Simon Preston(1938-2022)

Music Department
Actor
Soundtrack

Simon Preston was born on 4 August 1938 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Face/Off (1997), Amadeus (1984) and Corpse Bride (2005). He was married to Elizabeth Hays. He died on 13 May 2022 in the UK.

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Known for

Face/Off

7.3

Soundtrack

1997

Amadeus

8.4

Music Department

1984

Corpse Bride

7.4

Soundtrack

2005

The Favourite

7.5

Soundtrack

2018

Credits

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Music Department

Sacred Music
8.8
TV Series
- musician: organ
- organist
- 2010
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
8.7
TV Series
- master of the choristers
- 1986
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
7.0
TV Movie
- conductor: The Extremely Ancient Academy of Singers
- 1985
Amadeus
8.4
- conductor: The Choristers of Westminster Abbey
- 1984
Messiah
8.0
TV Special
- chorus master
- musician: organ
- 1982

Actor

Soundtrack

Your Friends & Neighbors
7.6
TV Series
- writer: "Salieri's March Turned into Non Piu Andrai"
- 2026
A Hidden Life
7.4
- performer: "Israel in Egypt, And Believed the Lord"
- 2019
The Favourite
7.5
- performer: "Fantasy"
- 2018
Corpse Bride
7.4
- performer: "Tannhauser: Pilgrim's Chorus"
- 2005
Two Girls and a Guy
5.5
- performer: "Gloria - Cum Sancto Spiritu"
- 1997
Face/Off
7.3
- performer: "Miserere"
- 1997
God's Comedy
7.2
- performer: "Etracto da 'Misa Santa Caecilia' (Agnus Dei)"
- 1995
War Requiem
6.6
- Soundtrack ("War Requiem, Op. 66")
- 1989
Distant Voices, Still Lives
7.4
- Soundtrack ("In the Bleak Midwinter")
- 1988
Testimony
7.1
- performer: "Michelangelo Sonnet & Symphony No. 13"
- 1987
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
7.0
TV Movie
- performer: "The Organ Concerto (Opus 7 No. 5)"
- 1985
The South Bank Show
7.1
TV Series
- performer: "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears"
- 1981
Rollerball
6.5
- performer: "Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565" (uncredited)
- 1975
Contrasts
TV Series
- performer: "Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam', S.259"
- 1968

Personal details

Official sites
- Bach_music
- Discogs
Born
- August 4, 1938
- Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
Died
- May 13, 2022
- UK(Natural causes)
Spouse
- Elizabeth Hays2012 - May 13, 2022 (his death)

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Trivia
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honors List for his services to Music as an organist.