RIP, Shirley Walker (April 10, 1945 – November 29, 2006)

by Josh | December 1, 2006 1:54 pm

Suffering a brain aneurysm, composer Shirley Walker died Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, California. She was at the age of 61. In 1986, Walker scored Disney’s Fluppy Dogs, a pilot for a rejected television series. Later, she orchestrated music for the first live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film (1990). She also orchestrated and wrote music for Dick Tracy (1990), while arranging its Oscar-winning song “Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man).” It was with Batman (1989) that Walker began a professional relationship with the Caped Crusader, conducting music for the Tim Burton hit and orchestrating the score for its second sequel, Batman Forever (1995). Furthermore, she composed music for Batman: The Animated Series (1992), which landed her an Annie nomination. After Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) and The New Batman Adventures (1997), Walker finally won a Daytime Emmy for her work on Batman Beyond (1999).

Meanwhile, Superman: The Animated Series (1996) brought Walker another Annie nomination, while The Zeta Project (2001) delivered that and a Daytime Emmy nomination. In-between those projects, she composed music for HBO’s Spawn animated series (1997). Walker’s final superhero undertaking, DC: The New Frontier, will be released directly to DVD in 2007. For more information on the life of Shirley Walker, please visit the Big Cartoon Database[1] and the Internet Movie Database[2]. Thanks to George C. at the Animated News Forum[3] for the notice of this tragic news.

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