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Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer, arranger, conductor, songwriter, and musician. He began his work as an pop and rock music arranger, notably for Pink Floyd, and was a member of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and the Roger Waters Band. Starting in the mid-1980s, he achieved further prominence as a composer of film scores.
Kamen's best known scores include the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon franchises, the Terry Gilliam films Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Highlander, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Don Juan DeMarco, What Dreams May Come, The Iron Giant, X-Men, and the television series Edge of Darkness, Tales from the Crypt, and Band of Brothers.
Over the course of his career, Kamen won four Grammy Awards and a BAFTA TV Award, and was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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