Dominic Frontiere

Dominic Frontiere (born June 17, 1931) is an American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist.^[1] He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the first season of the television series The Outer Limits.

Early years

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of a musical family, at age seven Frontiere was already playing several instruments before deciding to concentrate on the accordion. At twelve, he played solo at Carnegie Hall.

Hollywood

After a stint with a big band in the late 1940s and early 50s, Frontiere moved to Los Angeles, where he enrolled at UCLA. He eventually became musical director at 20th Century Fox. He scored several films under the tutelage of Alfred and Lionel Newman, while also recording jazz music.

An association with director and producer Leslie Stevens led to several projects, most notably his innovative blend of music and sound effects for The Outer Limits. He also scored for The Rat Patrol and, for producer Quinn Martin, The Invaders and Twelve O'Clock High.^[1]

After scoring for TV shows, he went on to compose the music for the Clint Eastwood film Hang 'Em High. The title theme for that movie became a top-10 hit for the group Booker T. & the M.G.'s.

Frontiere became head of the music department at Paramount Pictures in the early 1970s, where he again worked on television and film scores, while concurrently orchestrating popular music albums for, among others, Chicago. He won a Golden Globe for the score to the 1980 film The Stunt Man. He also composed a jingle for the studio's television division.

Criminal history

In 1986, Frontiere was incarcerated for nine months in a federal penitentiary for scalping tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl, which he obtained through his then-wife, Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere.^[2] He was estimated to have scalped as many as 16,000 tickets, making a half million dollars in profit that he failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service. Frontiere pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year and one day in prison, three years probation, and fined $15,000 for failing to report income from the sale of the tickets and for lying to the IRS.^[3][4] Georgia Frontiere filed for divorce shortly after Dominic's release from prison.^[2]

Selected works

Television 1964: The Outer Limits 1964: Twelve O'Clock High            1965: Branded 1965: The F.B.I. 1966: The Rat Patrol 1966: That Girl 1967: The Invaders 1967: The Flying Nun 1970: The Immortal 1972: Movin' On 1972: Search 1978: Vega$ 1982: Matt Houston

Film 1965: Incubus 1968: Hang 'Em High 1970: Chisum 1971: On Any Sunday 1972: The Train Robbers 1975: Brannigan 1980: Defiance 1980: The Stunt Man 1981: Modern Problems 1994: Color of Night

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.composerjohnbeal.com/Frontiere.html
2. ^ ^{a b} "Rams owner Georgia Frontiere succumbs to cancer at 80". Associated Press. 2008-01-19. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/rams/2008-01-18-frontiere-obit_N.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
3. ^ Sports Illustrated, June 30, 1986; The New York Times, November 5 and December 10, 1986
4. ^ "SPORTS PEOPLE; Frontiere Sentenced". The New York Times. December 9, 1986. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE4DA1639F93AA35751C1A960948260. Retrieved May 1, 2010. 

External links

• Biography of Frontiere
• Dominic Frontiere at the Internet Movie Database
• Dominc Frontiere at Space Age Pop

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