Ennio Morricone, Oscar-winning movie soundtrack composer, dies aged 91


In this file photo taken on November 30,2016 shows Italian composer Ennio Morricone conducts a concert in Helsinki. Morricone, one of the world's best-known and most prolific film composers, has died in Rome, Italian media reported on July 6,2020. - AFP

LOS ANGELES (Reuters/Variety.com): Oscar winner Ennio Morricone, composer of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The Mission and among the most prolific and admired composers in film history, has died. He was 91.

Morricone died early Monday in a Rome clinic, where he was taken shortly after suffering a fall that caused a hip fracture, his lawyer Giorgio Asumma told Italian news agency Ansa.

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