Spaghetti Western Movie Composer Ennio Morricone Dead at 91

Spaghetti Western Movie Composer Ennio Morricone Dead at 91
Ennio Morricone attends Bernardo Bertolucci Memorial at Teatro Argentina in Rome, Italy, on Dec. 6, 2018. Franco Origlia/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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ROME—Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” and the epic “Once Upon A Time In America,” died Monday. He was 91.

Morricone’s longtime lawyer, Giorgio Assumma, said “the Maestro,” as he was known, died in a Rome hospital of complications following surgery after a recent fall in which he broke a leg bone.