Henry Mancini

Birthday: April 16th, 1924 Date of Death: June 14th, 1994

From Wikipedia

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 –

June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best

remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the

greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden

Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement

Award in 1995.

His best known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The

Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme") and the theme to

the Peter Gunn television series. The Peter Gunn theme won the first Grammy

Award for Album of the Year. Mancini also had a long collaboration on film

scores with the film director Blake Edwards.