Jim Parker has passed away at age 88. The British composer was known for scoring over a hundred episodes of ITV’s Midsomer Murders (aka Inspector Barnaby), the first seasons of ITV’s Foyle’s War, BBC’s Born and Bred and BBC’s original 1990 House of Cards series (for which he received a BAFTA TV Award nomination) and its two sequels. He won four BAFTA TV Awards for 1993’s second part of the House of Cards trilogy, To Play the King, 1996’s 4-part drama The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, the 1997 mini-series The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling and the 1998 TV movie A Rather English Marriage starring Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay & Joanna Lumley. Parker is survived his wife and three daughters.
Jim Parker (1934-2023)
Posted: July 31, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Jim Parker
We truly lost an underrated talented composer. Sadly only a fraction of his work has been published to listeners. I surely hope they will release all his soundtrack soon, so his legendary work will survive forever.