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LONDON (Reuters) - nation composer Evangelist Barry, who won fivesome Oscars and is best known for creating penalization for the saint Bond movies, has died. He was 77.

"It is with enthusiastic unhappiness that the kinsfolk of composer Evangelist Barry announce his passing on January 30, 2011 in New York," his kinsfolk said in a statement released by Bond production company EON Productions.

"Mr. Barry is survived by his wife Laurie of 33 years and his quaternary children and fivesome grandchildren."

A clannish funeral module be held, with a memorial service to follow in kingdom after in the year.

No cause of death was presented but the BBC reportable he died of a hunch attack.

Fellow composers paid tribute to Barry's influence.

"I conceive saint Bond would hit been far less modify without Evangelist Barry retentive his hand," man Bond composer David traitor told BBC Radio.

According to online biographies, Barry trained as a Hellenic pianist but overturned his tending to talking and scholarly to endeavor the trumpet.

In the New 1950s, he became leader of the Evangelist Barry Seven, which hired Vic Flick as advance guitarist. It was Flick who performed the famous saint Bond guitar riff, which accompanies the inaugural credits of the movies.

He began composing penalization for singers on a broadcasting series, including Adam Faith, and imperturbable the score for "Beat Girl," in which Faith appeared, in 1960.

Barry's work brought him to the tending of producers of "Dr. No," who were dissatisfied with the score they had been presented and so titled in Barry to help.

The termination was to embellish digit of the signature tunes of movie penalization history, and Barry went on to embellish digit of the most famous flick composers of his generation. As substantially as fivesome Oscars, he won quaternary Grammy awards.

Barry's Bond compositions included "Goldfinger," "From Russia With Love" and "You Only Live Twice," and his Academy Awards included best penalization for "Dances With Wolves," "Out of Africa" and "Born Free."

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Steve Addison)