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 Maurice Jarre: Passes away
Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who composed the music for the films like "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Passage to India", died overnight Sunday in Los Angeles at the age of 84.
In his career, Maurice Jarre wrote the music for more than 150 films by great directors including Luchino Visconti, Alfred Hitchcock, John Frankenheimer amd John Huston.
Jarre wrote his first score in 1952 for the short "Hotel des Invalides" in response to the request of director Georges Franju. He scored his last film in 2001, a TV movie about the Holocaust entitled Uprising.
Jarre was the father of Jean Michel Jarre, a French composer who is one of the pioneers in the electronic music field. His youngest son Kevin Jarre is a screenwriter, with credits on such movies as Tombstone and Glory.
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