Hayes also created music for Laverne & Shirley and served as orchestrator on a number of blockbuster movies, including Up, The Incredibles, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible III, Taxi Driver and The Three Musketeers.
He also collaborated with Leo Shuken on music for classic films like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, In Cold Blood, and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.
Hayes was nominated for two Oscars – one in 1964 for adapting the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and another in 1985 for contributing to Quincy Jones’ score for The Color Purple.
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Hayes was born in San Francisco, California and is survived by his two children.
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