Dan Jones
Age: N/A | From: Lewisham, London, England, UK
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Lewisham, London, England, UK
Homepage: https://www.fabermusic.com/we-represent/dan-jones
Movie Involvements: 18
TV Involvements: 10
Most Famous Work
Biography
Dan Jones is a British composer and sound designer working in film and theatre. He read music at the University of Oxford, studied contemporary music theatre at the Banff Centre for the Arts and studied electro-acoustic composition and programming at the Centro Ricerche Musicali in Rome. Having explored various means of generating music algorithmically, he is the author of one of the earliest pieces of software for generating fractal or self-similar music. He has won BAFTA and Ivor Novello Awards. He composed the score for the Peabody Award-winning documentary film Bobi Wine: The People's President His scores for feature films include Shadow of the Vampire (starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe), In Transit (also starring John Malkovich), Jericho Mansions (starring James Caan) and Menno Meyjes' Max (starring John Cusack), for which he received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Score 2004. He also scored Meyjes' follow up film Manolete (starring Adrien Brody and Penélope Cruz). He has written for all the major British television broadcasters and his work includes Sir David Attenborough's The Life of Mammals, the BBC series Strange, Pawel Pawlikowski's drama "Twockers", Charlie Brooker's Channel 4 horror series "Dead Set" and Francesca Joseph's "Tomorrow La Scala", Channel 4's three-part documentary " Visions of Heaven and Hell" shown in 1994. He collaborated with Sebastião Salgado, John Berger and Paul Carlin on the BBC Arena (television) special "The Spectre of Hope". He recently composed the music for the BAFTA Best Drama Serial Any Human Heart for Channel 4 which also won both BAFTA and Ivor Novello Best Television Score Awards. More recently, he composed the music for ITV's controversial Fred West drama, 'Appropriate Adult'.
Most Famous Work
The Hollow Crown
(2012) Music
SS-GB
(2017) Music
Man in an Orange Shirt
(2017) Music
Criminal Justice
(2008) Original Music Composer
Dead Set
(2008) Music
The Miniaturist
(2017) Original Music Composer
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
(2014) Original Music Composer
Flesh and Blood
(2020) Original Music ComposerActing
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| 2023 | Original Music Composer | |
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| 2018 | Music | |
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| 2016 | Original Music Composer | |
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| 2014 | Original Music Composer | |
| 2012 | Original Music Composer | |
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| 2009 | Music | |
| 2008 | Music | |
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| 2007 | Music | |
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| 2002 | Music | |
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| 1994 | Music | |
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Lighting
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| 1998 | Electrician | |
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