Basil Poledouris
| Basil Konstantine Poledouris | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
August 21, 1945 Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| Died | November 8, 2006 (aged 61) Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
| Instruments | Piano, orchestra |
| Years active | 1970–2003 |
| Website | http://www.basil-poledouris.com/ |
Basil Konstantine Poledouris (August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American music composer who concentrated on the scores for films and television shows. Poledouris won the Emmy Award for Best Musical Score for work on part four of the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989. He is best known for scores such as Conan the Barbarian (1982), RoboCop (1987), Spellbinder (1988), Red Dawn (1984), The Hunt for Red October (1990), RoboCop 3 (1993) and Starship Troopers (1997).
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he credited two influences with guiding him towards music: the first was composer Miklós Rózsa; the second his own Greek Orthodox heritage. Poledouris was raised in the Church, and he used to sit in services enthralled by the choir's sound. At the age of seven, Poledouris began piano lessons, and after high school graduation, he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study both filmmaking and music. Several short films to which he contributed are still kept in the university's archives. At USC, Poledouris met movie directors John Milius and Randal Kleiser, with whom he would later collaborate as a music composer. He appeared as a background extra in several episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. In 1985, Poledouris wrote the music for Paul Verhoeven's Flesh & Blood, establishing a durable collaboration.
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