Lalo SchifrinFilmography

Born:: June 21, 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score)
Biography:: Composer Lalo Schifrin, the son of a concertmaster of the Teatro Colón, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Schifrin was a child prodigy and after spending his formative years studying with his father, traveled to Paris to study classical music and jazz. In 1955, he represented his country in the...Read More

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Rush Hour 3

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: In this third installment of the popular action comedy franchise, LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) book a flight for Europe and prepare to clean up the streets of Paris after discovering that Chinese triads have extended their criminal influence to Read More

8/10/07
Mission: Impossible III

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan

Synopsis: The third entry in Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible film series involves super Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) being forced back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). The agency asks Hunt to save an operative (Keri Russell Read More

5/5/06
Abominable

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Matt McCoy, Hayley Joel, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: With 42,000 sightings in 68 countries, the elusive woodland creature known as Sasquatch, Yeti, and Bigfoot is one of the most enduring natural mysteries ever known to man. Hunted by humans for hundreds of years, the formerly reclusive man-like beast strikes out against his would-be captors in a Read More

4/14/06
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert De Niro, F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Thornton Wilder's award-winning novel is given a lavish screen adaptation in this historical drama from writer and director Mary McGuckian. In Peru in 1714, a rickety bridge collapsed as five people were attempting to cross, forcing them to plunge to their deaths. Brother Fray Juniper (Gabriel Byrne Read More

6/10/05
After the Sunset

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris

Synopsis: In this caper movie from director Brett Ratner, two brilliant criminals are lured out of retirement...or are they? Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) is a master jewel thief who, with the help of his accomplice and lover Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), has stolen two of the three Napoleon diamonds, among Read More

11/12/04
Bringing Down the House

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Jean Smart

Synopsis: A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a lawyer who is having trouble getting his life back on track after his wife, Kate (Jean Smart), divorces him; he's also adjusting to his new status as a Read More

3/7/03
Rush Hour 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Zhang Ziyi, Roselyn Sanchez

Synopsis: A surprise box-office smash spawns this inevitably action-packed buddy comedy follow-up that reunites director Brett Ratner with stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Chan is Chief Inspector Lee of the Royal Hong Kong Police, who travels back to China with his American colleague, Los Angeles Read More

8/3/01
Mission: Impossible II

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Director John Woo brings Hong Kong-style martial arts action to this comic book-flavored sequel that eschews the complicated plot and political maneuverings of its predecessor in favor of pure, adrenaline-charged thrills. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, an operative for the top-secret government Read More

5/24/00
Lalo Schifrin & Placido Domingo: Cantos Aztecas

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Conductor

1999
Cantos Aztecas: Songs of the Aztecs

Crew: Conductor

Synopsis: Composer Lalo Schifrin developed an interest in the indigenous culture of Mexico during his frequent appearances as guest conductor with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico. While in Mexico, Schifrin encountered the poetry of Nexahuacoyotl, a 12th Century Aztec prince, and he believed that the Read More

1999
Rush Hour

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Peña, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: Brett Ratner directed this action-comedy that found box-office success by teaming Chris Tucker with Jackie Chan -- performing his own stunts as per his earlier films. As the story begins, Hong-Kong supercop Lee's (Chan), detective savvy leads to the confiscation of $500 million in weapons, drugs Read More

9/18/98
Something to Believe In

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: William McNamara, Maria Pitillo, Tom Conti, Maria Schneider, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: Lew Grade is the executive producer of this British-German co-production, a romantic drama that gets underway in Las Vegas with several casino cameos (Robert Wagner, Roddy McDowall, Jill St. John, William Hootkins). Lymphoma leaves Vegas croupier Maggie (Maria Pitillo) only a few weeks to live, so Read More

1998
Tango

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Mía Maestro, Juan Carlos Copes, Julio Bocca, Juan Luis Galiardo

Synopsis: Combining fiction and documentary, 66-year-old Carlos Saura directed this Spanish-Argentine dance drama with masterful camerawork by acclaimed cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. After his wife (Cecilia Narova) leaves him, Argentine film director Mario Suarez (Miguel Angel Sola), moves to a Buenos Read More

1998
Money Talks

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Gerard Ismael, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: A low-level criminal and a struggling newsman become unlikely partners in this comedy. Franklin Hatchett (Chris Tucker) is a fast-talking hustler who runs a small time ticket-scalping business. A TV news story by reporter James Russell (Charlie Sheen) brings Franklin's business to the attention of Read More

1997
Mission: Impossible

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno

Synopsis: After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its name from the familiar television series, director Brian DePalma's big-budget adaptation shares little more Read More

5/22/96
Scorpion Spring

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alfred Molina, Patrick McGaw, Esai Morales, Angel Aviles, Rubén Blades

Synopsis: This violent crime drama has its dramatic roots in old spaghetti westerns. It is set in a small southwestern town on the US-Mexican border. The ordeal begins as a lone Frenchman hitchhikes. He is boorish, misogynistic actor Denis Brabant who was dumped there by his lover after he informed her of Read More

1995
Manhattan Merengue

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: This romantic musical drama centers on handsome mambo dancer Miguel as he endeavors to get a U.S. visa and leave the Dominican Republic. After numerous rejections, the desperate Miguel stows away on a cargo plane to Puerto Rico where he teams up with an Italian, Carmello, who has come to find a Read More

1995
A Celebration of Christmas

Crew: Screenwriter

1995
Christmas in Vienna

Crew: Musical Arrangement

Synopsis: Diana Ross, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras are backed on stage by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in this Christmas concert captured live at the Vienna Rathaus in December 1992. Featured songs include "The Gift of Love," "Ave Maria," "If We Hold on Together," and "Mille Cherubini in Coro." Read More

1993
The Beverly Hillbillies

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider, Jim Varney

Synopsis: Penelope Spheeris directed this compulsively faithful film adaptation of the popular 1960s television series. The familiar story 'bout a man named Jed Clampett (Jim Varney), a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed, continues to follow the TV show's format. Jed discovers oil on his Read More

1993
Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin

Actors: Lalo Schifrin

Synopsis: This documentary profiles renowned pianist, composer, and conductor Lalo Schifrin. Over the years Schifrin has written the scores for a multitude of film and television soundtracks, including Mission Impossible, Cool Hand Luke, and Bullitt. In addition, he has performed in and conducted jazz Read More

1993
F/X 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin, Joanna Gleason, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: In F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion, Bryan Brown returns as movie special effects designer Rollie Tyler. Having barely escaped with his life after being duped and exploited by the villains in the first F/X, he isn't too eager to channel his talents into police work again. He'd much rather design Read More

5/10/91
Face to Face

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: Face to Face stars real-life companions Elizabeth Montgomery and Robert Foxworth as a headstrong pair who clash in the Cradle of Civilization. Montgomery is a paleontologist, searching for the oldest fossil of man yet to be unearthed. Foxworth is a meerschaum miner, to whom the Kenyan government Read More

1990
Berlin Blues

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Julia Migenes, Keith Baxter, Jose Coronado, Javier Garruchaga, Gerardo Vera

Synopsis: Lola (Julia Migenes) is an American singer in a Berlin nightclub who falls for the East German pianist David (Jose Coronado) in this romantic drama. Their love affair is interrupted by Professor Huessler (Keith Baxter), the dedicated orchestra conductor who sends David back East. Huessler and Lola Read More

8/25/89
Original Sin

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this drama, a distraught Mid-Western housewife is positive that her husband's father, a crime lord, kidnapped her son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Little White Lies

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ann Jillian, Tim Matheson, Suzie Plakson

Synopsis: Little White Lies is a frenetic TV-movie hark bark to the "screwball comedies" of yore. Ann Jillian plays a just-getting-by Philadelphia policewoman who poses as a wealthy CEO because she's sick of "lady cop" jokes. Tim Matheson portrays a rich doctor who poses as a poverty-stricken orderly Read More

1989
The Neon Empire

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Novelist/journalist Pete Hammill was responsible for the screenplay of the two-part TV movie The Neon Empire. Ray Sharkey stars as a Bugsy Siegel-like New York gangster. It is Sharkey's dream to turn the sleepy Nevada town of Las Vegas into the gambling capital of the world. Part One, running 105 Read More

1989
The Dead Pool

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Evan Kim, Liam Neeson, David Hunt

Synopsis: The Dead Pool is the fifth and (thus far) the last of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry movies. A sports pool is placing bets on which famous person will die next. Suddenly a serial killer who preys upon celebrities enters the scene, radically (and perhaps deliberately) changing the odds in the pool. Read More

7/13/88
Silence at Bethany

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mark Moses, Susan Wilder, Tom Dahlgren, Dakin Matthews, Richard Fancy

Synopsis: Together with Happy as the Grass was Green, Silence at Bethany is one of the few feature films to deal with life among the Mennonites. Mark Moses plays Ira Martin, who grew up in a Mennonite community in the 1930s but left to live with out-of-town relatives when his parents were accidentally Read More

1988
Earth*Star Voyager, Part 1

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Part one of Earth*Star Voyager was first telecast January 17, 1988, on the Disney Sunday Movie anthology. The year is 2088: the Earth*Star Voyager blasts off on a 26-year-misson to find another planet able to support life. The space vessel's crew consists largely of teenagers (the oldest Read More

1988
Earth Star Voyager

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1988
Shakedown on the Sunset Strip

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this crime drama set in LA during the '40s, an infamous Hollywood madam is arrested and mayhem ensues as the names of her famous patrons, among them government officials and policemen, are revealed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Little Sweetheart

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Hurt, Karen Young, Cassie Barasch, Ellie Raab, Barbara Bosson

Synopsis: Nine-year-old Thelma (Cassie Barasch) is the sweet little girl next door who engages in blackmail, robbery, and murder in this amoral melodrama. Neighbor Robert (John Hurt) is a bank employee who leaves his wife for Delores (Karen Young) after he embezzles money from work. He tries to bribe Thelma Read More

1988
The Fourth Protocol

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Betsy Brantley, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: Scripted by Frederick Forsyth from his own novel, The Fourth Protocol is a fact-based spy thriller. The titular protocol is a secret agreement between America, Britain and Russia to cease smuggling nuclear weapons into their respective countries. This figures into the schemes of several rogue Read More

8/28/87
Out on a Limb

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Charles Dance, John Heard, Anne Jackson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Actress/author Shirley MacLaine described her 1983 book Out on a Limb as the tale of her "personal spiritual quest." In this two-part TV-movie adaptation of the book, MacLaine plays herself, meeting the emotional challenge of passing 40 by entering into an affair with a Socialist member of the Read More

1987
The Ladies Club

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Karen Austin, Diana Scarwid, Christine Belford, Bruce Davison, Shera Danese

Synopsis: A rare attempt by a female director to attack the issue of rape from a woman's perspective, this drama is sure to cause varied reactions. A sense of the film's perspective can be garnered from paraphrasing its publicity: "Rapists have two problems and the 'Ladies Club' is about to remove them Read More

4/11/86
Black Moon Rising

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Ving

Synopsis: A John Carpenter story served as the launching pad for Black Moon Rising. Veteran thief Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) is hired by the FBI to steal some politically volatile computer tapes. The owners of the tapes are displeased, and begin chasing Quint all over the countryside. Just when he's about to Read More

1/10/86
Kung Fu: The Movie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Carradine, Brandon Lee, Kerrie Keane, Mako, Martin Landau

Synopsis: This 2-hour revival of the old David Carradine TV series was originally titled simply Kung Fu. Set in the west of the late 19th century, the film stars Carradine as Caine, the mystical Chinese-American priest who wanders the countryside seeking spiritual fulfillment-and occasionally busting a few Read More

1986
Beverly Hills Madam

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: Faye Dunaway stars as a successful madam who is faced with difficulties from her "girls" in this made-for-TV movie. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
The Mean Season

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Bradford

Synopsis: Canadian actor/director Philip Borsos made a couple of interesting films before an untimely death in his early forties, including The Grey Fox (1982) and this crime thriller starring Kurt Russell as police beat reporter Malcolm Anderson. Happily abandoning the Miami Daily for which he's labored Read More

1985
A.D.

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman

Synopsis: Filmed in Tunisia on a budget of 30 million dollars, the five-part, 12-hour miniseries A.D. was the final installment in a historical trilogy which included Moses the Lawgiver and Jesus of Nazareth. Covering the years 30 to 69 A.D., the teleplay, co-written by Anthony Burgess, chronicled the Read More

1985
Bridge Across Time

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Hasselhoff

Synopsis: The story of Jack The Ripper may be the cause of a small town's crime spree in this strange made-for-television thriller. David Hasselhoff stars as Don Gregory, a cop in an Arizona town whose claim to fame is being the home of the newly transplanted pieces of the original London Bridge. When the Read More

1985
Hollywood Wives

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jackie Collins, the steamy ABC TV minseries Hollywood Wives began its three-evening run on February 17, 1985. Advertised with the teaser "If you think nothing can shock you anymore," part one got things up and running by introducing the central players, among them Elaine Read More

1985
Private Sessions

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this drama, the failed pilot for a TV series, a psychologist endeavors to balance his turbulent personal life, with those of his troubled patients. Unfortunately, he tends to get equally personally involved in both and trouble ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Command 5

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This action movie chronicles the exciting exploits of a crack crime fighting force. They are notorious for their unusual tactics when dealing with criminals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
The New Kids

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin, James Spader, John Philbin, David H. MacDonald

Synopsis: Abby (Lori Loughlin) and her brother, Loren (Shannon Presby), seem to have it all: good looks, lots of friends, and a great relationship with their loving mom and their heroic, discipline-minded military dad. When their folks are killed in a car crash, however, the siblings must move to small-town Read More

1985
Triplecross

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ted Wass, Markie Post, Gary Swanson

Synopsis: A trio of rich ex-cops begin to investigate a murder involving baseball and gangsters. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Bad Medicine

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin, Julie Hagerty, Bill Macy, Curtis Armstrong

Synopsis: A couple of med-school wannabes (Steve Guttenburg and Julie Hagerty) can't get admitted to any U.S. medical schools so they end up in a small Central American school run by a dictator director (Alan Arkin). When the students become aware of the medical needs of the local peasants, they swipe drugs Read More

1985
Spraggue

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1984
Spraggue - "Murder for Two"

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A doctor with a lousy track record when it comes to cardiac patients rouses the suspicions of a Boston professor whose hobby is detective work. The professor is assisted by his eccentric auntie. The film is an unaired pilot for a failed television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
The Osterman Weekend

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon

Synopsis: A man discovers that his best friends are actually spies -- or are they? -- in this thriller based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novel. John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) is the host of a television news show who once a year spends a long weekend with three of his best friends from college, Bernard Read More

1983
Sudden Impact

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Paul Drake

Synopsis: In this fourth installment of the Dirty Harry series, Harry has been banished temporarily from San Francisco because his superiors are uncomfortable about his feud with a local crime boss. He goes to an oceanside small town for a little rest and recuperation but finds the town has been traumatized Read More

1983
Tank

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Garner, G.D. Spradlin, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell

Synopsis: James Garner plays an Army officer who puts his hobby to practical use in Tank. Zach (James Garner) moves to a new post in a backwoods Georgia town. Accompanying him is his family --his wife LaDonna (Shirley Jones) and his son Billy (C. Thomas Howell)-- and his prize recreational activity --a Read More

1983
Princess Daisy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Paul Michael Glaser, Robert Urich, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: This melodrama is the second of a two part story based on a novel by Judith Krantz. In this episode, Daisy, the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie star, must leave college and begin looking for a job in New York so that she can pay her sister's enormous medical bills. ~ Sandra Read More

1983
Starflight One

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this taut, futuristic drama, the maiden voyage of a hypersonic passenger jet becomes a disaster when something goes terribly wrong and it gets stuck in orbit. The film is also known as Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lynda Carter

Synopsis: This is a made-for-TV bio about the film star Rita Hayworth. Lynda Carter stars as the legendary star. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1983
The Sting II

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: Although penned by the same screenwriter, David S. Ward, this sequel to The Sting (1973) is tarnished by comparisons to its predecessor. Jackie Gleason fills the shoes of Paul Newman as Harry Gondorff and Mac Davis slips into the Robert Redford role of Johnny Hooker, two con men pals whose latest Read More

1983
Doctor Detroit

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, T.K. Carter, Donna Dixon, Lynn Whitfield

Synopsis: A college professor (Dan Aykroyd is forced to go undercover as a Chicago pimp disguised by a bushy wig -- the height of hairlarity in this anemic comedy. When Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman) is hunted by his gangster rival, Mom (Kate Murtagh), he foists his bevy of hookers on the professor -- and Read More

1983
Amityville II: The Possession

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, James Olson, Jack Magner, Diane Franklin

Synopsis: Delving into the horrific history of the infamous Long Island haunted house, this prequel to 1979's popular chiller The Amityville Horror is loosely based on the DeFeo murders but is at heart a straightforward horror-exploitation film with an Exorcist twist. When the violently dysfunctional Read More

1982
A Stranger Is Watching

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kate Mulgrew, Rip Torn, James Naughton, Shawn Von Schreiber, Barbara Baxley

Synopsis: In this suspenseful made-for-television thriller a homicidal maniac kidnaps a young girl and a female television reporter and holds them hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
The Seduction

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Morgan Fairchild, Michael Sarrazin, Vince Edwards, Andrew Stevens, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: The Seduction a z-grade erotic thriller, tells the story of a TV newswoman spied upon and stalked by an obsessed fan. Jamie (Morgan Fairchild) is a beautiful, successful career woman. Derek (Andew Stevens) is an obsessed psychopath who watches her and attempts to become part of her life. When Read More

1982
Fast-Walking

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Woods, Tim McIntire, Kay Lenz, Robert Hooks, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: James Woods plays "Fast-Walking" Miniver, a strikingly amoral prison guard, in this dark, hard-hitting comedy/drama. When not smoking dope or scaring up customers for Evie (Susan Tyrrell), the proprietor of the local house of prostitution, Fast-Walking tries to keep order in an Oregon prison. Read More

1982
Falcon's Gold

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Marley, Simon MacCorkindale, Louise Vallance, Blanca Guerra, George Touliatos

Synopsis: In this average, made for pay-TV adventure yarn loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Challenger's Gold, the archaeologist Dr. Christopher Falcon (John Marley) is called away from a dig in an Arab country to assess a startling find in Mexico, with the usual dangerous results. When he arrives, he Read More

1982
La Pelle

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Ken Marshall

Synopsis: The Italian La Pelle was released in English-speaking countries as The Skin. Set in the twilight of World War 2, the film is a compendium of bitter recollections concerning the Allied liberation of Naples. These memories were originally bundled together in book form by Curzio Malaparte, played Read More

9/24/81
Buddy Buddy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets loose scatter-shot stingers at a wide range of pop-culture targets -- from sex clinics, to 60 Minutes, to movie references, to disco, to Betamax video recorders. Based on Read More

1981
Los Viernes De La Eternidad

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Thelma Biral, Héctor Alterio, Susana Campos

Synopsis: The Argentine Fridays of Eternity takes a simple romantic plot and gives it texture with a scintilla of fantasy. Thelma Biral and Hector Alterio are the lovers who pledge eternal devotion. In this case, eternity is not a affectionate exaggeration; it is, indeed, Eternity. Combining other-worldly Read More

1981
The Chicago Story

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The Chicago Story was the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV series. The wounding of a 10-year-old girl by a sniper is seen through the eyes of three sets of Chicago professionals. Vincent Baggetta and Craig T. Nelson are the defense and prosecuting attorneys respectively (they'd been Read More

1981
Victims

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this suspenseful horror movie, four rape victims team up to bring their brutal attacker to justice. He had been tried before on similar charges and acquitted on a technicality. Now the women, led by a determined young doctor are determined to make him pay for destroying their lives. Read More

1981
Class of 1984

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Perry King, Timothy Van Patten, Merrie Lynn Ross, Roddy McDowall, Al Waxman

Synopsis: A music teacher (Perry King) at a tough Los Angeles high school reaches out to his students with the gift of music -- only to find a gang of sadistic punk rockers is actively dissuading new members from joining the orchestra. Not only are the punkers sadistic; they are also led by the nefarious Timothy Van Patten Read More

1981
Caveman

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, Jack Gilford, John Matuszak

Synopsis: Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr plays a prehistoric, social outcast who, along with other misfits, forms his own tribe and finds various comic adventures. This spoof is mostly without dialogue besides the expected neanthropic grunt. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Loophole

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: This caper film stars Martin Sheen as Stephen Booker, an unemployed American architect in London who needs to jump-start his finances. Enter criminal mastermind Mike Daniels (Albert Finney), who gathers a group of thieves together to rob an impregnable London bank of millions by coming in through Read More

1981
The Competition

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker, Joseph Cali, Ty Henderson

Synopsis: Can two prodigies fall in love and stay in love, even when they are competing against one another in an international piano competition? Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving attempt to answer that question in The Competition. Richard Dreyfuss plays Paul Dietrich, a shabby prodigy slouching past the Read More

1980
Brubaker

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Synopsis: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker Read More

1980
When Time Ran Out

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons

Synopsis: After producer Irwin Allen highlighted the dangers of fire in the Towering Inferno and the dangers of water in the Poseidon Adventure, he is back to fire again but this time it is within the earth, at least for awhile. This fairly routine disaster film is set on a resort island with a volcano that Read More

1980
The Nude Bomb

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Don Adams, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Dana Elcar, Pamela Hensley

Synopsis: Maxwell Smart, the infamous Agent 86 from the '60s television sitcom Get Smart makes his feature-film debut in this goofy espionage spoof. This time, Smart and his cohorts must stop enemy spies from detonating a bomb that would destroy all the world's clothing. On television, the film was renamed Read More

1980
Battle Creek Brawl

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jackie Chan, José Ferrer, Kristine de Bell, Mako, Ron Max, Rosalind Chao

Synopsis: After the death of Bruce Lee in 1973, writer/director Robert Clouse made several attempts to reproduce the success of his Enter the Dragon, which belatedly made Lee a household name in America. Clouse felt (with good reason) that Jackie Chan could be the next big martial arts star in America, and Read More

1980
The Serial

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: There are no cliff-hanging moments in Serial, but there's plenty of laughs in this trenchant comedy comment on 1970s lifestyles. Martin Mull plays the father of a Marin County family that succumbs to every silly fad coming down the pike. Mull tries to distance himself from his family's idiocies Read More

1980
Escape to Athena

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: The original British version of Escape to Athena ran 125 minutes; American prints were judiciously cut to 101 minutes, emphasizing the action content and neutralizing the duller dialogue sequences. Roger Moore stars as Major Otto Hecht, an anti-Nazi German who presides over a World War II POW Read More

1979
Airport '79: Concorde

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy

Synopsis: The fourth Airport film may be the silliest of them all, as George Kennedy returns, this time co-piloting with Alain Delon. The plane is on its way to the Moscow Olympics, has a bomb on board, and gets fired upon with missiles that necessitate flying upside-down. A look at the cast list resembles Read More

1979
Institute for Revenge

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Hillerman

Synopsis: Big-time movie director Kenneth Annakin called the shots in this TV pilot film. "Institute for Revenge" is the nickname for a computer known as IFR 7000 (voice by John Hillerman). The computer is employed by a large foundation dedicated to righting wrongs, albeit nonviolently. Sam Groom, Lauren Hutton Read More

1979
Boulevard Nights

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Marta Du Bois, James Victor, Betty Carvalho

Synopsis: A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
The Amityville Horror

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Natasha Ryan, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: "For God's sake, GET OUT!" was the ad campaign for the 1979 shocker The Amityville Horror. The film was based on the allegedly true story of the luckless Lutz family, who move lock, stock, and barrel into a new home, only to find that it is possessed by the demonic spirits of its previous owners. Read More

1979
Love and Bullets

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charles Bronson, Rod Steiger, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Bradford Dillman, Michael Vincente Gazzo

Synopsis: Charles Bronson is out for revenge (and doesn't that sound familiar) in this action drama. Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger). When it looks as if Jackie's life is being threatened by Bomposa's goons, the FBI moves in to protect Read More

1979
The Cat from Outer Space

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, McLean Stevenson

Synopsis: Zunar J5/90 Doric 4-7, also known as Jake, is an alien cat who crash-lands on earth. He heads off to the nearest scientist to find gold ($120,000 worth!) in order to repair his spaceship. Jake reveals that he can predict the winners in sporting events and soon the military is trying to track him Read More

1978
Return From Witch Mountain

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Jack Soo

Synopsis: The Fury meets The Misadventures of Merlin Jones in this comic-book sequel to Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain. Reprising their roles as the psychic siblings from another world are Kim Richards as Tia and Ike Eisenmann as Tony. Their Uncle Bene (Denver Pyle) gives the kids a treat by letting them Read More

1978
The Nativity

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Julie Garfield

Synopsis: The Nativity is just what it says it is. This low-key retelling of the Biblical story of the birth of Christ stars Madeline Stowe as Mary and John V. Shea as Joseph. The network publicists assured the viewers that there would be as much emphasis on the "human love story" as the Birth itself. Also Read More

1978
The Manitou

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Jon Cedar

Synopsis: Low-budget horror director William Girdler's last film stars Susan Strasberg as Karen Tandy, a San Francisco woman who develops a strange growth on her neck. After an operation fails because the doctor is forced to cut his own hand, Karen seeks out an Indian shaman (Michael Ansara), who tells her Read More

1978
Nunzio

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David Proval, James Andronica, Morgana King, Tovah Feldshuh, Vincent Russo

Synopsis: In this touching tale, an amiable retarded delivery boy from Brooklyn works to help support his mother. Meanwhile his older brother keeps him safe from local punks; this sometimes creates turmoil for him as he must maintain a strong exterior to mask his love. While delivering his groceries, the Read More

1978
The President's Mistress

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Beau Bridges, Susan Blanchard, Larry Hagman, Karen Grassle, Don Porter, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Made for television, this little gem was based on a novel by Patrick Anderson. The title character, the sister of a government courier, barely has time to acquaint herself with the audience before she is murdered - leading us to wonder who did it, and if it is, in fact, true that the dead woman Read More

1978
Telefon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel

Synopsis: Don Siegel took over the directing chores from Peter Hyams on this taut cold war action film, based on the novel by Walter Wager. With the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union thawing, old KGB hard-liner Nicolai Dalchimsky (Donald Pleasence) activates a group of Americans who Read More

1977
Good Against Evil

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Good Against Evil might not have existed had not The Exorcist shown the way three years earlier. Dack Rambo and Elyssa Davalos star as sweethearts Andy Stuart and Jessica Gordon. The course of true love is messed up when Satan claims Jessica as his own personal property. Read More

1977
Rollercoaster

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Rollercoaster was a by-product of the brief "Sensurround" craze of the 1970s. Nutsoid Timothy Bottoms sabotages an amusement-park roller coaster, killing several innocent revelers. After several other acts of terrorism, Bottoms (whose character is credited as Young Man) presents his demands to the Read More

1977
Day of the Animals

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: An interesting low-budget entry in the post-Jaws animals-run-amok genre (which also owes more than a little to Hitchcock's The Birds), this noisy, violent thriller features the prophetic premise of a widening gap in the ozone layer (thanks to human indulgences in hairspray and other aerosol Read More

1977
Brenda Starr

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Dale Messick's inexplicably popular Brenda Starr has to be one of the lamest comic strips ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public; thus, any filmed version of the strip had nowhere to go but up. Jill St. John stars in this feature-length TV pilot film as plucky girl reporter Brenda Starr. While Read More

1976
Sky Riders

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Werner Pochath

Synopsis: In Sky Riders, the off-camera tale behind the film cast a more interesting story than the film itself: when a Greek electrician died during an explosion, the film's producer, Terry Morse Jr., was arrested by the Greek government, and executive producer Sandy Howard was detained in Greece for Read More

1976
Special Delivery

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bo Svenson, Cybill Shepherd, Tom Atkins, Sorrell Booke, Gerritt Graham

Synopsis: A botched robbery provides the basis of this romantic comedy. The caper was performed by three unemployed Vietnam vets desperate for cash. Unfortunately, two of them are captured during the getaway. The third vet continues to flee and stuffs the loot in a convenient mailbox. A dishonest barkeeper Read More

1976
The Eagle Has Landed

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk Read More

1976
St. Ives

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Ex-crime reporter turned novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) is drawn back into the world of his former profession by wealthy Abner Procane (John Houseman). St. Ives is hired to locate a stolen set of ledgers that, if made public, could trigger an all-out mob war. Amazingly, St. Ives fails Read More

1976
Voyage of the Damned

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

1976
Foster and Laurie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Given the title Foster and Laurie and the added fact that the protagonists are two cops, one might deduce that this TV movie was the pilot for a potential series. Not this time: The two leading characters are killed almost before the opening credits fade! In flashback, the film traces the Read More

1975
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Long before Dr. Richard Kimble's one-armed man, there was Dr. Sam Sheppard's "curly-headed man." On July 4, 1954, Dr. Sheppard's wife was found murdered in their Cleveland home. Sheppard, the prime suspect, insisted that he'd seen a man with curly hair fleeing from his home. No matter: he was Read More

1975
Delancey Street: The Crisis Within

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Walter McGinn

Synopsis: San Francisco's Delancey Street is the locale of a halfway house for ex-convicts, former drug users, and other society castaways. The founder of this operation is himself a paroled convict (Walter McGinn), who hopes to help others get back on their feet as he has. His touchiest assignment is the Read More

1975
The Four Musketeers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: This comic interpretation of Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure saga picks up where 1974's The Three Musketeers left off, as D'Artagnan (Michael York), Athos (Oliver Reed), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), and Porthos (Frank Finlay) scuttle the plans of Lady de Winter (Faye Dunaway) to remove Queen Read More

1975
Starsky & Hutch [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Antonio Fargas, Bernie Hamilton, Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul

1975
The Master Gunfighter

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Laughlin, Ron O'Neal, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Geo Anne Sosa, Barbara Carrera

Synopsis: After the success of his three Billy Jack films, actor, director, and screenwriter Tom Laughlin decided to expand his range a bit with this Western, which was adapted from Goyokin, a popular Japanese samurai film. However, since Finley (Laughlin's character here) is trained in martial arts and Read More

1975
Golden Needles

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alice Fong, Edgar Justice

Synopsis: This martial arts film has an interesting twist. The conflict is over a mythical 30-inch-tall statue with very special properties. Protruding from the sculpture are seven golden needles. If the needles are inserted into a man's body in the precisely right positions, he will become a sexual Read More

1974
Man on a Swing

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Dryden

Synopsis: Man on a Swing, purportedly based on a true case, is a puzzling crime thriller concerning a clairvoyant who helps find a murderer. After a murder is committed, supposed clairvoyant Franklin Wills goes to police Chief Lee Tucker (Cliff Robertson) and gives him details of the crime that he has seen Read More

1974
Night Games

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This suspense film is about a lawyer who defends a high-society woman charged with killing her husband. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Charley Varrick

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon

Synopsis: Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico. Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a Read More

1973
Harry in Your Pocket

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: James Coburn, Michael Sarrazin, Trish VanDevere, Walter Pidgeon, Michael Gwynne

Synopsis: In this engaging crime drama with an undercurrent of subtle humor, James Coburn stars as Harry, a "cannon" (a top-flight pickpocket), who works in association with Casey (Walter Pidgeon), an older career criminal with a fondness for cocaine. Ray (Michael Sarrazin) and Sandy (Trish Van Devere) are Read More

1973
The Hunter

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV pilot, a government agent must stop a rogue operative from releasing a lethal virus. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Hit!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles, Warren Kemmerling

Synopsis: In Sidney J. Furie's interminable caper film, Billy Dee Williams is a federal agent who takes matters into his own hands after the government refuses to do anything about French drug trafficking. After his daughter dies of an overdose of heroine and the authorities seem unconcerned, Nick Allen Read More

1973
Enter the Dragon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Shih Kien, Bob Wall

Synopsis: One of the most popular kung fu films ever, and perhaps the peak of the famed Bruce Lee's career, Enter the Dragon achieved success by presenting a series of superbly staged fighting sequences with a minimum of distractions. The story finds Lee as a martial-arts expert determined to help capture Read More

1973
Magnum Force

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, Felton Perry, David Soul

Synopsis: The second Dirty Harry movie, Magnum Force concerns itself with a vigilante group that has targeted notorious scofflaws for extermination. When a prominent gang boss or drug-runner is set free by the airheaded liberal courts, a covert group of "avengers" is soon on hand to blow the miscreant to Read More

1973
The Neptune Factor

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ed McGibbon, Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes, Chris Wiggens

Synopsis: A research facility becomes a death trap, and only an untested Navy vessel can save the day in this adventure drama. A team of scientists led by Hal Hamilton (Michael J. Reynolds) is studying marine life in an underwater research station called Sealab. Shortly before the Sealab crew are scheduled Read More

1973
Joe Kidd

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Stella Garcia

Synopsis: In John Sturges' Americanized version of Sergio Leone's Man-With-No-Name films, Clint Eastwood is Joe Kidd, a cryptic stranger who arrives in the New Mexican town of Sinola, where Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a peasant revolt against the local landowners, who Read More

1972
Prime Cut

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Ellison, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek

Synopsis: Michael Ritchie, better known for his gentle satires of American social institutions, enters Don Siegel territory in the unusual crime thriller Prime Cut. Lee Marvin is surly collection agent Nick Devlin, who is hired by Chicago racketeer Jake (Eddie Egan) to collect an overdue payment from Kansas Read More

1972
The Wrath of God

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Victor Eberg, Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth, John Colicos, Victor Buono

Synopsis: This misunderstood film is a satirical western, written, directed, and produced by Ralph Nelson, which he adapted from the book by James Graham (a pseudonym for Jack Higgins) In a restless Central American nation in the 1920s, Van Horne (Robert Mitchum), a defrocked American priest, hides a gun Read More

1972
To Be Free

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bubby Arett, Peter Cord, Dick Decoit, Morgan Evans, Paul Hernandez, Najila, Victoria Wales

Synopsis: In this erotic drama, a young woman tries to overcome her intense physical aversion to sexual intercourse. She does, and by the story's end participates in a wildly sensuous (and almost pornographic) sex orgy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Mission: Impossible: Season 07

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Halfway through its seventh and final season on CBS, Mission: Impossible moved from its 10:00 p.m. Saturday-night slot to an earlier berth on Friday evening. Nor was this the only change implemented during the series' terminal year on the air. Having sent the Impossible Missions Force all over the Read More

1972
Rage

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, Nicolas Beauvy

Synopsis: The second of actor George C. Scott's rare directorial efforts (his first being the 1970 television film The Andersonville Trial), this drama, produced at the height of the Vietnam War, was critical of the military's weapons testing. Scott stars as Dan Logan, a single father living with his Read More

1972
Pretty Maids All in a Row

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John Carson, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual revolution started moving into full swing and even a lot of Middle America, at least on the two coasts, admitted the existence of same revolution. It seems like the guys and Read More

1971
The Christian Licorice Store

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dawn Cleary, Louis DeFarra, Rusty Durrell, Bruce Graziano, Dido Renoir, Gary Rose

Synopsis: In this comedy a golden-boy tennis player in search of Life's meaning is corrupted by Hollywood, too much praise, and the temptation to sell out. His life therefore, becomes a metaphor for the morals of Hollywood society. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Mission: Impossible: Season 06

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Still being seen on Saturday nights -- albeit in a later time slot -- Mission: Impossible entered its sixth season with hopes that its ever-diminishing ratings (brought about by the defection of its two most popular regulars, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain) would take an upward turn. In this Read More

1971
THX 1138

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe

Synopsis: Based on his award-winning student short, George Lucas's debut feature cerebrally celebrates the possibility for individual freedom against all odds. In a 1984-esque white-washed future underground dystopia where sexuality is banned, all humans sport shaved heads and the same shapeless outfits as Read More

1971
Dirty Harry

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andy Robinson, John Larch

Synopsis: "You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for its "fascist" message about the power of one, as it also elevated Clint Eastwood to superstar status through his most enduring screen persona. Harry Callahan (Eastwood Read More

1971
The Hellstrom Chronicle

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Professor Hellstrom (Lawrence Pressman), a famous entomologist, is so shaken by the savagery and ferocity he sees in the world of predatory insects that he films this "documentary" to warn mankind that it is in danger. Included in the accompanying documentary footage are such spectacles as a war Read More

1971
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this drama, a freed-POW returns home and is further traumatized by his supposed friends, family and neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Escape

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher George, Marlyn Mason, Avery Schreiber, John Vernon, William Windom

Synopsis: The first of two TV movies bearing the title Escape, this 1971 film was the pilot for a potential series. Christopher George stars as Cameron Steele, a famous escape artist who solves crimes on the side. Steele and his faithful assistant Nicholas Slye (Avery Schreiber) tackle the case of a Read More

1971
Mrs. Pollifax -- Spy

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Synopsis: A widow finds her life unbearably dull and so becomes a volunteer CIA agent. She is sent to Mexico City for her first assignment and though her intentions are good, she ends up tossed into a jail. This was one of actress Rosalind Russel's final films and is sadly, considered among her very worst. Read More

1971
Earth 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The all-purpose science fiction title Earth 2 was utilized in 1971 for this TV pilot film. Producer/writers Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield consulted both NASA and the Rockwell Corporation to guarantee a modicum of authenticity for their futuristic teleplay. The story takes place in "Earth Read More

1971
Imago

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Barbara Douglas, Morgan Evans, Victoria Wales, Jenie Jackson

Synopsis: In this sex-oriented movie, described as "okay for skin houses where anything goes," Carole is a virgin who wants to overcome her resistance to being "normal." To that end, she employs the services of a psychiatrist who goes in for what were then (1970) the latest fads: psychodrama, encounter Read More

1970
Kelly's Heroes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Like M*A*S*H and Catch-22, both released the same year, this military comedy takes place in an earlier war but is really a thinly disguised treatise on the modern-day insanity and avariciousness then unfolding in Vietnam. Clint Eastwood stars as Kelly, a former lieutenant whose illusions about the Read More

1970
The Aquarians

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban heads a team of undersea explorers dealing in below-the-surface scientific research. At the moment, a mysterious pollutant is killing all the fish off the coast of a fictional East African nation. The cause is a sunken ship that is leaking a deadly nerve gas. Montalban must race Read More

1970
The Beguiled

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darlene Carr

Synopsis: The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Eastwood plays Corp. John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a prim-and-proper Southern girl's school run by Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page). Read More

1970
WUSA

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in New Orleans and hits up his old friend Farley (Laurence Harvey), a con man-turned-phony preacher, for a job. Farley is able to get Rheinhardt hired on as an announcer at a Read More

1970
Mission: Impossible: Season 05

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Season five of Mission: Impossible finds only two of the series' original regulars still in the cast: Greg Morris as the IMF team's electronics genius Barney Collier and Peter Lupus as muscle man Willie Armitage. Peter Graves, cast as IMF leader Jim Phelps, had been with the series since season two Read More

1970
I Love My Wife

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Angel Tompkins, Dabney Coleman, Leonard Stone

Synopsis: This romantic comedy finds Richard Burrows (Elliot Gould) as a medical student in residence engaged to marry the pregnant Jody (Brenda Vaccaro). When Jody abstains from sex and her mother moves in with the newlyweds, Richard engages in a series of love affairs with the hospital nurses. He meets Read More

1970
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter

Actors: Ian McShane, Anna Calder-Marshall, John Gavin, Severn Darden, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: This uneven comedy finds Fred (Ian McShane) as a writer living off his royalties in Italy. Married to the long-suffering Millie (Ann Calder-Marshall), Fred revels in a series of affairs with a bevy of Italian beauties. Millie soon grows tired of being alone and takes up with two Italian Don Juans (Sammy Pavel Read More

1970
Young Lawyers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1969
Che!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova, Robert Loggia, Woody Strode

Synopsis: In this badly misconceived pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary -- played, incredibly, by Omar Sharif -- Che Guevara takes up the cause as a rebel fighter under the direction of Fidel Castro, played -- also incredibly -- by Jack Palance. Guevara, a young Argentine doctor, proves Read More

1969
Mission: Impossible: Season 04

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Fans of Mission: Impossible greeted the start of the series' fourth season with fear and trepidation. To be sure, the series was still second to none in serving up exciting action sequences and labyrinthine counterespionage plotlines. And, yes, most of the familiar cast members were still in Read More

1969
Eye of the Cat

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker, Tim Henry, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a Read More

1969
U.M.C.

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The initials stand for University Medical Center, where this TV movie was set (the University was actually UCLA, though not so named). The heads of the institution are Dr. Joseph Gannon (Richard Bradford), and Gannon's mentor and best friend Dr. Lee Forestman (Edward G. Robinson). Gannon performs Read More

1969
The Mask of Sheba

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Mask of Sheba was the pilot film for a potential TV series titled Quest. Eric Braeden, Stephen Young and Corinne Camacho play three daring adventurers with a predilection for archeology. They are hired to locate a missing safari in Ethiopia. The safari had been searching for an ancient Read More

1969
Coogan's Bluff

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff who has been sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). On arrival, he's forced to wait by NYPD detective Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb), who informs him that Ringerman is recovering from a bad Read More

1968
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes, Dolores Sutton, Susan Saint James

Synopsis: Mother Simplicia (Rosalind Russell) is the head nun at an all-girl school. Aided by the young Sister George (Stella Stevens), the two try to convert the wayward girls to prim and proper ladies with a solid religious foundation. Rosabelle (Susan St. James) and Marvel Ann (Barbara Hunter), are the Read More

1968
Bullitt

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Robert L. Pike's crime novel Mute Witness makes the transition to the big screen in this film from director Peter Yates. In one of his most famous roles, Steve McQueen stars as tough-guy police detective Frank Bullitt. The story begins with Bullitt assigned to a seemingly routine detail Read More

1968
The Brotherhood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas, Luther Adler, Susan Strasberg

Synopsis: In Martin Ritt's The Brotherhood, Kirk Douglas plays Frank Ginetta, an old-line Mafioso who resents the newer policies encouraged by his younger brother Vince (Alex Cord). Frank resists all attempts at modernizing his operation, whereupon Vince cajoles his father-in-law Dominick Bertolo (Luther Adler Read More

1968
Sol Madrid

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas, Rip Torn, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Sol Madrid isn't a western, as might be gathered, but a drug-ring melodrama. David McCallum shows up early in the film as a spaced-out junkie. But Man From UNCLE fans need not worry: McCallum is actually an undercover agent, looking for the source of heroin being trafficked by the Mafia. The top Read More

1968
Hell in the Pacific

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune

Synopsis: The entire cast of Hell in the Pacific consists of two high-powered international stars: Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. The time is World War II. A downed American marine pilot (Marvin), is stalked on a remote Pacific island by a Japanese navy officer (Mifune). The Japanese officer captures the Read More

1968
Mission: Impossible: Season 03

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: After two years of playing to respectable but not spectacular ratings, Mission: Impossible finally attained the gold ring in season three, when it was ranked as America's 11th most popular series by the A.C. Nielsen Company. At this point in time, the series' formula had been committed to memory Read More

1968
Who's Minding the Mint?

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) is a U.S. Mint employee who scrambles to recover $50,000 he accidentally destroyed in this underrated comedy of errors. After he mistakenly throws the money down the garbage disposal, a frantic Harry recruits retired mint employee Pop Gillis (Walter Brennan) to cook up a Read More

1967
The Fox

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood, Glyn Morris

Synopsis: Based on a novella by D.H. Lawrence, this drama concerns Jill (Sandy Dennis) and Ellen (Anne Heywood), a lesbian couple who live in a remote, snowbound cabin. While Ellen dominates the relationship, she has also grown dissatisfied and is no longer sure she wants to stay with Jill. When Paul (Keir Dullea Read More

1967
How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV crime melodrama, Robert Wagner plays a handsome ex-GI determined to wreak vengeance on millionaire Peter Lawford, who caused Wagner to suffer public humiliation. Getting himself invited for a cruise on Lawford's yacht, Wagner dallies with the millionaire's bikini-clad daughter Jill St. John Read More

1967
The Venetian Affair

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr, Karl Heinz Böhm, Ed Asner, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: In this spy thriller, Robert Vaughn, who then starring on TV's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., plays Bill Fenner, an ex-CIA agent who is called upon by his former boss, Frank Rosenfeld (Ed Asner), to investigate an apparent murder-suicide in Vienna. An American diplomat exploded a bomb at a peace Read More

1967
Sullivan's Empire

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Martin Milner, Linden Chiles, Don Quine, Clu Gulager, Arch Johnson

Synopsis: When wealthy landowner John Sullivan, Sr. Arch Johnson and his airplane pilot are reported missing in Brazil, Sullivan's three sons (Martin Milner, Linden Chiles, and Don Quine) begin to search for the missing men in the wilds of the Amazon jungle. They battle headhunters, jungle animals, and Read More

1967
The President's Analyst

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington, Jr.

Synopsis: The President's Analyst is James Coburn, whose position makes him privy to any number of delicate government secrets. Thus Coburn becomes a most desirable prize for several secret-agent organizations, including the CEA and the FBR (we know who these folks are really supposed to be, even though the Read More

1967
Cool Hand Luke

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the Read More

1967
Mission: Impossible: Season 02

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Season two of Mission: Impossible found a new man at the helm of the top-secret Impossible Missions Force: Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, replacing the first season's Steven Hill, who played Dan Briggs. At the time, there was much speculation in the industry over the reason for Hill's departure, with Read More

1967
The Liquidator

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: This James Bond parody brings a new sort of jet-set secret agent to the screen -- one who hates flying, is afraid to shoot people, and would rather stay at home! Col. Mostyn (Trevor Howard) is the head of a special branch of British intelligence who is appalled to discover that a number of his Read More

1966
Mission: Impossible: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Season one of Mission: Impossible finds Steven Hill heading the cast as Dan Briggs, head of the top-secret Impossible Missions Force. Issued instructions at the outset of each episode by that famous "self-destructing" tape recorder, Briggs proceeds to select the IMF operatives best suited to the Read More

1966
Murderers' Row

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory

Synopsis: Dean Martin reprises his role as Matt Helm, famed secret agent who is part James Bond and part Rat Packer, in Murderer's Row. The film concerns the nefarious plan of arch-villain Julian Wall (Karl Malden) to take over the world by kidnapping Dr. Norman Solaris (Richard Eastham), who has invented a Read More

1966
The Doomsday Flight

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a deadly bomb is concealed aboard a passenger jet in a devious plan to blackmail the airline company. With the bomb threatening to go off any minute, the passengers and crew aboard the plane must search to find and dismantle the deadly device. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

1966
I Deal in Danger

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Goulet, Christine Carère, Horst Frank, Donald Harron, Werner Peters

Synopsis: Robert Goulet plays David March, an American traitor living in Germany during World War II. Allowed to travel freely within the Nazi hierarchy, March is privy to secrets that would spell his doom were he on "our" side. What the Nazis don't know (but we do) is that March is on our side: he's a Read More

1966
Blindfold

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: In this offbeat mixture of espionage and slapstick comedy, Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) is a scientist working on secret military projects for the United States government. Vincenti is becoming increasingly unstable as he works in solitude in a backwater swamp; his superiors fear that he might Read More

1966
Way... Way Out

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Connie Stevens, Robert Morley, Dennis Weaver, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Comical chaos erupts when milquetoast astronaut Peter Mattemore (Jerry Lewis) and his bride-of-convenience and fellow astronaut (the government forced them to marry to avoid scandal) Eileen Forbes (Connie Stevens) are sent to a lunar space station, which they will share with a Russian couple, to Read More

1966
Once a Thief

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin, Jack Palance, John Chandler

Synopsis: Once a thief, always a thief. This is the sorry lot of Eddie (Alain Delon), an ex-convict who tries his best to go straight. He marries Kristine (Ann-Margret), who bears him a child. Seeking out a new start in San Francisco, Eddie is dogged by vengeful cop Vito (Van Heflin), who thinks that the Read More

1965
Dark Intruder

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Gilbert Green, Charles Bolender, Mark Richman, Judi Meredith

Synopsis: In this horror film, set in San Francisco during the Victorian age, a criminologist is often out-guessed by his little valet and a sensitive mandrake plant. He finds himself involved in a hellish situation when a disfigured wizard conjures up a demon to help him transfer his soul in to the perfect Read More

1965
Gone With the Wave

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1965
See How They Run

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this adventurous chase film, three orphans head for the US. Unbeknownst to them, they carry with them important information--information the man who killed their father is desperate to retrieve. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
The Cincinnati Kid

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid decides to challenge The Man (Edward G. Robinson), the reigning poker champ, who is in town for a private game. The Shooter (Karl Malden), another gambling pro, arranges a game Read More

1965
Rhino!

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Harry Guardino, Robert Culp, Shirley Eaton, Harry Mekela, George Lane

Synopsis: Ivan Tors, the man who made dolphins and grizzlies lovable with Flipper and Gentle Ben respectively, tries to make the magic happen for a different species in Rhino! Robert Culp and Harry Guardino play hunters without bullets, armed only with tranquilizer guns to defend themselves from African Read More

1964
Joy House

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright, André Oumansky, Sorrell Booke

Synopsis: Alain Delon stars as Marc, a small-time swindler and Casanova who finds himself on the hit-list of an American gangster. He escapes the first attempt on his life in Monte Carlo and hides out serving as a chauffeur for the married Barbara (Lola Albright). Marc seems to have gotten into a bigger Read More

1964

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