Biography
Philip Pope is a British composer and actor. He graduated from New College, Oxford in 1979 after attending Downside School. He began his career as a performer and composer on the BBC radio series Radio Active (1980–87), which transferred to television as KYTV.
Pope co-wrote the Hee Bee Gee Bees single "Meaningless Songs" (1980) with Richard Curtis and served as musical director for Spitting Image, co-writing the UK number-one hit "The Chicken Song". He has composed music and themes for numerous television series including Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Fast Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Outnumbered and Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999). His film work includes the score for Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000).
