Gerard Schurmann, whose 1960s film scores included “The Bedford Incident” and “Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow” but who also composed extensively for the concert hall, died Mar…
, whose 1960s film scores included “The Bedford Incident” and “Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow” but who also composed extensively for the concert hall, died March 24 at his home in the Hollywood Hills. The cause of death was not announced; he was 96.
The composer’s death came just a few months after Chandos released a collection of newly recorded suites from his film work, led by his swashbuckling music for the 1963 “Dr. Syn,” perhaps his best-known work. Written for a three-part, Disney-produced television miniseries that aired in the U.S. as “The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh” starring Patrick McGoohan, it was released theatrically in Europe as “Dr. Syn” and has enjoyed a cult following ever since.
Schurmann’s best-known American film was “The Bedford Incident,” a 1965 Cold War thriller starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. Later films included “Attack on the Iron Coast” , “Claretta” and “The Gambler” . Schurmann rarely orchestrated for other composers, but did so for two major ones: Ernest Gold for “Exodus” and Maurice Jarre for “Lawrence of Arabia,” both of whom won Oscars for those scores. He later orchestrated Gold’s “Cross of Iron,” one of Sam Peckinpah’s last films. Gold once called Schurmann “a marvelous orchestrator and master of the medium.”
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