Film and TV composer Basil Poledouris, who received an Emmy for scoring the 1989 Western miniseries "Lonesome Dove," died Wednesday of cancer in Los Angeles. He was 61. By Chris Morris, The Associated ...

On Feb. 5, 1989, CBS unspooled the first episode of the Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones epic Western series.

Basil Poledouris, the Emmy-winning composer of “Lonesome Dove” and composer for such films as “Conan the Barbarian,” “Free Willy” and “The Blue Lagoon,” died of cancer Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Emmy-winning composer Basil Poledouris, best known for his powerful music for action-adventure films of the 1980s and '90s, died of cancer in Los Angeles on Wednesday, a ...

An intimate profile of the composer of film and television scores such as Lonesome Dove Conan the Barbarian Robocop Free Willy and Starship Troopers Starring Basil Poledouris Zoë Poledouris Director ...

The western — that all-American, heavy-hoofed, six-gun totin’, boot-heeled, suede-and-leather creature — has hit the entertainment trail so many times it long ago attained archetypal status, a ...