American film composer (1908–2000) who wrote original scores for the second and third seasons of Star Trek, including Metamorphosis, The Empath and Is There in Truth No Beauty?
George Duning was an American composer who spent many years at Columbia Pictures, where his scores for films such as From Here to Eternity and Picnic earned him several Academy Award nominations.
He was engaged for the original Star Trek in its second season and wrote the music for Metamorphosis, whose lyrical theme for the Companion is among the best-remembered cues of the series, and for Return to Tomorrow.
In the third season he scored And the Children Shall Lead, Is There in Truth No Beauty? and The Empath. As with the other composers of the series, his cues were also tracked into many episodes for which no new music was recorded.