Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme") and the theme to the Peter Gunn television series. The Peter Gunn theme won the first Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Mancini also had a long collaboration on film scores with the film director Blake Edwards.
Academy Awards
Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
Best Original Song Score
Known For
Touch of Evil
(1958)
Original Music Composer
The Pink Panther
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961)
Original Music Composer and Songs
The Great Mouse Detective
(1986)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Silver Streak
(1976)
Original Music Composer
The Return of the Pink Panther
(1975)
Conductor and Original Music Composer
Lifeforce
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Blind Date
(1987)
Original Music Composer
Tom and Jerry: The Movie
(1992)
Original Music Composer and Songs
10
(1979)
Original Music Composer
Charade
(1963)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Creature from the Black Lagoon
(1954)
Original Music Composer
The Party
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Santa Claus: The Movie
(1985)
Original Music Composer
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
(1976)
Original Music Composer, Songs, and Conductor
Revenge of the Creature
(1955)
Music
Full Filmography
Sound
Lost in Alaska
(1952)
Music
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
(1953)
Original Music Composer
It Came from Outer Space
(1953)
Original Music Composer
Walking My Baby Back Home
(1953)
Music
The Golden Blade
(1953)
Music
Creature from the Black Lagoon
(1954)
Original Music Composer
The Glenn Miller Story
(1954)
Original Music Composer
The Far Country
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Saskatchewan
(1954)
Original Music Composer
So This Is Paris
(1954)
Music
Destry
(1954)
Music
Rails Into Laramie
(1954)
Music
One Desire
(1955)
Music
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
(1955)
Music
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
(1955)
Music
Revenge of the Creature
(1955)
Music
The Square Jungle
(1955)
Music
The Kettles in the Ozarks
(1956)
Original Music Composer
The Creature Walks Among Us
(1956)
Original Music Composer
Rock, Pretty Baby
(1956)
Music
World in My Corner
(1956)
Music
The Land Unknown
(1957)
Original Music Composer
The Monolith Monsters
(1957)
Original Music Composer
Man Afraid
(1957)
Original Music Composer
The Girl in the Kremlin
(1957)
Music
The Tattered Dress
(1957)
Music
The Midnight Story
(1957)
Music
The Night Runner
(1957)
Original Music Composer
Touch of Evil
(1958)
Original Music Composer
Voice in the Mirror
(1958)
Original Music Composer
Summer Love
(1958)
Music
The Thing That Couldn't Die
(1958)
Music
Damn Citizen
(1958)
Music
Flood Tide
(1958)
Music
Step Down to Terror
(1958)
Music
Imitation of Life
(1959)
Original Music Composer
The Great Impostor
(1960)
Music
High Time
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Bachelor in Paradise
(1961)
Music and Songs
Hatari!
(1962)
Original Music Composer
Experiment in Terror
(1962)
Original Music Composer
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
(1962)
Original Music Composer
The Pink Panther
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Charade
(1963)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Days of Wine and Roses
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Soldier in the Rain
(1963)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
A Shot in the Dark
(1964)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Carol for Another Christmas
(1964)
Original Music Composer
Man's Favorite Sport?
(1964)
Music
The Killers
(1964)
Music
The Pink Phink
(1964)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Pajamas
(1964)
Theme Song Performance
The Great Race
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Dear Heart
(1965)
Original Music Composer
We Give Pink Stamps
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Dial 'P' for Pink
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Sink Pink
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Pinkfinger
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Pickled Pink
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Shocking Pink
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Ice
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
The Pink Tail Fly
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
An Ounce of Pink
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Panzer
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Bully for Pink
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Reel Pink
(1965)
Theme Song Performance
Arabesque
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Let's Kill Uncle
(1966)
Music
Moment to Moment
(1966)
Music
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Pink Punch
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
The Pink Blueprint
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
Vitamin Pink
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
Genie with the Light Pink Fur
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Pistons
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
Smile Pretty, Say Pink
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
Pink, Plunk, Plink
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
Pink-A-Boo
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
Rock-A-Bye Pinky
(1966)
Theme Song Performance
Wait Until Dark
(1967)
Original Music Composer
Two for the Road
(1967)
Original Music Composer
Gunn
(1967)
Original Music Composer
The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Paradise
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Pinto Pink
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Prefabricated Pink
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Panic
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Jet Pink
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
In the Pink
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Pink of the Litter
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Posies
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Pinknic
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Congratulations It's Pink
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Outs
(1967)
Theme Song Performance
The Party
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Lucky Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Put-Put, Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Sky Blue Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Pinkadilly Circus
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Psychedelic Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
G.I. Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Come On In! The Water's Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Prehistoric Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Tickled Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
The Pink Pill
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Pink in the Clink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Valiant
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
The Pink Quarterback
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Little Beaux Pink
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Pinkcome Tax
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
The Pink Package Plot
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing
(1968)
Theme Song Performance
Me, Natalie
(1969)
Original Music Composer
Gaily, Gaily
(1969)
Original Music Composer
In the Pink of the Night
(1969)
Music and Theme Song Performance
Pink Pest Control
(1969)
Theme Song Performance
Extinct Pink
(1969)
Theme Song Performance
Pink-A-Rella
(1969)
Theme Song Performance
Think Before You Pink
(1969)
Theme Song Performance
Pink on the Cob
(1969)
Theme Song Performance
Slink Pink
(1969)
Theme Song Performance
Sunflower
(1970)
Original Music Composer
The Molly Maguires
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Darling Lili
(1970)
Music
The Hawaiians
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Sometimes a Great Notion
(1971)
Original Music Composer
The Night Visitor
(1971)
Original Music Composer
Gong with the Pink
(1971)
Theme Song Performance
Pink-In
(1971)
Theme Song Performance
A Fly in the Pink
(1971)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Tuba-Dore
(1971)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Blue Plate
(1971)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Pranks
(1971)
Theme Song Performance
Psst Pink
(1971)
Theme Song Performance
The Pink Flea
(1971)
Theme Song Performance
The Eyes of Charles Sand
(1972)
Music
Sam Cade
(1972)
Original Music Composer
Pink 8 Ball
(1972)
Theme Song Performance
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Oklahoma Crude
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Visions of Eight
(1973)
Music
Ann-Margret: When You're Smiling
(1973)
Original Music Composer
The White Dawn
(1974)
Original Music Composer
That's Entertainment!
(1974)
Original Music Composer
99 and 44/100% Dead
(1974)
Original Music Composer
The Girl from Petrovka
(1974)
Original Music Composer
Trail of the Lonesome Pink
(1974)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Aye
(1974)
Theme Song Performance
The Great Waldo Pepper
(1975)
Music
The Return of the Pink Panther
(1975)
Conductor and Original Music Composer
Once Is Not Enough
(1975)
Original Music Composer
The Blue Knight
(1975)
Music
Bobolink Pink
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
It's Pink But Is It Mink?
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Forty Pink Winks
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Plasma
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Keep Our Forests Pink
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Streaker
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
The Scarlet Pinkernel
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Campaign
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Pink DaVinci
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Elephant
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Salmon Pink
(1975)
Theme Song Performance
Silver Streak
(1976)
Original Music Composer
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
(1976)
Original Music Composer, Songs, and Conductor
W.C. Fields and Me
(1976)
Original Music Composer
Alex & the Gypsy
(1976)
Original Music Composer
The Pink Pro
(1976)
Theme Song Performance
Pinky Doodle
(1976)
Theme Song Performance
The Pink of Arabee
(1976)
Theme Song Performance
Sherlock Pink
(1976)
Theme Song Performance
Mystic Pink
(1976)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Piper
(1976)
Theme Song Performance
Rocky Pink
(1976)
Theme Song Performance
Angela
(1977)
Music
Therapeutic Pink
(1977)
Theme Song Performance
Revenge of the Pink Panther
(1978)
Music and Songs
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
(1978)
Music
A Family Upside Down
(1978)
Original Music Composer
House Calls
(1978)
Original Music Composer
Pinkologist
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Star Pink
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Trumpet
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Z-Z-Z
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Bananas
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Yankee Doodle Pink
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink in the Drink
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Press
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pinktails for Two
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pet Pink Pebbles
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
The Pink of Bagdad
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Cat and the Pinkstalk
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink U.F.O.
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Dietetic Pink
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Sprinkle Me Pink
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Daddy
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink S.W.A.T.
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Lightning
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Arcade
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Pictures
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink and Shovel
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Lemonade
(1978)
Theme Song Performance
The Prisoner of Zenda
(1979)
Original Music Composer
Nightwing
(1979)
Original Music Composer
10
(1979)
Original Music Composer
The Best Place to Be
(1979)
Music
Spark Plug Pink
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Pink
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Suds
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
Toro Pink
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Breakfast
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Quackers
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
Pink in the Woods
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
String Along in Pink
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
Pink Pull
(1979)
Theme Song Performance
A Change of Seasons
(1980)
Original Music Composer
Little Miss Marker
(1980)
Original Music Composer
The Shadow Box
(1980)
Original Music Composer
Supermarket Pink
(1980)
Theme Song Performance
S.O.B.
(1981)
Original Music Composer
Condorman
(1981)
Original Music Composer
Back Roads
(1981)
Original Music Composer
Mommie Dearest
(1981)
Original Music Composer
Victor/Victoria
(1982)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Trail of the Pink Panther
(1982)
Music
Amy and the Angel
(1982)
Music Supervisor
The Man Who Loved Women
(1983)
Original Music Composer
Second Thoughts
(1983)
Music
Curse of the Pink Panther
(1983)
Music
Harry and Son
(1984)
Original Music Composer
Lifeforce
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Santa Claus: The Movie
(1985)
Original Music Composer
The Great Mouse Detective
(1986)
Original Music Composer and Songs
A Fine Mess
(1986)
Original Music Composer
That's Life!
(1986)
Music
Blind Date
(1987)
Original Music Composer
The Glass Menagerie
(1987)
Original Music Composer
Without a Clue
(1988)
Original Music Composer
Justin Case
(1988)
Original Music Composer
Sunset
(1988)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Skin Deep
(1989)
Original Music Composer
Physical Evidence
(1989)
Original Music Composer
Welcome Home
(1989)
Original Music Composer
Peter Gunn
(1989)
Music
Mother, Mother
(1989)
Music
Ghost Dad
(1990)
Original Music Composer
Fear
(1990)
Original Music Composer
We
(1990)
Music
Switch
(1991)
Original Music Composer
Married to It
(1991)
Original Music Composer
Never Forget
(1991)
Music
Tom and Jerry: The Movie
(1992)
Original Music Composer and Songs
Son of the Pink Panther
(1993)
Music
Victor/Victoria
(1995)
Songs
Island
(2011)
Music
A Most Deadly Exchange
(2012)
Music
Take Flight
(2015)
Music
Piano Cinéma
(2022)
Original Music Composer
Acting
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
(1965)
Self
Pink, Plunk, Plink
(1966)
Self
I Love Quincy
(1984)
Self
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
(1985)
Self
Seriously... Phil Collins
(1990)
Self
You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
(1992)
Self - Composer
Son of the Pink Panther
(1993)
Self (uncredited)
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
(1993)
Self
Henry Mancini: More Than Music
(2009)
Archive Footage
And the Oscar Goes To...
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Writing