Paul Wiffen Biography/Filmography

The first feature film Paul worked on was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner as he was employed by Vangelis on leaving Oxford University with a Master's Degree in Languages as a sound designer during the composition and recording of the soundtrack for this seminal film. Paul then worked as a musician, sound designer and music programmer for 20 years, doing more sound design work for Vangelis on The Bounty starring Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson, Liliana Cavani’s Francesco starring Mickey Rourke and another Ridley Scott masterpiece 1492: Conquest of Paradise as well as for Paul McCartney on the title song for John Landis' Spies Like Us. On a two year stint with Stevie Wonder, he programmed sounds and sequences for songs in Die Hard, Woman in Red and Jungle Fever and whilst in Los Angeles also worked with award-winning composers Mark Isham and Hans Zimmer. Peter Gabriel began to use him in Philip Noyce's Rabbit proof Fence Kenneth Branagh.