Movie Composer Miklos Rozsa Dies

Miklos Rozsa, the Academy Award-winning composer, died Thursday of pneumonia. He was 88.

The Hungarian-born composer’s dramatic, classically-tinged film scores won him three Oscars, for “Spellbound” (1945), “A Double Life” (1947), and “Ben-Hur” (1959).

He also wrote numerous orchestral and chamber pieces.

His work was used in many of the psychological dramas of the ‘40s and later in historical epics.

Among his other works were: “Jungle Book” (1942), “So Proudly We Hail” (1943), “Double Indemnity” (1944), “The Lost Weekend” (1945), “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” (1953), “Madame Bovary” (1949), “The Asphalt Jungle (1950), “Ivanhoe” (1952), “Julius Caesar” (1953), “Knights of the Round Table” (1954) and “Lust for Life” (1956), “El Cid” (1961), “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) and “Last Embrace” (1979).