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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 Robert Altman's Shrek (1981)
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Starring John Belushi as the beloved, titular grumpy lovable ogre, along with Madeline Kahn, Peter Sellers, featuring the voices of Walter Williams as "Gingy" and Scatman Crothers as "Donkey". The success will began following with a a few sequels beginning with Belushi's replacement with John Candy after the second film in 1983, a year after his passing. Taking the fairy tale genre and making it into a satirical parody film, Altman began making a fairy-tale story of his own; The flick spawned three more sequels seen in the mid-80s.
