---
name: "Roy Budd"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roy-budd"
fi1m_id: "roy-budd"
imdb_id: "nm0005982"
tmdb_id: 51883
wikidata_id: "Q4762"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "14 March 1947"
died: "7 August 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:29:10.878888+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."
---

# Roy Budd

## Identity

Roy Budd

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roy-budd
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roy-budd
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005982
- **TMDB ID:** 51883
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4762
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Budd, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4762, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51883

Composer. Born 14 March 1947 in Mitcham. Died 7 August 1993.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 14 March 1947, Mitcham
- **Died:** 7 August 1993
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Budd, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4762, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51883

## Biography

Roy Budd (1947–1993) was an English jazz pianist and film composer. A self-taught child prodigy with perfect pitch, he began playing piano by ear as a toddler and made his public debut at the London Coliseum at the age of six. He formed a jazz trio in his teens and turned professional at sixteen.

Budd scored more than fifty films, beginning with *Soldier Blue* (1970). He is best known for his work on *Get Carter* (1971), for which he composed and performed the minimalist main theme using only three musicians on a limited budget, as well as *The Wild Geese* (1978), *The Sea Wolves* (1980) and several other thrillers and adventure films. He also composed for television and stage, and completed a symphonic score for the 1925 silent film *The Phantom of the Opera* shortly before his death.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Get Carter* (1971), Fi1m 86, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/get-carter.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *Field of Honor* (1986), Music
- *Wild Geese II* (1985), Music
- *Squaring the Circle* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *The Big Bang* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Who Dares Wins* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Mama Dracula* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *The Sea Wolves* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *The Missing Link* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *The Sandbaggers* (1978), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Wild Geese* (1978), Original Music Composer
- *Tomorrow Never Comes* (1978), Music
- *Foxbat* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *Bloodthirsty Hawk* (1977), Music
- *Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *Welcome to Blood City* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *Paper Tiger* (1975), Original Music Composer, Conductor, Musician, Orchestrator
- *Diamonds* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *The Marseille Contract* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *The Internecine Project* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *The Black Windmill* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *The Stone Killer* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *Something to Hide* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *Steptoe & Son Ride Again* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *Man at the Top* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *Fear Is the Key* (1972), Music
- *The Man Who Came to Dinner* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *The Carey Treatment* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Steptoe & Son* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Kidnapped* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins* (1971), Music, Conductor
- *Catlow* (1971), Music
- *Zeppelin* (1971), Original Music Composer, Conductor
- *Flight of the Doves* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Get Carter* (1971), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/get-carter.md)
- *Soldier Blue* (1970), Original Music Composer, Conductor

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