27/06/2025
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, and Starsky and Hutch as well as the scores to the films 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) and 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.