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Stephen McKeon

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Stephen McKeon is an Irish composer of film and television soundtrack music. He has received two Irish Film and Television Awards for John Boorman films, The Tiger's Tail in 2007 and Queen & Country in 2015, and was previously nominated for Blind Flight, Savage and the children's animated feature Niko 2 - Little Brother, Big Trouble. His other works include the music for The Nephew (1998) and Borstal Boy (2000). He also scored the 2011 biopic Hattie.

McKeon has written the scores of over 100 films (as of 2019), a number of Hercule Poirot TV movies, and many TV drama series, including Black Mirror. He has also scored the fourth and fifth seasons of the British fantasy drama Primeval.

He is a multi-instrumentalist whose work covers a wide spectrum, from large orchestral scores to ambient guitar-based music, such as that written for the Scottish BAFTA-winning film Summer.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Composer

2026 3.5
The Damned

The Damned

Composer

2025 3.5
Apocalypse Clown

Apocalypse Clown

Composer

2023
Evil Dead Rise

Evil Dead Rise

Composer

2023 4.0
The Cellar

The Cellar

Composer

2022
The Hole in the Ground

The Hole in the Ground

Composer

2019 3.0
Savage

Savage

Composer

2009
The Ten Steps

The Ten Steps

Composer

2004