David Arnold (b. January 23, 1962) is a Grammy Award-winning English film composer, best known for scoring five James Bond films, the blockbuster "Independence Day" and cult television show "Little Britain". David has worked on various soundtrack projects including: "The Young Americans", "Stargate", "Last Of The Dogmen", "Godzilla", "The Musketeer", "The Stepford Wives" and "Four Brothers" amongst others. He also composed the theme music for several British television series, including the 2000 remake of "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" and "Little Britain". In 1997 Arnold produced "Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project", an album featuring new versions of the themes from various James Bond films. Away from the film world, David Arnold maintains a career as a successful record producer and song writer, having worked with a wide range of contemporary artists including kd lang, Pulp, Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop, Garbage, Massive Attack, David McAlmont, Martina Topley-Bird, Natasha Bedingfield, Aimee Mann, George Michael and Damien Rice.
Frequent collaborator with directors Roland Emmerich , John Singleton , Roger Michell and Michael Apted.
At the time he was hired by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich to write the score for Stargate , he had only scored one independent film and was working as a clerk at a local record store in England.
Was highly recommended to producers to do the score for Tomorrow Never Dies by John Barry , composer of 11 James Bond films. Arnold went on to score five James Bond films in total, second only to Barry.
The producers for The Young Americans allotted him only enough money to produce the score electronically. He spent 2000 of his own money to secure a small orchestra for six hours, and was able to orchestrate the entire score for the film in that time.
Born circa 1958 (source: Spotlight 1972).
Brother of actress Ashley Arnold.
Brother of actor Michael William Arnold.
We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.
Pain makes people who they are.
Memories are as infinite as the horizon.
People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home is the heart,They lived and they laughed and they saw it was good.
