Lalo Schifrin

Known for SoundBorn 1932-06-21Died 2025-06-26Buenos Aires, Argentina

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Delancey Street: The Crisis Within

Hunter

The Young Lawyers

A Small Rebellion

Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob

Venga a bailar el rock

Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon

A Woman Named Jackie

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Jazz Casual

El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes

The Groove Under the Groove

Foster & Laurie

The Silence at Bethany

Chicago Story

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Operation Heartbeat

Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Cool Hand Luke

The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

Mission: Impossible

Earth Star Voyager

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

The Nativity

Princess Daisy

Eastwood Symphonic

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Mission: Impossible

Dirty Harry

Enter the Dragon

Kelly's Heroes

Red Dragon

Rush Hour

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'

Charley Varrick

Mission: Impossible

Brubaker

Boulevard Nights

Magnum Force

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

Bullitt

Mission: Impossible III

Rush Hour 2

Who's Minding the Mint?

Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case