Basil Poledouris

Basil Poledouris
Background information
Birth name	Basil Konstantine Poledouris
Born	(1945-08-21)August 21, 1945 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died	November 8, 2006(2006-11-08) (aged 61) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Film score, Classical Music
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor
Instrument(s)	Piano, orchestra, synthesizer
Years active	1970–2006
Website	www.basil-poledouris.com

Basil Konstantine Poledouris (/ˌpɒlɪˈdɔːrɪs/; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores,^[1] best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven. Among his works are scores for the films Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Dawn (1984), Iron Eagle (1986), RoboCop (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993), Starship Troopers (1997) and Les Misérables (1998).

Poledouris won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special for his work on the four-part miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989, and was a four-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award.