshead-revisited.md)
- *The Dogs of War* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (1979), series, Music — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-1979.md)
- *Life of Brian* (1979), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/life-of-brian.md)
- *As You Like It* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *The Treasure of Abbot Thomas* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *The Changeling* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Sunflowers* (1968), Music
- *Doctor Who* (1963), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

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