Lalo Schifrin is Dead to Me

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Wow - interesting life story. Great, memorable music, RIP.

The theme to " Cool Hand Luke" - will always be in my head.

Let's not forget the wistful pavane he wrote for the character Milady de Winter, whom I played in The Four Musketeers, which I WAS WONDERFUL IN

Too many deaths this past week.

Susan Dey was just playing the theme to Mission Impossible earlier this wek. Maybe she's psychic.

Lalo Schifrin (born in Buenos Aires; 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 TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin American musical elements alongside traditional orchestrations. He was a five-time Grammy Award winner; he was nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy Awards.

Schifrin's best known compositions included the themes from Mission: Impossible and Mannix...

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.

“Mannix” theme song:

I used to dance with granny as a rugrat to the opening theme from Mannix!

I liked his score for the trashy Morgan Fairchild vehicle The Seduction. I'm surprised it was never released commercially; Varese Sarabande had an entire library dedicated to horror and exploitation soundtracks on vinyl. The Seduction would have fit right in

DL icon Dionne Warwick sings the pretty theme song but even during her late 70s-early 80s hit period it didn't get any kind of release.