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name: "Philip Pope"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/philip-pope-6120082"
fi1m_id: "philip-pope-6120082"
tmdb_id: 6120082
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "11 August 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T15:38:57.976390+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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# Philip Pope

## Identity

Philip Pope

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/philip-pope-6120082
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** philip-pope-6120082
- **TMDB ID:** 6120082
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6120082

Composer. Born 11 August 1956.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 11 August 1956
- **Active:** 1999–2012
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6120082

## 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).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gimme Gimme Gimme* (1999), Fi1m 52, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/gimme-gimme-gimme.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Kate & Koji* (2020), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Cricklewood Greats* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Kevin & Perry Go Large* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Gimme Gimme Gimme* (1999), series, Music — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/tv/gimme-gimme-gimme.md)

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