Composer Jack Hayes dies at 92

Jack J. Hayes, an Oscar-nominated composer and orchestrator who done a lot more than 200 films throughout a Hollywood career that spanned six decades, died of natural causes Wednesday in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was 92.Hayes' behind-the-moments abilities like a fast, meticulous and highly trained orchestrator for such top composers as Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Randy Newman, Quincy Johnson, Marvin Hamlisch and Burt Bacharach stored him sought after for many years. His last credits were on Michael Giacchino's "Star Trek" and "Up."Hayes was Oscar-nominated two times, for adapting the musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" in 1964 as well as for adding to Jones' score for "The Colour Crimson" in 1985. Hayes loved a lengthy partnership with fellow orchestrator Leo Shuken from the nineteen fifties. Together they orchestrated numerous landmark films including "The Magnificent Seven" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" for Bernstein, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Times of Wine and Roses" for Mancini, "The Finest Story Ever Told" and "Airport terminal" for Alfred Newman, "In Cold Bloodstream" for Johnson, and "Casino Royale" and "Butch Cassidy and also the Sundance Kid" for Bacharach.Hayes and Shuken also composed TV scores, including such Westerns as "Riverboat," "Wagon Train," "The Virginian" and "Gunsmoke." After Shuken's dying in 1976, Hayes ongoing solo, orchestrating scores for Randy Newman including "Ragtime" and "NaturalInch for John Morris including "High Anxiety" and "The Elephant Guy" as well as for Bob Cobert the television miniseries "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance." Hayes' solo TV-creating credits incorporated "Quincy M.E.," "Laverne and Shirley" and "Salvage 1." He also worked with with Tom Scott about the film score for "Go ForwardInch and composed plans for performers including Jesse O'Connor, Gem Bailey and Barbra Streisand.An unwell Bernard Herrmann enlisted Hayes to conduct his final score, "Taxi Driver," at the end of 1975. Giacchino employed him as orchestrator on almost all his films beginning with "The Incredibles" in 2004.Hayes was created in Bay Area in 1919. He attended Bay Area Condition College and, later, the La Conservatory of Music. Initially a trumpet player, he soon started organizing for radio's "Fibber McGee and Molly" as well as for bandleaders including Will Osborne. He later together with as bandleader for comics Abbott & Costello with cowboy performers Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.He composed several classical works and worked with with jazz drummer Louis Bellson on numerous jazz and orchestral pieces.Hayes was honored through the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and also the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC), in 2009, for his lengthy career in films and TV.Children incorporate a daughter along with a boy a sister and three grandchildren. A memorial service is going to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, at St. Anastasia Catholic Chapel, 7390 West Manchester Avenue, La. Donations might be designed to St. Jude's Children's Hospital. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com