Dominic Carmen Frontiere was an American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist.
19 Facts About Dominic Frontiere
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Dominic Frontiere composed the theme and much of the music for the first season of the television series The Outer Limits, as well as the theme song for The Rat Patrol.
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Dominic Frontiere eventually became musical director at 20th Century Fox.
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Dominic Frontiere scored several films under the tutelage of Alfred and Lionel Newman, while recording jazz music.
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Dominic Frontiere composed the music for two exotica LP records Pagan Festival and Love Eyes, The Mood of Romance.
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An association with director and producer Leslie Stevens began with Dominic Frontiere scoring The Marriage-Go-Round.
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Dominic Frontiere composed several famous television themes of the 1960s, such as those for The Rat Patrol, Branded, The Flying Nun, and for producer Quinn Martin The Invaders, The Fugitive, and 12 O'Clock High.
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Dominic Frontiere composed the soundtrack to the 1971 motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday, which featured Steve McQueen and was directed by Bruce Brown.
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Dominic Frontiere composed the scores of three films starring John Wayne, Chisum, The Train Robbers and Brannigan.
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Dominic 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.
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Examples of Dominic Frontiere's sweeping, cinematic orchestrations appear in the opening and closing songs of the 1977 album Nether Lands by Dan Fogelberg.
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Dominic Frontiere won a Golden Globe Awards for the score to the 1980 film The Stunt Man.
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Dominic Frontiere composed a jingle for the studio's television division.
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Dominic Frontiere composed a theme for the lion Togar that was featured in the film Roar.
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In 1986, Dominic Frontiere was incarcerated for nine months in a federal penitentiary after scalping tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl, which he obtained through his then-wife, Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Dominic Frontiere.
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Dominic Frontiere was estimated to have scalped as many as 16,000 tickets, making a half million dollars in profit that he did not report to the Internal Revenue Service.
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Dominic 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.
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Georgia Frontiere filed for divorce shortly after Dominic's release from prison.
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Dominic Frontiere died on 21 December 2017, at the age of 86 in Tesuque, New Mexico, where he lived.