Lalo Schifrin
Born: 1932-06-21 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: 2025-06-26
Known For: Sound
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
2024
2023
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
- Eastwood Symphonic ... (Music)
- Lalo Schifrin, Mission: Impossible - Conducted by Victor Jacob ... (Compositor)
2022
- Piano Cinéma ... (Original Music Composer)
- Romantic Mysticism: The Music of Billy Goldenberg as Self - Composer
2019
- Boléro, le refrain du monde as Self
- Bolero: A Global Hit as Self
2018
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
2017
- Tango under the Stars - Gustavo Dudamel as Self - Composer
2015
- Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Richard Glazier: From Broadway to Hollywood as Self
- Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick' as Self
2013
- Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies as Self - Participant
2012
- In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin as Self
2011
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Hollywood in Vienna as Self
2008
2007
- Rush Hour 3 ... (Original Music Composer)
2006
- Mission: Impossible III ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Abominable ... (Original Music Composer)
2004
- After the Sunset ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey ... (Original Music Composer)
- Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' as Self
- Blood and Steel: The Making of Enter the Dragon as Self
2003
- Bringing Down the House ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
- Red Dragon as Conductor
2001
- Rush Hour 2 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Longshot ... (Original Music Composer)
2000
- Mission: Impossible II ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
1998
- Rush Hour ... (Original Music Composer)
- Tango ... (Original Music Composer)
- Something to Believe In ... (Conductor)
1997
- Money Talks ... (Original Music Composer)
1996
- Mission: Impossible ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Scorpion Spring ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- Manhattan Merengue ... (Original Music Composer)
1994
- The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 as Self - Guest Conductor
1993
- The Beverly Hillbillies ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes ... (Music)
1991
- A Woman Named Jackie ... (Original Music Composer)
- F/X2 ... (Original Music Composer)
1990
- Face to Face ... (Music)
1989
- Return from the River Kwai ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Neon Empire ... (Original Music Composer)
- Original Sin ... (Music)
1988
- Berlin Blues ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mission: Impossible ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- The Dead Pool ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shakedown on the Sunset Strip ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Silence at Bethany ... (Music)
- Cantos Aztecas as Self - Conductor
1987
- Le monde est à vous as Self
- The Fourth Protocol ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sparky's Magic Piano ... (Original Music Composer)
- Out on a Limb ... (Original Music Composer)
1986
- Black Moon Rising ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Ladies Club ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kung Fu: The Movie ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beverly Hills Madam ... (Original Music Composer)
- Triplecross ... (Original Music Composer)
1985
- Bad Medicine ... (Original Music Composer)
- A.D. ... (Original Music Composer)
- The New Kids ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mean Season ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hollywood Wives ... (Original Music Composer)
- Command 5 ... (Music)
- Private Sessions ... (Original Music Composer)
- Terror at London Bridge ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- Sudden Impact ... (Original Music Composer)
- Doctor Detroit ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Osterman Weekend ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sting II ... (Original Music Composer)
- Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land ... (Original Music Composer)
- Princess Daisy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess ... (Original Music Composer)
1982
- Fast-Walking ... (Original Music Composer)
- Victims ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Seduction ... (Original Music Composer)
- Class of 1984 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Amityville II: The Possession ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Stranger Is Watching ... (Original Music Composer)
- Falcon's Gold ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wait Until Dark ... (Music)
1981
- Caveman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Buddy Buddy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Loophole ... (Original Music Composer)
- Chicago Story ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Skin ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Fridays of Eternity ... (Songs)
1980
- Brubaker ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Competition ... (Original Music Composer)
- Serial ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Big Brawl ... (Original Music Composer)
- When Time Ran Out... ... (Original Music Composer)
- Back to the Planet of the Apes ... (Theme Song Performance)
- The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Nude Bomb ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- Boulevard Nights ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Concorde... Airport '79 ... (Original Music Composer)
- Escape to Athena ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Amityville Horror ... (Original Music Composer)
- Love and Bullets ... (Music)
- Institute for Revenge ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- The Manitou ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nunzio ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Cat from Outer Space ... (Original Music Composer)
- The President's Mistress ... (Original Music Composer)
- Return from Witch Mountain ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Nativity ... (Original Music Composer)
1977
- Rollercoaster ... (Original Music Composer)
- Telefon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Day of the Animals ... (Original Music Composer)
- Good Against Evil ... (Original Music Composer)
1976
- The Eagle Has Landed ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sky Riders ... (Original Music Composer)
- St. Ives ... (Original Music Composer)
- Voyage of the Damned ... (Original Music Composer)
- Most Wanted ... (Music)
- Special Delivery ... (Original Music Composer)
1975
- Foster & Laurie ... (Music)
- Starsky & Hutch ... (Original Music Composer)
- Delancey Street: The Crisis Within ... (Music)
- The Master Gunfighter ... (Original Music Composer)
- Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case ... (Original Music Composer)
- Up From The Ape ... (Music)
1974
- Night Games ... (Music)
- Golden Needles ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Four Musketeers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Man on a Swing ... (Original Music Composer)
1973
- Magnum Force ... (Original Music Composer)
- Charley Varrick ... (Original Music Composer)
- Enter the Dragon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hit! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hunter ... (Music)
- Harry in Your Pocket ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Neptune Factor ... (Original Music Composer)
1972
- Joe Kidd ... (Original Music Composer)
- Prime Cut ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Wrath of God ... (Original Music Composer)
- Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rage ... (Original Music Composer)
1971
- Earth II ... (Original Music Composer)
- THX 1138 ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Beguiled ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dirty Harry ... (Original Music Composer)
- Escape ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pretty Maids All in a Row ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mrs. Pollifax — Spy ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Hellstrom Chronicle ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Christian Licorice Store ... (Original Music Composer)
1970
- The Aquarians ... (Music)
- Kelly's Heroes ... (Original Music Composer)
- WUSA ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Mask of Sheba ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Love My Wife ... (Original Music Composer)
- Imago ... (Music)
- A Long Way from Nowhere ... (Music)
1969
- Che! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob ... (Original Music Composer)
- Eye of the Cat ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Young Lawyers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Operation Heartbeat ... (Music)
1968
- Bullitt ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Brotherhood ... (Original Music Composer)
- Coogan's Bluff ... (Original Music Composer)
- Hell in the Pacific ... (Original Music Composer)
- Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sol Madrid ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ... (Original Music Composer)
1967
- The Fox ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cool Hand Luke ... (Original Music Composer)
- How I Spent My Summer Vacation ... (Original Music Composer)
- Who's Minding the Mint? ... (Original Music Composer)
- The President's Analyst ... (Conductor)
- The Venetian Affair ... (Original Music Composer)
1966
- Mission: Impossible ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Murderers' Row ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blindfold ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Deal In Danger ... (Original Music Composer)
- Way... Way Out ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Doomsday Flight ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Making of the President: 1964 ... (Music)
- A Small Rebellion ... (Music)
1965
- Dark Intruder ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Cincinnati Kid ... (Original Music Composer)
- Once a Thief ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Liquidator ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Background Beat as Self
1964
- Joy House ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rhino! ... (Original Music Composer)
- See How They Run ... (Original Music Composer)
1961
- Jazz Casual as Self - Piano
1958
- The Boss ... (Original Music Composer)
1957
- Venga a bailar el rock ... (Music)