Magnus Fiennes

Magnus Fiennes is a highly successful film and television composer, record producer and songwriter. He has worked with artists such as Pulp, Tom Jones and Morcheeba. In 1997 he produced the All Saints million seller single Never Ever - a No. 4 in the US and No. 1 throughout Europe; producing and co-writing on their eponymous 5 million selling album. He has composed several major film scores, including Onegin, and Chromophobia, starring Penelope Cruz, Ralph Fiennes & Ben Chaplin. He has scored numerous commercials and TV shows including the highly successful BBC drama Hustle. He most recently completed creating and developing the $20 million animated cartoon series Freefonix. Magnus recently scored and wrote the themes for Vital Signs, a Tiger Aspect production, as well as scoring and writing the themes for Caspar The Friendly Ghost the feature sequel for Classic Media USA. He recently completed scoring the sixth series of Hustle for the BBC, having also scored series one, two, three and five. He scored Murphy's Law for Tiger Aspect, the dark thriller Five Days, a BBC/HBO co-production for which he wrote a wonderfully evocative opening title song, and Last Enemy for Box TV. Magnus also recently completed scoring both series of the gritty and tough drama, The Fixer, for Kudos, as well as the feature film Rounding Up Donkeys for Sigma Films.

As an in demand producer arranger programmer and re-mixer, Magnus has worked with a diverse range of artists including Jamelia, Neneh Cherry, Marriane Faithful, Bryan Ferry, Hal David, Seal, Yello, Eagle-Eye Cherry, David McAlmont, Ian McCulloch, Roland Gift, Lenny Kravitz, Nigel Kennedy, Daniel Lanois, Trilok Gurtu, Damien Hirst, Dot Allison, Geneva and Metisse as well as pop acts such as the Spice Girls and Boyzone. He also composed and produced much of the two multi-million selling albums from the controversial girl quartet Bond.

Recent work includes producing the double platinum ‘Watching Angels Mend’ for Australian singer songwriter Alex Lloyd, a collaboration with prestigious Canadian violinist Lara St John on a ground-breaking album of ‘Bach With Beats’ for Sony Classical, co-writing material with Massive Attack and The Sugababes and co-writing and producing album tracks and singles for Bertine Zetlitz (a Norwegian number one).

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Film Credits

ROUNDING UP DONKEYS
Sigma Films
Director: Morag McKinnon
Producers: Gillian Berrie, Anna Duffield

CASPAR THE FRIENDLY GHOST
Classic TV
Producer: Evan Baily

CHROMOPHOBIA
Rotholz Pictures/Isle of Man Film Commission
Director: Martha Fiennes
Producers: Ron Rothholtz, Tarak Ben Amar
Featuring: Penelope Cruz, Ian Holm, Kristen Scott Thomas Rhys Ifans, Damien Lewis

PETER COTTONTAIL ‘THE MOVIE’
Kapow Pictures
Director: Mark Gravas
Producers: Evan Baily, Ralph Guggenhiem
Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Lloyd, Tom Kenny

ONEGIN
Artisan Films
Director: Martha Fiennes
Producers: Simon Bosanquet, Ileen Maisel
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler
*Winner at Tokyo Film Festival and BAFTA nominated*

PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED
PTTP Films
Director: Stuart Urban (BAFTA award winner)
Producers: Keith Hayley, Stuart Urban
Starring: Tom Bell, Guinevere Turner

SOUP
Axis Films
Director: George Tiffin
Producer: Alex Winter
Starring: Trevor Eve, Alan Howarth

THE RECKONING
Renaissance Films
Director: Paul McGuigan
Producer: Caroline Wood
Starring: Paul Bethany, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox

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Television Credits

THE FIXER

(Series 1 & 2)
Kudos Productions/ITV

Director: Alrick Riley
Producer: Faith Penhale

LAST ENEMY
Box TV
Director: Ian B. Macdonald

Producer: Gub Neal

FIVE DAYS
BBC / HBO
Director: Otto Bathurst  
Producer: Paul Rutman  

MURPHYS LAW
BBC Northern Ireland / Tiger Aspect
Director: Colm McCarthy
Producers: Greg Brenman, Patrick Spence

HUSTLE
(Series 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6)
BBC
Directors: Robert Bailey, Otto Bathurst, Bharat Nalluri Alrick Riley, Minkie Spiro, John Strickland
Producers: Simon Crawford Collins, Karen Wilson

VITAL SIGNS                                                      
Tiger Aspect
Director: Charles Palmer
Producer: Kate Crowe

PLEASURELAND
Kudos Productions/Channel 4
Director: Brian Percival
Producer: Natasha Dack

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Miscellaneous

In addition Magnus has written and produced a number of featured songs creating title song for Paramount’s ‘Addicted to Love’ (featuring Neneh Cherry), Madonna’s‘Next Best Thing’ and Scala Pictures music biz satire ‘Five Seconds to Spare.’ He also produced tracks for Working Title’s Rowan Atkinson vehicle ‘Johnny English’. 

Magnus has written music for many major commercial campaigns including Coca-Cola, Ford, Pepsi Cola, Gordons Gin, Grolsh, Railtrack, Caesar’s Palace, Rover, Sega, Nintendo, Ferrero Rocher and Braun.

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