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Jerry Fielding
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American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer (1922-1980)
Film & TV
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
A three-time Oscar nominee, Jerry Fielding was among the boldest and most experimental of all Hollywood film composers. His music typically utilized advanced compositional procedures, producing dense, often richly dissonant orchestral textures, sometimes flavored with jazz. Fielding's film music career was marked by enduring and rewarding collaborations with Sam Peckinpah, Michael Winner and…
Known for
- The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage — Self1996
- The Mike Douglas Show — sELF1961
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1922-06-17
- Active to
- 1980-02-17
Discography
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Jerry Fielding (June 17, 1922 - February 17, 1980) was an American film composer. Although best remembered for the bold, evocative film scores he composed for tough-guy filmmakers Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood, Jerry Fielding was also a premier arranger of the swing era, later headlining a series of space age pop LPs as well. Born Joshua Feldman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fielding was a child prodigy who claimed among his earliest influences Bernard Herrmann 's pioneering scores for the rad
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- Place of death
- Toronto
- Occupation
- music director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Record label
- Decca
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1922-06-17
- date of death
- 1980-02-17
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Jerry Fielding
- birth name
- Joshua Itzhak Feldman
- alternative name
- Gerald Feldman
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Jerry Fielding
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