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Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith

Sound1929Pasadena, California, USA

Biography

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 Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (he won only one, in 1976, for the feature film "The Omen").

Acting History

Future
Film Tribute Video Vol.2
as Desafio Total
2023
2020
2019
2014
2006
North and the Music of the South
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Original Music Composer
2002
The Sum of All Fears
Original Music Composer
Star Trek: Nemesis
Original Music Composer
2001
The Last Castle
Original Music Composer
Along Came a Spider
Original Music Composer
2000
Hollow Man
Original Music Composer
Hollow Man
Conductor
1999
The Haunting
Original Music Composer
The Haunting
Conductor
The Mummy
Original Music Composer
The Mummy
Conductor
The 13th Warrior
Original Music Composer
1998
U.S. Marshals
Original Music Composer
U.S. Marshals
Conductor
Star Trek: Insurrection
Original Music Composer
Deep Rising
Original Music Composer
Deep Rising
Conductor
Mulan
Original Music Composer
Small Soldiers
Original Music Composer
1997
Air Force One
Original Music Composer
Air Force One
Conductor
The Edge
Original Music Composer
Fierce Creatures
Original Music Composer
L.A. Confidential
Original Music Composer
1996
City Hall
Original Music Composer
Chain Reaction
Original Music Composer
Executive Decision
Original Music Composer
Star Trek: First Contact
Original Music Composer
The Ghost and the Darkness
Original Music Composer
1995
Powder
Original Music Composer
First Knight
Original Music Composer
Congo
Original Music Composer
Congo
Conductor
Star Trek: Voyager
TVMain Title Theme Composer
1994
I.Q.
Original Music Composer
The River Wild
Original Music Composer
Angie
Original Music Composer
Bad Girls
Original Music Composer
The Shadow
Original Music Composer
1993
The Vanishing
Conductor
The Vanishing
Original Music Composer
Dennis the Menace
Original Music Composer
Matinee
Original Music Composer
Malice
Original Music Composer
Rudy
Original Music Composer
Six Degrees of Separation
Original Music Composer
1992
Medicine Man
Original Music Composer
Medicine Man
Conductor
Mom and Dad Save the World
Original Music Composer
Forever Young
Original Music Composer
Basic Instinct
Original Music Composer
Love Field
Original Music Composer
Mr. Baseball
Original Music Composer
1991
Not Without My Daughter
Original Music Composer
Sleeping with the Enemy
Original Music Composer
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
as Yogurt Customer
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Original Music Composer
Total Recall
Original Music Composer
Total Recall
Music Producer
Total Recall
Orchestrator
Total Recall
Conductor
The Russia House
Original Music Composer
1989
Warlock
Original Music Composer
Criminal Law
Original Music Composer
Leviathan
Original Music Composer
Leviathan
Conductor
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Original Music Composer
The 'Burbs
Original Music Composer
1988
Rambo III
Original Music Composer
1987
Rent-a-Cop
Original Music Composer
Lionheart
Original Music Composer
Extreme Prejudice
Original Music Composer
Innerspace
Original Music Composer
1986
Hoosiers
Original Music Composer
Link
Original Music Composer
Link
Conductor
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories
TVMusic• 1 eps
1985
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Original Music Composer
King Solomon's Mines
Original Music Composer
Explorers
Original Music Composer
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Original Music Composer
Legend
Original Music Composer
1984
Gremlins
as Pay-Phone Patron (uncredited)
Runaway
Original Music Composer
Gremlins
Original Music Composer
The Lonely Guy
Original Music Composer
Supergirl
Original Music Composer
1983
Under Fire
Original Music Composer
Psycho II
Original Music Composer
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Original Music Composer
1982
The Secret of NIMH
Original Music Composer
First Blood
Original Music Composer
The Challenge
Original Music Composer
Poltergeist
Original Music Composer
Night Crossing
Original Music Composer
1981
The Salamander
Original Music Composer
Raggedy Man
Original Music Composer
Outland
Original Music Composer
The Final Conflict
Original Music Composer
Inchon
Original Music Composer
Masada
TVOriginal Music Composer
1980
Caboblanco
Original Music Composer
1979
Players
Original Music Composer
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Original Music Composer
Alien
Original Music Composer
1978
Coma
Original Music Composer
Magic
Original Music Composer
The Swarm
Original Music Composer
Damien - Omen II
Original Music Composer
The Boys from Brazil
Original Music Composer
The First Great Train Robbery
Original Music Composer
1977
The Oscars
TVas Self• 1 eps
Contract on Cherry Street
Original Music Composer
MacArthur
Conductor
MacArthur
Original Music Composer
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Original Music Composer
Damnation Alley
Original Music Composer
Capricorn One
Original Music Composer
Islands in the Stream
Original Music Composer
Babe
Original Music Composer
Babe
Conductor
Babe
Orchestrator
1976
High Velocity
Original Music Composer
The Cassandra Crossing
Original Music Composer
The Last Hard Men
Original Music Composer
Logan's Run
Original Music Composer
The Omen
Original Music Composer
1975
Take a Hard Ride
Original Music Composer
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Original Music Composer
Breakout
Original Music Composer
A Girl Named Sooner
Original Music Composer
The Wind and the Lion
Original Music Composer
Medical Story
Original Music Composer
Breakheart Pass
Original Music Composer
1974
Ransom
Original Music Composer
Indict and Convict
Original Music Composer
S*P*Y*S
Original Music Composer
S*P*Y*S
Conductor
Chinatown
Original Music Composer
Winter Kill
Original Music Composer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Original Music Composer
1973
Shamus
Original Music Composer
One Little Indian
Original Music Composer
The Don Is Dead
Original Music Composer
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Original Music Composer
The Red Pony
Original Music Composer
The Going Up of David Lev
Original Music Composer
Big John Morrison
Original Music Composer
Papillon
Original Music Composer
Hawkins
TVConductor• 1 eps
Hawkins
TVOriginal Music Composer• 1 eps
1972
The Other
Original Music Composer
The Other
Conductor
Lights Out
Original Music Composer
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Original Music Composer
Crawlspace
Original Music Composer
Pursuit
Original Music Composer
The Man
Original Music Composer
The Waltons
TVMain Title Theme Composer
1971
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Original Music Composer
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Original Music Composer
A Step Out of Line
Original Music Composer
Crosscurrent
Original Music Composer
The Last Run
Original Music Composer
Wild Rovers
Original Music Composer
The Mephisto Waltz
Original Music Composer
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Original Music Composer
1970
The Traveling Executioner
Original Music Composer
Prudence and the Chief
Original Music Composer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Original Music Composer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Music Arranger
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Orchestrator
Rio Lobo
Original Music Composer
Rio Lobo
Conductor
Patton
Original Music Composer
Patton
Conductor
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Original Music Composer
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Original Music Composer
1969
Justine
Original Music Composer
100 Rifles
Original Music Composer
The Illustrated Man
Original Music Composer
The Chairman
Original Music Composer
1968
Planet of the Apes
Original Music Composer
Sebastian
Original Music Composer
The Detective
Original Music Composer
Nick Quarry
Original Music Composer
Bandolero
Original Music Composer
1967
The Flim-Flam Man
Original Music Composer
In Like Flint
Original Music Composer
Hour of the Gun
Original Music Composer
Warning Shot
Original Music Composer
1966
The Blue Max
Original Music Composer
The Trouble with Angels
Original Music Composer
Our Man Flint
Original Music Composer
The Sand Pebbles
Original Music Composer
Stagecoach
Original Music Composer
Seconds
Original Music Composer
1965
In Harm's Way
as Piano Player (uncredited)
Morituri
Original Music Composer
A Patch of Blue
Original Music Composer
The Satan Bug
Original Music Composer
Von Ryan's Express
Original Music Composer
In Harm's Way
Original Music Composer
To Trap a Spy
Original Music Composer
The Loner
TVOriginal Music Composer
1964
Fate Is the Hunter
Original Music Composer
Shock Treatment
Original Music Composer
Rio Conchos
Original Music Composer
Rio Conchos
Conductor
Seven Days in May
Original Music Composer
1963
The List of Adrian Messenger
Original Music Composer
The Stripper
Original Music Composer
Lilies of the Field
Original Music Composer
A Gathering of Eagles
Original Music Composer
Take Her, She's Mine
Original Music Composer
The Prize
Original Music Composer
1962
Lonely are the Brave
Original Music Composer
The Spiral Road
Original Music Composer
Freud: The Secret Passion
Original Music Composer
1961
The Crimebusters
Original Music Composer
Man on the Beach
Original Music Composer
The Grim Reaper
Original Music Composer
1960
Studs Lonigan
Original Music Composer
1959
City of Fear
Original Music Composer
Face of a Fugitive
Original Music Composer
1958
Days of Wine and Roses
Original Music Composer
1957
Black Patch
Original Music Composer
1954
Casino Royale
Original Music Composer
1952
Don't Bother to Knock
Music Consultant

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Personal Info

Known For
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/10/1929
Day of Death
7/21/2004
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA