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Portrait of Marvin Hamlisch

ICM Artists agency, Michael Childers, photographer · Public domain

Marvin Hamlisch

American composer and conductor

1944 – 2012aged 68

Marvin Hamlisch is one of a small handful of people to hold an EGOT — an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — and, with a Pulitzer Prize for A Chorus Line, one of only two composers, alongside Richard Rodgers, to add a PEGOT to that list. He worked across film scoring, Broadway and conducting over a career that spanned four decades.

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