Duane L. Tatro, who composed for nearly two dozen TV series, including such long-running hits as “Dynasty,” “The Love Boat” and “Barnaby Jones,” died Sunday at h…
Tatro’s music accompanied the action on “The FBI,” “Mannix,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “Cade’s County,” “Cannon,” “Most Wanted,” “Vega$” and “Matt Houston,” as well as the comedy of “M*A*S*H” and the romantic melodrama of “Glitter,” “The Colbys” and “Hotel.” His first series was the sci-fi thriller “The Invaders” in 1967, and he worked steadily in TV for the next two decades.
He continued his musical studies in Paris with leading classical composers Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud. He also led jazz bands in Paris and elsewhere in Europe in the late 1940s. Back in the States in the 1950s and ’60s, he continued his studies at USC and with modernist composer George Tremblay.
Tatro also scored a number of TV movies including “The House on Greenapple Road” , “Paper Man” , “The FBI Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One” , “Keefer” and “Deadly Deception” . He also composed music for the National Geographic special “Australia: The Timeless Land” in 1969.
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