December 23, 2017 6:16PM PST

Dominic Frontiere, Emmy-winning composer of such classic TV themes as "The Outer Limits," "The Flying Nun" and "The Rat Patrol," died Thursday in Tesuque, N.M. He was 86.

Frontiere was a fixture on the film- and TV-music scene throughout the 1960s, '70s and '80s, composing hundreds of hours of music, mostly for TV but also for films including "Hang 'Em High," "Cancel My Reservation," "Hammersmith Is Out," "Freebie and the Bean," and "The Aviator." He won a Golden Globe award for his score for "The Stunt Man" in 1980.

He also won an Emmy as musical director of "Swing Out, Sweet Land," a patriotic TV special hosted by John Wayne in 1970. He scored three films for Wayne: "Chisum," "The Train Robbers" and "Brannigan."

Frontiere's TV work dominated, however, including themes and scores for many series including "The New Breed," "That Girl," "Stoney Burke," "12 O'Clock High," "Branded," "The Invaders," "The Immortal," "Search," "Vega$" and "Matt Houston."

His largest-scale work for TV was the 12-hour miniseries "Washington: Behind Closed Doors," composed during his stint as head of music for Paramount in the mid-1970s. His other TV movies included "Probe," "Haunts of the Very Rich" and "Palomino."