![]() ![]() In the 1970s and 1980s, Gunning collaborated with rock musician Colin Blunstone and was responsible for the distinctive string arrangement on Blunstone's 1972 hit " Say You Don't Mind". You Are Awful (1972), the film version of Man About the House (1974), In Celebration (1975), Rogue Male (1976), Charlie Muffin (1979), Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), Knights of God (1987), When the Whales Came (1989), Lighthouse Hill (2004) and Grace of Monaco (2014). His other film scores included Goodbye Gemini (1970), Hands of the Ripper (1971), Ooh. He also won three Ivor Novello Awards, for the TV miniseries Rebecca, and the film scores for Under Suspicion (1991), and Firelight (1997). Gunning's film and television compositions received many awards, including the 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for La Vie en Rose, as well as three additional awards for Agatha Christie's Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his tutors included Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett. His father was a pianist and educator from South Africa, and his mother had been one of his father's pupils. Gunning was born in Cheltenham on 5 August 1944, the younger of two sons. Christopher Gunning (5 August 1944 – 25 March 2023) was an English composer of concert works and music for films and television. ![]()
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