The following is a list of Brian Bennett's commissions for both TV and film over the last 20 years.
The list is by no means complete but contains his most notable works.
Music: Brian Bennett & Warren Bennett
Starring: Amanda Redman as Sandra Pullman, Dennis Waterman as Gerry Standing, Alun Armstrong as Brian Lane and James Bolam as Jack Halford. Also featured are Susan Jameson, Anthony Calf and Natalie Forbes.
Guest stars include Lynda Bellingham, John Sessions, Sheila Hancock, Geoffrey Bayldon, June Whitfield, Peter Hugo-Daly, George Baker, Lindsey Coulson, Eric Sykes, George Cole, Jan Francis, Roy Hudd, Hannah Waterman & Jeremy Sheffield.
Peter Crawford's programme for the BBC which featured the moon and the effects it has on Earth.
Music: Brian Bennett
Music: Brian Bennett
Starring: Tara Fitzgerald, James Wilby, Paul Rhys, Gary Kemp, Gaynor Faye, Neil Morrissey, Natasha Little, Diana Rigg, John Bowe, Adam Faith, Jamie Theakston, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Ruth Gemmell, Helen Baxendale, Adrian Dunbar, Tim Healy, Bhasker Patel & Nina Wadia.
Series 2:
A series of 8 x 60 minute films.
Music: Brian Bennett
Starring: Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Geraldine Somerville, Neil Dudgeon, Maggie O'Neill, Samantha Robson, Michael Greco, Nigel Havers, Patsy Kensit, Neil Stuke, Neil Pearson, Dennis Waterman, Tony Haygarth.
A Christmas/New Year special from the BBC Natural History Unit.
Music: Brian Bennett
Producer: Peter Crawford
Presenter: Sir David Attenborough
Music: Brian Bennett
Starring: David Suchet, Gillian Kearney, Steve McFadden, Susannah Harker, Reece Dinsdale, Ian Kelsey, Tim Healy, Timothy West, Judy Parfitt, Kevin Whately, Denise Van Outen & Keeley Hawes
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Winner of the International Wildlife Film Festival Merit Award for Music (USA)
Music: Brian Bennett
Writer & Producer: Peter Crawford
Peter Crawford: “Brian's music captured exactly the right balance between the traditional affection and admiration we have for our native wildlife and the growing concern we have for its future.”
Music: Brian Bennett
Writer & Producer: Peter Crawford
Peter Crawford: “Brian Bennett has created the big screen sound we wanted for our epic Polynesian story. He has worked long and hard to empathise with our programmes.”
For more insight into my work with Peter Crawford, please see The Peter Crawford Collaboration page.
Music: Brian Bennett
Producer: Neil Zeiger
Director: Matthew Evans
Starring: Serena Evans, Simon Chandler, Jane Hazlegrove, Paul Blair
Music: Brian Bennett
Director: Matthew Evans
Music: Brian Bennett
Peter Crawford: "Like the programme itself, the music that Brian Bennett has composed for Global Sunrise is not just an atmospheric evocation of dawn around the world, it is a celebration of all life on this planet."
Music: Brian Bennett
Director: Herbert Wise
Starring: Christien Anholt, Geraldine O'Rawe, Stephen McGann, John Kavanagh, Colin Baker & BJ Hogg
Brian appears in 'The Harpist' conducting his own Harp Concerto which was composed especially for the film.
Starring: Keith Barron, Pip Torrens, Kate Buffery, Don Henderson, Ronald Pickup. 1996
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Daisy Haggard, Emily Mortimer & Helena Mitchell
Starring: Phoebe Nicholls, Christine Kavanagh, Julian Wadham
Starring: Amanda Redman, Owen Teale & Lucy Cohu
Starring: George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Jane Lapotaire & George Harris
Starring: Jason Flemyng & Camilla Power
Starring: Janet Suzman, Richard Johnson & Edward Hardwicke.
Starring: Susannah York, John Castle & Rowena Cooper 1995
Starring: Eleanor David, Peter Egan & Jane Gurnett
Starring: Eleanor Bron & Simon Ward
Music: Brian BennettStarring: Colin Firth, Emma Croft, George Costigan, Robert Urquhart, Sylvia Syms, Patricia Hayes, Ingrid Lacey, John Michie
Starring: John Duttine & Mel Martin
A drama series broadcast on ITV which ran for 5 years.
Music: Brian Bennett
Producer: Paul Knight
Starring: George Baker & Christopher Ravenscroft
Starring: Tara Simpson, Julia Booth, Lawrence Mullin, Carolyn Knight, Catherine Jayne Walker, Kerry Dowse, Eamon Clarke
Starring: George Baker & Christopher Ravenscroft
Starring: George Baker & Christopher Ravenscroft.
Music: Brian Bennett
Starring: Peter Capaldi
Starring: Rossano Brazzi, Beryl Reid, Janet Maw, Diane Keen & Cherie Lunghi.
A series of 50 minute films broadcast onWinner of the 1990 Ivor Novello award for Best Theme For A TV Production
Music: Brian Bennett
Music from the series has been released on 3 CDs
Inspector Wexford Theme:
Starring: Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph
A series of 75 & 50 minute episodesMusic: Brian Bennett
Producer: Paul Knight
Writer: Roy Clarke
Music: Brian BennettStarring: Ellen Barkin, Joe Spano, David McCallum
This theme has been used in all of the BBC's coverage for every major golfing event over the past 20 years.
Music: Brian Bennett