Lalo Schifrin’s ‘Mission: Impossible' Tracks Have Been Sampled in Hip-hop and Trip-hop The first Mission: Impossible soundtrack became a best-seller in 1968, with the theme reaching No. 41 on ...

Lalo Schifrin, a decorated film composer who most notably wrote the Mission: Impossible theme, died at 93 on Thursday, June 26. His son, William Schifrin, confirmed his death to NPR.

Lalo Schifrin, the six-time Oscar nominee and prolific composer best known for his Grammy-winning "Mission: Impossible" theme, has died. He was 93. Schifrin died Thursday morning at a hospital in ...

(AP) - Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s son ...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93.

Composer Lalo Schifrin, left, rehearses with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta's direction for the world premiere of his "Pulsations" in Los Angeles on Jan. 27, 1971.

Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning composer who brought a jazzy, pulsating immediacy to dozens of film and TV scores - most memorably the “Mission: Impossible” theme - and who chose a radical ...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93.

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93.

By MARK KENNEDY Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died on June 26. He was 93.

Composer Lalo Schifrin, left, rehearses with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta’s direction for the world premiere of his “Pulsations” in Los Angeles on Jan. 27, 1971.

Lalo Schifrin is best known as a composer of film and TV scores. His works include the music for "Cool Hand Luke," "Dirty Harry," "Bullet," and "Mannix," and this little jam.