The late Lalo Schifrin (6.21.32 — 6.26.25) was best known as the Mission: Impossible TV theme guy. From the ’60s through the aughts he was the guy you went to for suspenseful urban-razzmatazz music for your cop thriller or what-have-you. He scored some westerns for Clint Eastwood. His music was catchy in a pop-jazzy mid 20th Century way, but kinda TV level. Schifrin’s most interesting score was for THX-1138. Not to mention Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Enter the Dragon, The Four Musketeers, Voyage of the Damned, The Eagle Has Landed, The Amityville Horror, the Rush Hour trilogy and the Paramount Pictures fanfare (1976 to 2004).
