Basil Poledouris

Basil Poledouris

Composer Basil Poledouris has scored a wide variety of major Hollywood features and television movies of the '70s,'80s and '90s. Before breaking into the film industry Poledouris earned a music and composition degrees from Long Beach State University and attended both the Los Angeles film school and the AFI school. He frequently collaborates with filmmaker John Milius, whom he met while attending USC. In 1989, Poledouris received an Emmy for the score of the television mini-series Lonesome Dove.

Legal name

Basil Konstantine Poledouris

Type

Person

Born

Aug 21, 1945

Born in

Kansas City

Died

Nov 8, 2006 (aged 61)

Died in

Los Angeles

Country

United States

IPI code

00085842740

ISNI code

0000000109161052

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