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Nicholas Sillitoe

English composer/music producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1985519 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nicholas "Nick" Sillitoe (born September 1971) is an English composer/music producer.

Based in Norway, Sillitoe won the 2015 Amanda Award for Best Music for the film Dirk Ohm.

Sillitoe has composed the music for the Norwegian TV-drama series Okkupert.

He is married to Velvet Belly singer Anne Marie Almedal.

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“Nicholas Sillitoe” enters the record as english composer/music producer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nicholas, Sillitoe and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-09-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nicholas, Sillitoe and English.
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“Nicholas Sillitoe” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nicholas, Sillitoe and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1985519. VIAF identifies the subject as 23586892. The Library of Congress control number is n85243497. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nicholas Sillitoe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.