British composer John Barry — who is being honored with the Ghent Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement award and whose music will be performed live at the fest Oct. 23 — reinvented the action movie ...

Five-time Academy Award-winning composer John Barry passed away Sunday at the age of 77 after suffering a heart attack, according to a statement released by his family.

Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including You Only Live Twice and Goldfinger, has died. He was 77. Mr. Barry died in New York on Sunday, his ...

(Reuters) - John Barry, the composer best known for creating the soundtrack to the James Bond films, has died. He was 77. He won five Academy Awards and four Grammys during an illustrious career.

When Sydney Pollack started editing “Out of Africa,” he assembled a temporary score that consisted entirely of excerpts from earlier scores by John Barry: “Somewhere in Time,” “Robin and Marian,” even ...

Forget the license to kill. James Bond fanatics carry a license to argue about everything. Who’s the best Bond? Well, Connery. Obviously. But Daniel Craig’s a close second, many believe. And the other ...

Yet when the album Ready When You Are, J.B. appeared in 1970, its liner notes said “he’s invisible most of the time.” Although he had recently appeared briefly in the film Deadfall, Barry was ...