Murray Jonathan Gold (born 28 February 1969) is a five-time BAFTA nominated English composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. He is best known as the musical director and composer of the music for
Doctor Who from 2005, until he stepped down in 2018 after the tenth series aired in 2017. Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA five times in the category Best Original Television Music, for
Vanity Fair (1999),
Queer as Folk(2000),
Casanova (2006) and twice for
Doctor Who (2009 and 2014). His score for the BAFTA winning film
Kiss of Life was awarded the 'Mozart Prize of the 7th Art' by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated four times by the Royal Television Society in categories relating to music for television.He has worked with Russell T Davies, the former writer and executive producer of
Doctor Who, many times in the past on projects such as
Casanova (starring David Tennant),
The Second Coming (starring Christopher Eccleston) and
Queer as Folk 1 & 2. He has also provided the incidental music for the 2000s version of
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) alongside James Bond composer David Arnold, who provided the theme tune. He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series Shameless and scored the period drama The Devil's Whore. More recently Gold scored another David Tennant series, in BBC1's Single Father. In this, Gold opted for a more popular music style ensemble rather than writing for orchestra. Since 2012 Murray Gold has composed the musical score for the drama series Last Tango in Halifax. In 2014, Gold scored the BBC series The Musketeers
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