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Lalo Schifrin (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlalo ˈʃifɾin]; born Boris Claudio Schifrin; June 21, 1932 – June 26, 2025) was an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He was best known for his large body of film and television scores, which incorporate jazz and Latin American musical elements alongside traditional orchestration. Schifrin's best known compositions include the themes from Mission: Impossible (1966) and Mannix (1967), as well as the scores to Cool Hand Luke (1967), Bullitt (1968), THX 1138 (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979) 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 film series. He composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004. Schifrin was a five-time Grammy Award winner; he was nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy Awards. In 2019, he received an Honorary Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in recognition of his successful career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lalo Schifrin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Lalo Schifrin
Composer
for Composer in Getting Rid of Mr. Straker (1976)
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After MI5 Agent John Cossett (George Lazenby) goes missing while on a mission. His superior Jonathan Kingsley (David Niven) assigns up-and-coming agent Rod Straker (Roger Moore) to track down Cossett's whereabouts, despite Straker's fear of heights, clumsiness and not being able to shoot strait. When Straker finds Cossett's dead body in a cave near Italy, Kingsley decides to pass over John Cossett's mission to Straker instead, so Kingsley decides to train Straker in all that is needed to handle the mission, such as playing poker, getting into car chases, fighting henchmen, etc with the help of Kingsley's assistants, Kathy Martin (Jaclyn Smith) and Ellie Moore (Farrah Fawcett) . Straker then is assigned to investigate Cesare Magnesco (Orson Welles), who is suspected to be behind a global crime ring, and planning to sterilize the entire Earth, then personally repopulate the planet with beautiful women he has kidnapped and is holding in suspended animation. The only way for Straker to find more about Magnesco's plans is through his mistress, Alice Wood (Raquel Welch), who is unaware of Magnesco's ambitions.
