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Gerald Fried
Sign in to saveAmerican composer, conductor, and oboist (1928–2023)
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- 1
Top works
- Essential Lincoln
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Film & TV
Gerald Fried (February 13, 1928 – February 17, 2023) was an American composer, conductor, and oboist known for his film and television scores. He composed music for well-known television series of the 1960s and 1970s, including Mission: Impossible, Gilligan's Island, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Shotgun Slade, Roots, and Star Trek. Early in his career, he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick, scoring…
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1928-02-13
- Active to
- 2023-02-17
Discography
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Gerald Fried (born 13 February 1928) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning composer and musician from New York City. He attended what is now Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School as an oboe major and went on to play in numerous groups such as the L.A. Philharmonic and the Little Orchestra Society. He became a composer through "luck" since he "was the only musician Stanley Kubrick knew." After working in Kubrick's "Day of the Fight", he went on to a long and prolific career making film
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gerald
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Place of death
- Bridgeport
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Instrument
- oboe
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Gerald Fried
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
- date of birth
- 1928-02-13
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Gerald Fried
- date of death
- 2023-02-17
- cause of death
- pneumonia
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