After portraying Ned East in the 1971 TV adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays and other roles in films such as The Big Sleep, Dover native Simon Turner quickly rose to fame as a teen star in Britain thanks to his mentor Jonathan King who released his first album in 1973 on UK Records.
In the 1980s, he released several singles on el Records as The King of Luxembourg, many of them having been given airplay by BBC Radio DJ John Peel. In 1990 he released a solo album on Creation Records.with a spoken text by Tilda Swinton
In the 1980s, Turner started to record film soundtracks, most notably for Derek Jarman's Caravaggio, The Last of England and The Garden. He also composed the complete score for William Eggleston in the Real World as well as for David Lynch produced film Nadja. Many of his soundtracks are released on CD, mainly on Mute Records whom he also made three solo albums for.
He continues to work with Mike Hodges and Cynthia Beatt. In 2009 he joined Tilda Swinton on a new film essay shot in Berlin and directed by Cynthia Beatt.
In 2002, he was a visiting professor at Braunschweig School of Art, Germany.
He has used several names as a recording artist, including Simon Fisher Turner, The King of Luxembourg, Deux Filles and Simon Turner. Simon Turner continues to record albums for Mute Records as Simon Fisher-Turner. In 2009, he produced the debut album of Polly Scattergood (Mute Records).
Simon Turner lives with his wife and two children in London.
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