Biography
Lalo Schifrin was an Argentine-American composer, pianist, arranger and conductor. Born Boris Claudio Schifrin in Buenos Aires, he studied piano from childhood and later worked with Dizzy Gillespie before moving into film and television scoring in the 1960s.
He composed the theme for the television series Mission: Impossible (1966) and scores for films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Bullitt (1968), Dirty Harry (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979) and the Rush Hour trilogy (1998–2007). Schifrin also composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004 and collaborated with Clint Eastwood on several projects.
Schifrin won five Grammy Awards, received six Academy Award nominations and an Honorary Academy Award in 2018. He died in Los Angeles on 26 June 2025.
