---
name: "Richard Marvin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-marvin"
fi1m_id: "richard-marvin"
imdb_id: "nm0555552"
tmdb_id: 21467
wikidata_id: "Q3431030"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T14:59:39.207460+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."
---

# Richard Marvin

## Identity

Richard Marvin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-marvin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** richard-marvin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0555552
- **TMDB ID:** 21467
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3431030
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marvin_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431030, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0555552/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21467

Composer. Born 1 January 1955.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1955
- **Active:** 2001–2011
- **Also known as:** Rick Marvin
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2010s 63 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marvin_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431030, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0555552/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21467

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Six Feet Under*](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md) (86)
- **Peacock:** [*Grimm*](https://film.one/tv/grimm.md) (63)

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

## Biography

Richard Marvin is an American composer for film and television, sometimes credited as Rick Marvin.

He grew up in suburban Philadelphia and studied classical and jazz piano, composition, and electronic music at Indiana University School of Music. After moving to Los Angeles in 1978, he worked as a session musician and synthesist for composers including Mike Post and Maurice Jarre before beginning to compose scores in the early 1990s.

Marvin is known for his scores for the television series *Six Feet Under* (2001–2005) and *Grimm* (2011–2017), as well as the films *U-571* (2000) and *Surrogates* (2009). He has received BMI Film and Television Awards for his work on *U-571* and *Six Feet Under*.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Grimm* (2011), Fi1m 63, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/grimm.md)
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), Fi1m 86, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

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

- *Gone* (2018), series, Music
- *Years of Living Dangerously* (2014), series, Original Music Composer
- *Prosecuting Casey Anthony* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Grimm* (2011), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/grimm.md)
- *Bond of Silence* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *The Client List* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *The Pregnancy Pact* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Surrogates* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Acceptance* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Dead Like Me: Life After Death* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Picture This* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Princess* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *In Treatment* (2008), series, Original Music Composer
- *Girl, Positive* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Thief* (2006), series, Original Music Composer
- *Empire* (2005), series, Original Music Composer
- *Vinegar Hill* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Mom at Sixteen* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure* (2005), Music
- *Naughty or Nice* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Mystery of Natalie Wood* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Gracie's Choice* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Battle of Shaker Heights* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Hunger Point* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Desert Saints* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *The Lost Battalion* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Protection* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)
- *U-571* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Absence of the Good* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Galgameth* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Breakdown* (1997), Additional Music
- *Dead Men Can't Dance* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Last Resort* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Escape Clause* (1996), Original Music Composer
- *Trail of Tears* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Escape to Witch Mountain* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *Final Mission* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Save Me* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *3 Ninjas Kick Back* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn* (1993), Music
- *Interceptor* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *3 Ninjas* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Flight of Black Angel* (1991), Original Music Composer
- *The Outing* (1987), Music Programmer

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