John E. Keane

John Elton Keane (born 17 April 1952 ) is a British BAFTA and BFI Award-winning film and television composer. He has been nominated for two British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, for A Very British Coup in 1989 and Hornblower: The Even Chance in 1999.

Keane's many credits include the 1993 miniseries Tales of the City, the 1998 film Hideous Kinky, and multiple installments of Hornblower between 1998 and 2003.

Early years Keane studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Edmund Rubbra, and piano with Geraldine Peppin. He went on to study sound recording and film music at the National Film and Television School. While there, he scored many graduation films, and his successful career as a composer was launched with his score for Careless Talk, which won the BAFTA Short Film Award in 1986. Keane quickly established himself in the film and television music industry in 1987, when he scored The Kitchen Toto, directed by Harry Hook. The film won the Tokyo Grand Prize, and Keane won a prize for Best Soundtrack at the Festival International du Film et de la Jeunesse. The same year, he won the 1987 British Film Institute prize for Young Composer of the Year.

Film and TV Keane's first television commission was for the serial A Very British Coup for director Mick Jackson. The show received many awards, including an International Emmy for Best Drama, five BAFTA Awards, a BAFTA nomination for Best Music, and Best Drama Series from the Broadcasting Press Guild. Since then, Keane has written music for a host of television dramas, including Selling Hitler, Tales from the City, A Pinch of Snuff, Faith, Hearts and Minds, Kavanagh QC, Plotlands, Far from the Madding Crowd, Pure Wickedness, Wives and Daughters, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, Monsignor Renard, Anna Karenina, The Russian Bride, Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, Mansfield Park, the Emmy Award-winning Hornblower, and Heroes and Villains: "Shogun and Cortes".

Keane has also written music for a number of documentary series, including Molly Dineen's BBC The Ark, winner of a BAFTA Award, and The House, about London's Royal Opera House. He has also written music for a number of feature films, including four directed by Gilles McKinnon: Small Faces, Trojan Eddie, Hideous Kinky, and Tara Road.

His recent credits include the BBC crime drama series Case Histories and Inspector George Gently.

Credits

Television 2014 Inspector George Gently – Blue for Bluebird Inspector George Gently – Gently Between the Lines 2013 Case Histories 2012 Inspector George Gently – Gently in the Cathedral Inspector George Gently – The Lost Child 2008 Sleep with Me Gently's Last Case 2007 Mansfield Park Who Gets the Dog? Inspector George Gently – Gently Go Man 2006 Perfect Day (The Funeral) 2005 Wallis & Edward Uncle Adolf Tom Brown's Schooldays 2004 Gunpowder, Treason & Plot The Brief Sparkling Cyanide A Line in the Sand 2002 Bait Night Flight 2001 The Russian Bride Hornblower (series 1,2,3) 2000 Monsignor Renard (4 episodes) The Last of the Blonde Bombshells Anna Karenina 1999 Kavanagh QC Series V Pure Wickedness Wives and Daughters (1 episode) 1998 Far from the Madding Crowd Kavanagh QC Series IV 1997 Plotlands (6-part serial) Stone Scissors Paper Kavanagh QC Series III 1996 Kavanagh QC Series II 1995 Killing Me Softly Mrs Hartley & the Growth Centre I'll Be Watching You 1994 Faith A Pinch of Snuff 1993 Circle of Deceit Tales of the City Maigret (2 episodes) Love and Reason (3 episodes) 1992 Force of Duty The Last of His Tribe The Count of Solar The Hummingbird Tree 1991 The Gravy Train Goes East Selling Hitler One Man's War 1990 Murder East Murder West Stolen The Gravy Train 1988 Defrosting the Fridge A Very British Coup Leaving 1985 Careless Talk

Feature films 2005 Tara Road 1998 Hideous Kinky 1997 A Further Gesture 1996 Letters from the East Trojan Eddie Small Faces 1990 Windprints 1989 Chattahoochee Resurrected 1987 The Kitchen Toto 1986 Nanou

Documentaries 2008 Heroes and Villains – Cortes Heroes and Villains – Shogun 2006 Wolf 2003 Out of the Ashes 2002 Princess to Queen 2001 The English Civil War 1996 The House 1994 True Brits: The Foreign Office 1993 English Women's Garden The Ark 1991 Billy – A Violent Mind 1989 EastEnd GP's Landshapes 1986 Movie Masterclass