Peter Brewis is a composer and instrumentalist who has been active in several spheres of music from ballet and modern dance to music theatre and rock music. Although he was classically trained, studying under the famous French music educator Nadia Boulanger, he is best known for his song-writing for comedy shows such as Spitting Image for which he composed I've Never Met a Nice South African.
[on the spoof musical in The Tall Guy (1989)] Mel [Mel Smith] really wanted to do that because he didn't like Andrew Lloyd Webber's stuff any more than I did, but he did love Sondheim, as do I, so it's a kind of hybrid actually. It's a send-up of both of them but it's most venomous I think about Andrew Lloyd Webber. There's one song that's terribly like him.
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Once More for Bobby
2014
Documentary
The Smith and Jones Sketchbook
2006
TV Series
Love Is Strange
2004
Short
Intolerance II: The Invasion
2001
Short
Intolerance
2000
Short
The Strangerers
2000
TV Series
The Sexlife of a Chair
1998
Short
The Chain
1997
Short
The Ten Commandments Number 10: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour's Wife
1996
Short
The Ten Commandments Number 2: Thou Shalt Not Commit Blasphemy
1995
Short
The Ten Commandments Number 3: Remember to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day
1995
Short
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
1993-1995
TV Series 12 episodes
The Ten Commandments Number 1: Thou Shalt Not Adore False Gods
1994
Short
The Ten Commandments Number 6: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
1994
Short
Staggered
1994
Tales from the Poop Deck
1992
TV Series 6 episodes
The Best of 'The Lenny Henry Show'
1990
Video
The Tall Guy
1989
Hale and Pace
1988
TV Series
Hardwicke House
1987
TV Series 2 episodes
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
TV Series 6 episodes
Morons from Outer Space
1985
Pushing Up Daisies
1984
TV Series
The Young Ones
1982-1984
TV Series 12 episodes
Spitting Image
1984
TV Series 2 episodes
Alas Smith & Jones
1984
TV Series
Three of a Kind
1982-1983
TV Series 12 episodes
Not the Nine O'Clock News
1980-1982
TV Series 2 episodes
Smith and Goody
1980
TV Series
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Men of the World
1994
TV Series arranger - 6 episodes
Hale and Pace
1990
TV Series composer - 1 episode
Alas Smith & Jones
1984
TV Series musical director - 1 episode
The Two Ronnies
1982
TV Series musical director - 1 episode
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
About a Boy
2002
lyrics: "Santa's Super Sleigh" / music: "Santa's Super Sleigh"
Morons from Outer Space
1985
arranger: "THE ENTERTAINER" - uncredited / producer: "MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE" / writer: "MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE"
$600,000
