# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dudley-simpson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:07.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dudley-simpson"
name: "Dudley Simpson"
slug: "dudley-simpson"
description: "Dudley George Simpson was an Australian composer and conductor. He was the Principal Conductor of the Royal Opera House orchestra for three years and worked as a composer on British television. He worked on the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he composed incidental music during the 1960s and 1970s. When Simpson died aged 95 in 2017, The Guardian wrote that he was \"at his most prolific as the creator of incidental music for Doctor Who in the 1960s and 1970s, contributing to 62 stories over almost 300 episodes – more than any other composer.\""
tagline: "Australian composer (1922-2017)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/aZNN0Sgu7gKU1jI44E0j9T22Tjp.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1922-10-04"
deathDate: "2017-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.86
  momentum:             0.6712564543889846
  historical:           8.155653333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800981/"
    handle:    "nm0800981"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دودلي سيمبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دودلى سيمبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dudley Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Simpson"
    title: "Dudley Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دادلی سیمپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dudley Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Simpson"
    title: "Dudley Simpson"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/74efcd4d-e0d1-418f-a38b-b32e5285478b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5311976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1397052"
    title: "Dudley Simpson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump