Alexander Sandy Courage

May 29, 2008

Alexander "Sandy" Courage, a composer and arranger who wrote the iconic theme song for "Star Trek" as well as numerous film and TV scores from the 1950s through the 1990s, died May 15 in Pacific Palisades. He was 88.

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