Daniel Adrian Carlin

Carlin, Daniel Adrian Emmy-Award winning music editor and 30-year member of the Motion Picture Academy's Music Branch Executive Committee, died in his Carpinteria, California home on August 14, at the age of 73 due to complications from lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis. A Navy veteran, Mr. Carlin later entered the motion picture industry and trained as a music editor, eventually performing services on many nominated and Oscar-winning films, including "Scorpio", "The Outlaw Josey Wales", "Ghost", "Gorillas in the Mist", "Dead Poets Society", "Fatal Attraction", "Parenthood", and "Cliffhanger". He won an Emmy in 1987 for his work on the miniseries "Unnatural Causes". More importantly, he spearheaded the industry's revolution to independent post-production during the 1970s. The company he founded, now called Segue Music and run by his son Daniel Allan Carlin, is part of Zomba Entertainment and remains by far the largest and most successful in the industry. In addition to his elder son, Mr. Carlin Sr. trained his daughters, Kathryn Durning and Patricia Carlin, with whom he formed the successful company Triad Music in the 1980s, and his son Thomas Carlin, who, before changing careers, was the music editor on "Romancing the Stone". Highly respected and affectionately regarded by his peers, proteges, and collaborators alike, Mr. Carlin trained many of today's most successful music editors and worked alongside such renown composers as Hugo Friedhofer, Lionel Newman, Lalo Schifrin, Elmer Bernstein, Fred Karlin, Charles Fox, Ennio Morricone, Michael Small, Randy Newman, Trevor Jones, Bruce Broughton, Maurice Jarre, and his mentor, Jerry Fielding. Mr. Carlin authored the definitive text on music editing ("Music in Film and Video Production"), and lectured and/or taught at many universities and colleges, including UCLA, The Berklee College of Music, and Dublin University in Ireland. When Mr. Carlin and his beloved wife Annie were not together sailing or on the road, they graciously welcomed friends and relatives to their homes in Carpinteria and San Felipe, Mexico. In addition to his wife and four children, Mr. Carlin is survived by ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 5:00 p.m. on September 8, 2001, at the Recording Academy, 3402 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be sent to MusiCares at the Recording Academy or to the Motion Picture Academy Foundation's Film-Score Preservation Fund at AMPAS, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211. To RSVP, or for further information, please call Segue Music at 310/786-8888.