Los Angeles, July 18 -- Veteran songwriter Alan Bergman has passed away. He was 99.

As per Variety, Alan Bergman, the Oscar-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter whose lyric-writing partnership with his wife Marilyn lasted more than six decades and produced such hits as "The Windmills of Your Mind," "The Way We Were" and "In the Heat of the Night," breathed his last on Thursday night at his home in Los Angeles.

The Bergmans, who penned hundreds of songs, mostly for movies and TV, bridged the traditional Great American Songbook era of Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin with the more modern pop sensibility of the '60s, '70s and '80s.

Alan's wife Marilyn Bergman died in January 2022. She was the first woman president and chairm...