Jerry Goldsmith

Film score, Composer

1929 – 2004

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Who was Jerry Goldsmith?

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring.

He composed scores for such noteworthy films as The Sand Pebbles, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Chinatown, The Wind and the Lion, The Omen, The Boys from Brazil, Night Crossing, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Rudy, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, The Mummy, three Rambo films, and five Star Trek films. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards. In 1976, he was awarded an Oscar for The Omen.

He collaborated with some of film history's most prolific directors, including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, and Paul Verhoeven. However, his most notable collaboration was arguably that of with Franklin J. Schaffner, for whom Goldsmith scored such films as Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, and The Boys from Brazil.

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Born
Feb 10, 1929
Pasadena
Also known as
  • J. Goldsmith
  • Jerrald King Goldsmith
  • Jerrald K. Goldsmith
  • Jerrald Goldsmith
  • Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith
  • Michael Hennagin
  • Smith, Jerry Gold
Parents
Spouses
Children
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Southern California
  • Los Angeles City College
Died
Jul 21, 2004
Beverly Hills

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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