Robert Farnon, 87; Composer and Arranger for Movies, Pop and Jazz
LA Times
Robert Farnon, who scored about 40 motion pictures including “Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.” and arranged popular songs for top recording artists such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Lena Horne, has died. He was 87.
Farnon died Saturday in his sleep at a hospice on Guernsey in Britain’s Channel Islands. The suspected cause was a heart attack.
