You know his themes, they're all cool.



Yahoo! News - Concert Review: Lalo Schifrin: "LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It's been a good 40 years since he played a club in L.A., Lalo Schifrin told his intimate audience in the stalwart heart of Hollywood, and he might have said it's been a very good 40 years indeed since he left Dizzy Gillespie's sextet for an opulent career scoring other people's films and conducting symphony orchestras in his own brilliant works."



Films by Lalo Schifrin:



* The Cincincati Kid

* Cool Hand Luke

* The Fox

* Bullitt - the famous car chase in San Francisco uses no music, but the Bullitt theme music is well-known from the UK car advert with Steve McQueen

* Coogan's Bluff

* Hell in the Pacific

* Kelly's Heroes - also acting as musical director, and includes a song

* The Beguiled - another Clint Eastwood film, with a little martial music marking the civil war, and some subtle psychologicial music for the character interplay

* Dirty Harry 1, 2, 4, 5 - known as "Dirty Harry", "Magnum Force", "Sudden Impact", "The Dead Pool", No.3 "The Enforcer" had music by Jerry Fielding

* THX 1138

* Joe Kidd - another Clint Eastwood film, with music a bit like a pop spaghetti western

* Enter the Dragon

* The Eagle has Landed

* Voyage of the Damned

* Charley Varrick - typical Schifrin with bass and percussion and mood-setting tunes

* The Cat from Outer Space

* The Amityville Horror 1, 2 - the sequel being called "Amityville 2:The Possession"

* Brubaker

* The Competition

* Caveman

* Airplane 2: The Sequel - a song for this

* The Sting 2 - but original music and adaptation, with an Oscar nomination for Schifrin

* Return to the River Kwai - yet another sequel!

* F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion - Bill Conti did number 1

* Mission Impossible - the re-used and updated theme within the Danny Elfman soundtrack

* Rush Hour 1, 2 - easy action and plenty of hints to the Hong Kong/L.A. Chinatown locations



TV themes by Lalo Schifrin:



* Mission Impossible - the original cult series which has now spawned two movies

* Mannix