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Ronald Erle Grainer (11 August 1922 – 21 February 1981) was an Australian composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his television and film score music, especially the theme music for Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Steptoe and Son and Tales of the Unexpected .
Composer. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Ron Grainer was one of the outstanding composers of music for British television. He was born in a small mining town called Atherton, Queensland, Australia on 11th August 1922, where his father owned the local milk bar.
- Music Department, Composer, Actor
- August 11, 1922
- Ron Grainer
- February 21, 1981
Welcome to the Ron Grainer web-site, as far as we are aware, the *only* web-site devoted to the late, great composer. Ron has never received the credit he deserved for a life-time of work composing music for television, film and stage musicals. In the area of television in particular he has written five themes which are almost indelibly ...
The Whoniverse. Ron Grainer was born in 1922 in Queensland, Australia and by his early teens had become a skilled pianist and violinist. He studied music under Sir Eugene Goosens at the Sydney...
Jul 20, 2021 · Ronald Erle "Ron" Grainer (11 August 1922, Atherton, Queensland, Australia – 21 February 1981, Cuckfield, Sussex, England) was an Australian composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. Ron Grainer was the first child of Margaret Clark, an amateur pianist, and Ronald Albert Grainer, a storekeeper and postmaster.
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Aug 31, 2018 · Learn about Ron Grainer, the classically trained Australian composer who wrote the iconic theme to the British science-fiction show Doctor Who. Discover how he collaborated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to create the otherworldly soundscape and how his theme has been re-recorded and re-imagined over the years.
