Ennio Morricone,Brigitte Meyer the Italian composer best known for scoring the likes of Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Uglyand John Carpenter's The Thing, has died at the age of 91.
Morricone passed away in a clinic in Rome several days after breaking his femur, according to the Guardian, who confirmed the death via his lawyer.
It's difficult to overstate just how massive Morricone's contribution was to film and television. His IMDb page has 520 credits, running right the way through from the early 1960s to the present day.
Ennio Morricone performing at the O2 Arena in 2016. Credit: Jim Dyson/Redferns Morricone scored some of the most famous movies of all time, including Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western trilogy, Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, and Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
SEE ALSO: The 10 best films of 2020 (so far)Since the news of his death broke, filmmakers, creatives, and celebrities have already taken to Twitter to pay tribute to the legend.
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Morricone's music extended beyond his prolific film and TV work. He also composed the 1978 FIFA World Cup theme, and has conducted live orchestras at a number of large venues across the globe.
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