OBITUARY: Legendary Cinema Composer Lalo Schifrin Passed Away At Age of 93

sound tracks for scores of films

BREVARD COUNTY • FLORIDA — Sad news from the world of cinema. Composer Lalo Schifrin has passed away at the age of 93.

Schifrin’s best known compositions included the themes from the tv series:

● Mission: Impossible,

● Mannix

● Planet of the Apes

● Starsky and Hutch

He also composed sound tracks for scores of films, including:

●  Dark Intruder (1965)

● Cool Hand Luke (1967)

● Bullitt (1968)

● Eye of the Cat (1969)

● THX 1138 (1971)

● Enter the Dragon (1973)

● The Four Musketeers (1974)

● Voyage of the Damned (1976)

● The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

● Day of the Animals (1977)

● The Manitou (1978)

● The Amityville Horror (1979)

● Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

●  Class of 1984 (1984)

● The Rush Hour trilogy (1998–2007)

Schifrin was also noted for collaborations with Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s, particularly the Dirty Harry series of films.

He composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004.

His final work was the main title theme for the anthology horror film Tales of Halloween (2015).

He was a five-time Grammy Award winner; he was nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy Awards.

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