#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer.
He entered Saint Cecilia Music Conservatory in 1940, age 12, for a four-year program he completed in six months. He composed his first film score in 1955, his first worldwide hit A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer.
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) * For a Few Dollars More * Hollywood: John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) * For a Few Extra Dollars * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly * Once Upon a Time in the West
#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer, conductor.
Two Mules for Sister Sara * The Exorcist II: The Heretic * Days of Heaven (OscarNom) * La Cage aux Follies I/II/III * The Thing * Once Upon a Time in America * The Mission (OscarNom)
#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer, conductor.
18th century Spanish Jesuit Preists try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe, in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
The Mission (1986 OscarNom)
#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian trumpet player, composer, and conductor.
The Untouchables (OscarNom) * Frantic * Cinema Paradiso * Casualties of War * Hamlet (1990) * Bugsy (OscarNom) * In the Line of Fire * Wolf * Bulworth * The Hateful Eight (2015 Oscar)
#BOTD 1928 – 2020 Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
"As Civil War rages between the Union and Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the US Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 stolen gold."
Good, Bad, Ugly? 1966
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