- Simon Park was born on March 13, 1946 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK. He is a composer, known for Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998), Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Spun (2002).
- Park co-wrote "Distant Hills", which was used as the theme tune to the television series Crown Court, and wrote the music for the 1972 ITV mystery quiz Whodunnit?, for Cross Country Go, a B movie made by British Movietone News in 1974, and incidental music for the wartime TV series Danger UXB.
- He studied at Worcester College, Oxford where he gained a Bachelor of Arts in music.
- Park appeared in an episode of Bargain Hunt which aired in 2017.
- The Simon Park Orchestra is a group which is most notable for producing the instrumental "Eye Level", the theme tune for the television series Van der Valk composed by Jan Stoeckart which spent four weeks at the number one position in the UK Singles Chart in September 1973.
- He also composed music for the De Wolfe music library, some of which was used in films such as Eskimo Nell (1975), and composed the score for the film Nutcracker (1982).
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