Other films Niehaus worked on in this period included Clint Eastwood movies such as The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Lennie Niehaus, who as Clint Eastwood’s favoured composer created the scores to Unforgiven and 12 more of his films, has died aged 90.
Niehaus orchestrated six Eastwood films after the director started writing scores himself, including Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino.
He and Eastwood had become friends at Fort Ord army base in California, where Eastwood had been his swimming instructor.