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, 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.

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

Feature films
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 * Tara Road
 * Hideous Kinky
 * A Further Gesture
 * Letters from the East
 * Trojan Eddie
 * Small Faces
 * Windprints
 * Chattahoochee
 * Resurrected
 * The Kitchen Toto
 * Nanou

Documentaries
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 * Heroes and Villains – Cortes
 * Heroes and Villains – Shogun
 * Wolf
 * Out of the Ashes
 * Princess to Queen
 * The English Civil War
 * The House
 * True Brits: The Foreign Office
 * English Women's Garden
 * The Ark
 * Billy – A Violent Mind
 * EastEnd GP's
 * Landshapes
 * Movie Masterclass