Film score composer Leonard Rosenman died yesterday at the age of 83.
Rosenman, a two-time Oscar winner (first for his underscore work on Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and then the following year for Best Song in 1976's Bound for Glory. He died of a heart attack at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, CA.
He scored the 1955 classics East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause-The war epic Pork Chop Hill
He also worked on a few notable sc-fi flicks like Fantastic Voyage in 1966, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and its sequel Battle for the Planet of the Apes...Oscar came calling again in 1983’s Cross Creek...
For me though, it's his Oscar nominated work on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home that I will remember most. His ability to score the film's many lighter moments without turning the music into pure camp-and yet still retain the the spirit and power of Trek-Not an easy feat by any means...
Read the obituary in Variety for more on Rosenman and his TV work...
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