---
name: "Paul Thomson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-thomson-1466671"
fi1m_id: "paul-thomson-1466671"
imdb_id: "nm1527053"
tmdb_id: 1466671
wikidata_id: "Q16214237"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "18 February 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T15:46:17.221381+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."
---

# Paul Thomson

## Identity

Paul Thomson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-thomson-1466671
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-thomson-1466671
- **IMDb ID:** nm1527053
- **TMDB ID:** 1466671
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16214237
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thomson_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16214237, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1527053/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1466671

Composer. Born 18 February 1972 in Walsall.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 18 February 1972, Walsall
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thomson_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16214237, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1527053/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1466671

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Fades*](https://film.one/tv/the-fades.md) (72)

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## Biography

Paul Thomson is an English composer for film, television and video games. Born on 18 February 1972 in Walsall, Staffordshire, he began musical training as a chorister with Worcester Cathedral Choir and later studied at Bristol University and Bournemouth, obtaining an MA in Music.

Thomson founded the music technology company Spitfire Audio with Christian Henson in 2007. His screen credits include the BBC series *The Fades* (2011), for which he received the Royal Television Society Award for Best Original Title Music, the film *Half of a Yellow Sun* (2013) and the video game *LittleBigPlanet 2* (2011).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, paul-thomson.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Fades* (2011), Fi1m 72, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fades.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *The Interceptor* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Gunfighter* (2014), Music
- *Half of a Yellow Sun* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *The Fades* (2011), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-fades.md)
- *In Loco Parentis* (2011), Music
- *Where the Heart Is* (1997), series, Original Music Composer

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