Marvin Laird, a prolific Broadway, film and TV composer, conductor and musical director who lent his talents to projects featuring such stars as Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, Diana Ross, Cass Elliot,

Marvin Laird, who composed music for Broadway and the big screen and served as Bernadette Peters' musical director for many years, has died. He was 85. Laird died Monday of natural causes in Redding,

Marvin Laird, a Broadway and film composer who conducted concerts for Diana Ross and Bernadette Peters, died on Dec. 2.