---
name: "Guy Woolfenden"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/guy-woolfenden"
fi1m_id: "guy-woolfenden"
imdb_id: "nm0941185"
tmdb_id: 1559190
wikidata_id: "Q2359783"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "12 July 1937"
died: "15 April 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:51:15.384517+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."
---

# Guy Woolfenden

## Identity

Guy Woolfenden

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/guy-woolfenden
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** guy-woolfenden
- **IMDb ID:** nm0941185
- **TMDB ID:** 1559190
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2359783
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Woolfenden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2359783, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1559190

Composer. Born 12 July 1937 in Ipswich, England. Died 15 April 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 12 July 1937, Ipswich, England
- **Died:** 15 April 2016
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Woolfenden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2359783, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1559190

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*A Doll's House*](https://film.one/film/a-dolls-house.md) (78)

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

## Biography

Guy Woolfenden was an English composer and conductor. He served as head of music at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1963 to 1998, composing incidental music for more than 150 productions, including scores for every play in the Shakespeare canon.

Woolfenden studied at Westminster Abbey Choir School and Cambridge University before joining the RSC in 1961. His film and television scores include *Work Is a Four-Letter Word* (1968), the 1968 film of *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, and the 1992 BBC production of *A Doll's House*. He received an OBE in 2007.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Doll's House* (1992), Fi1m 78, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/a-dolls-house.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *ANNA KARENINA* (1993), Orchestrator, Additional Music
- *A Doll's House* (1992), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/a-dolls-house.md)
- *Othello* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *Conquest of the South Pole* (1989), Music
- *Heart of the Country* (1987), series, Music
- *Secrets* (1983), Original Music Composer
- *Macbeth* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *The Comedy of Errors* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Antony and Cleopatra* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Work Is a 4-Letter Word* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The Wars of the Roses* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Wars of the Roses* (1965), series, Original Music Composer
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1964), Original Music Composer

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