Jerry Goldsmith
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Jerry Goldsmith was an American composer who created music for films and television from the 1950s until his death in 2004. He is considered one of the most important and influential film composers in Hollywood history, known for his distinctive orchestral scores for major movies across many different genres.
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- 1929-02-10
- Died
- 2004-07-21
- Works
- 6
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- Air Force One
- 'Burbs
- Total Recall
- Poltergeist
- Mulan
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Jerry Goldsmith was an American music composer and conductor for film and television productions, best known for his scores of movies like "Planet of the Apes", "Papillon", "Alien", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", and also three "Rambo" films and five "Star Trek" films. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film…
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- Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur — Himself2023
- Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins — (archive footage)2014
- North and the Music of the South — Self (archive footage)2006
- The Beast Within: Making Alien — Self2003
- 666: The Omen Revealed2000
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Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003. He was considered one of film music's most innovative and influential composers. He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1977 for The Omen), six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and four British Academy Film Awards.
He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise, three in The Omen franchise, and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for films including Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Medicine Man, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Sleeping with the Enemy, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, Rudy and The Mummy. He also composed the current fanfare for the Universal Pictures logo, which debuted in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
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