Film and Television Career
After working with film composer Maurice Jarre in the mid 1970s he became involved in composing for film and television. His first work was to provide music for the television series Tales of the Unexpected in 1979. In the subsequent 31 years he has supplied scores to over 80 television and film projects.
Notable works include 1979's Martian Chronicles ending titles, 1984's wistful Shroud for a Nightingale theme for the PD James detective series, 1985's Defence of the Realm, Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H in 1991 which he co-wrote with Elvis Costello (and which won them, jointly, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award) and most recently in 2006 Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code and Gabriel Range's Death of a President.
In addition he has been a musician on such films as The Lion King, Enemy of the State and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Compositions from Harvey's "Nifty Digits" release (KPM Library #1251) are featured in a famous Sesame Street segment filmed at the Binney and Smith Crayola crayon factory in Easton, PA.
Harvey also composed the theme song for TBS' World Championship Wrestling called "Dynamics".
Harvey is also a prolific composer of production music.
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