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Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist. 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.
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flautist. He received four Academy Awards, twenty Grammy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger . Mancini was born in Little Italy, Cleveland and raised in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. He served in the United States Army from 1943-1945. Mancini's best known works include: The Pink Panther Theme, the Peter Gunn Theme, Moon ...
Henry Mancini (1924-1994) Music Department. Composer. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, but brought up in Pennsylvania, where he played the flute in a local band, as a youth, before sending some arrangements to Benny Goodman . Goodman offered him a job and, after serving in WWII, he joined the rearranged Glenn Miller band.
Henry Mancini is often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film. Over his legendary 5-decade career, Henry left behind a body of work that includes over 90 albums in a variety of styles including big band, jazz, light classical, pop, easy listening and, of course, film scores.
Jun 15, 1994 · Henry Mancini, a prolific composer whose music was heard in hundreds of films and television shows, and who won four Academy Awards in a career of more than 40 years, died yesterday at his home...
"The Pink Panther Theme" is a jazz composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film The Pink Panther and subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 37th Academy Awards but lost to the Sherman Brothers for Mary Poppins.
