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Maurice Jarre Biography

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Maurice-Alexis Jarre (13 September 192428 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor. His son is the electronic composer Jean Michel Jarre. Although he composed several concert works, Jarre is best known for his film scores, particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films from ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962) on. Notable scores include ''The Train'' (1964), ''Mohammad, Messenger of God'' (1976), ''Witness'' (1985) and ''Ghost'' (1990). Jarre was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Three of his compositions spent a total of 42 weeks on the UK singles chart; the biggest hit was "Somewhere My Love" (to his tune "Lara's Theme", with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) by the Michael Sammes Singers, which reached Number 14 in 1966 and spent 38 weeks on the chart. Jarre was a three time Academy Award winner, for ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965), and ''A Passage to India'' (1984), all of which were directed by David Lean. He was Oscar nominated a total of eight times.

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