<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1970--2003 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> http://www.basil-poledouris.com/ </Td> </Tr> <P> Basil Konstantine Poledouris (August 21, 1945--November 8, 2006) was a Greek - 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 the four part 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), Free Willy (1993) and Starship Troopers (1997). </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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