Al Kasha, the songwriter who won Academy Awards in the 1970s for co-writing hit ballads for “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno,” died Monday in Los Angeles.
He was 83.
No cause of death was immediately offered.As part of a songwriting team with Joel Hirschhorn, Kasha received two Tony nominations, four Golden Globe nods and a People’s Choice award, plus a pair of additional Oscar nominations in addition to their two wins.“The Morning After,” from 1973’s “The Poseidon Adventure,” and “We May Never Love Like This Again,” from 1975’s “The Towering Inferno,” became a part of pop culture before scoring with the Academy, almost inventing a subgenre of sensitive ballads with the slightest of tragic understones that kept them from being completely at odds with the Irwin Allen disaster movies they turned up in.The duo’s other two Oscar nods came for the 1977 Walt Disney film “Pete’s Dragon,
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