{"id":862977,"date":"2025-07-16T22:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/mission-impossible-composer-lalo-schifrin-dies-at-93-media-reports-say-world-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:12:40","slug":"mission-impossible-composer-lalo-schifrin-dies-at-93-media-reports-say-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/mission-impossible-composer-lalo-schifrin-dies-at-93-media-reports-say-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission: Impossible composer Lalo Schifrin dies at 93, media reports say, World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Argentine musician Lalo Schifrin, composer of the memorable Mission: Impossible theme and the scores for dozens of Hollywood movies and TV shows, has died at age 93, media outlets reported on Thursday (June 26).<\/p>\n<p>Schifrin&#8217;s son, William, confirmed his father&#8217;s death, The Hollywood Reporter said. An agent for Schifrin did not immediately respond to an e-mail from Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Buenos Aires, Schifrin became a fan of American jazz in his teens. He was also a pianist and conductor.<\/p>\n<p>Schifrin received six Oscar nominations for movie scores that included the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke and The Amityville Horror in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>He won four Grammys, including one for the Mission: Impossible theme set to an unconventional 5\/4 time signature. The song was written for the CBS television spy drama that debuted in 1966 and became a blockbuster film franchise still running today.<\/p>\n<p>Schifrin received an honorary Oscar for his lifetime of work in 2018. Clint Eastwood presented him with the award.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:718013]]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Larisa Pepper<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/world\/mission-impossible-composer-lalo-schifrin-dies-93-media-reports-say\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine musician Lalo Schifrin, composer of the memorable Mission: Impossible theme and the scores for dozens of Hollywood movies and TV shows, has died at age 93, media outlets reported on Thursday (June 26). Schifrin&#8217;s son, William, confirmed his father&#8217;s death, The Hollywood Reporter said. An agent for Schifrin did not immediately respond to an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1076,1075],"tags":[10620,6055],"class_list":{"0":"post-862977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-impossible","8":"category-mission","9":"tag-impossible","10":"tag-mission"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}