Richard Gillis, a singer, songwriter and composer who worked for Sam Peckinpah on the Western fable 'The Ballad of Cable Hogue,' has died. He was 80.
Sam Peckinpah hired him to a personal services contract after seeing him perform in a bar.The Ballad of Cable HogueGillis died July 31 in Thousand Oaks as a result of complications from a fall at his home in Toluca Lake, his family said.
"The songs of Richard Gillis enhance the fanciful tone of the picture, and one, 'Butterfly Mornings,' recorded in the desert by Robards and Miss Stevens, enriches the montage of their days together, with a dramatic function rare for film songs," Peckinpah had signed Gillis to a personal services contract after seeing him perform in a bar — he sang regularly at Jason's Steakhouse in Toluca Lake — and he worked with the famed director on other films including After Peckinpah...
Born in Hollywood on Dec. 15, 1938, Gillis attended John Burroughs High School in Burbank, the University of Denver and UCLA. After serving in the U.S. Army, he returned to Hollywood to pursue a career in music and the movies., directed by John Landis;
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