Los Angeles/Buenos Aires, June 27 -- Acclaimed six-time Oscar nominated Argentinian-American composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for providing the music for making the theme of the original 'Mission: Impossible' TV series, 'Mannix', 'Starsky & Hutch', and 'Bullitt', died yesterday.
Aged 93, Schifrin, who received an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2018, died of pneumonia at a hospital in Los Angeles, his son Ryan Schifrin told The Hollywood Reporter. He lived for the past few decades in a Beverly Hills home once owned by Groucho Marx.
A native of Argentina whose father was the Buenos Aires Philharmonic concert master for more than three decades, Schifrin was well trained in classical music before being hooked on Ame...