Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 - June 14, 1994) was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger of Italian descent. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series and Moon River.

Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores -his best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series and Moon River. Mancini won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up near Pitts