---
name: "Michael Gibbs"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-gibbs"
fi1m_id: "michael-gibbs"
imdb_id: "nm0002658"
tmdb_id: 70588
wikidata_id: "Q1750306"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "25 September 1937"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T01:33:58.805595+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."
---

# Michael Gibbs

## Identity

Michael Gibbs

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-gibbs
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-gibbs
- **IMDb ID:** nm0002658
- **TMDB ID:** 70588
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1750306
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gibbs_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1750306, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70588

Composer. Born 25 September 1937 in Harare, Zimbabwe.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 25 September 1937, Harare, Zimbabwe
- **Active:** 1987–1992
- **Also known as:** 米高吉斯
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 78 (1), 1990s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gibbs_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1750306, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70588

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Hard Boiled*](https://film.one/film/hard-boiled.md) (86)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Housekeeping*](https://film.one/film/housekeeping.md) (78)

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

## Biography

Michael Gibbs is a Rhodesian-born English jazz composer, conductor, arranger and producer, as well as a trombonist and keyboardist. He was born Michael Clement Irving Gibbs on 25 September 1937 in Harare, then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He studied at the Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory in the United States from 1959, later taking scholarships at the Lennox School of Jazz and Tanglewood Music Center, before settling in England.

Gibbs is known for his film scores, including *Housekeeping* (1987), *Close My Eyes* (1991), *Hard Boiled* (1992), *Being Human* (1994) and *Century* (1993). He served as musical director for the BBC television comedy series *The Goodies* from 1970 to 1974 and has worked as a freelance arranger and producer with artists including Gary Burton, Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny and Peter Gabriel.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Hard Boiled* (1992), Fi1m 86, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/hard-boiled.md)
- *Housekeeping* (1987), Fi1m 78, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/housekeeping.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Purely Belter* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Deja Vu* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Shockers* (1999), series, Original Music Composer
- *Gregory's Two Girls* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *All Men Are Mortal* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Being Human* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *99-1* (1994), series, Original Music Composer
- *Century* (1993), Original Music Composer
- *Hard Boiled* (1992), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/hard-boiled.md)
- *Close My Eyes* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Whore* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Iron and Silk* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *Breaking In* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Riding the Edge* (1989), Sound
- *The Play on One* (1988), series, Original Music Composer
- *Down Where the Buffalo Go* (1988), Music
- *Housekeeping* (1987), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/housekeeping.md)
- *Heat* (1986), Original Music Composer
- *Madame Sin* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Secrets* (1971), Original Music Composer

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