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name: "Jeremy Sams"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeremy-sams"
fi1m_id: "jeremy-sams"
imdb_id: "nm0760255"
tmdb_id: 1073310
wikidata_id: "Q6181852"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "12 January 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:19:54.040763+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."
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# Jeremy Sams

## Identity

Jeremy Sams

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeremy-sams
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeremy-sams
- **IMDb ID:** nm0760255
- **TMDB ID:** 1073310
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6181852
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Sams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6181852, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0760255/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1073310

Composer. Born 12 January 1957 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 12 January 1957, London, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Sams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6181852, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0760255/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1073310

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Persuasion*](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md) (84)

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## Biography

Jeremy Sams is a British composer, theatre director, lyricist and translator. Born on 12 January 1957 in London, he is the son of musicologist Eric Sams. He studied music, French and German at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Sams composed the score for the 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's *Persuasion*, winning a BAFTA for Best Original Music. His other film scores include *The Mother* (2003), *Enduring Love* (2004), *Hyde Park on Hudson* (2012) and *Le Week-End* (2013). He has composed, arranged and directed music for numerous theatre productions and translated several opera libretti.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, fabermusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Persuasion* (1995), Fi1m 84, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *The Soldier's Tale* (2022), Translator
- *Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny* (2015), Translator
- *Le Week-End* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Hyde Park on Hudson* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *First Night* (2010), Writer
- *Enduring Love* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Mother* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Persuasion* (1995), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md)
- *Uncle Vanya* (1991), Music

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical 2003: Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (nominated), for *Amour*
- Tony Award for Best Original Score 2003: Tony Award for Best Original Score (nominated), for *Amour*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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