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LOS ANGELES — Nathan Scott, a film and television composer, arranger and conductor whose credits include composing music for the TV classics “Dragnet” and “Lassie,” has died. He was 94.
Scott, the father of Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist and composer-arranger Tom Scott, died Saturday of age-related causes at his Los Angeles home, said his daughter, Linda Colley.
Scott did the arrangements for all of the “Dragnet” episodes until the end of its run in 1959 and composed the scores for about half the episodes.
As a freelance composer, he worked on series such as “Have Gun-Will Travel,” “My Three Sons,” “Rawhide,” “The Twilight Zone,” “The Untouchables” and “Wagon Train.” From 1963 to 1972, he composed the music for “Lassie.”
