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Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith

1929–2004 · Pasadena, California, USA

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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").

Sound 219

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

    Original Music Composer

  2. 2014

    Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

    Original Music Composer

  3. From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures

    Music

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. The Alien Legacy

    Music

  3. 1998
  4. 1997
  5. 1996
  6. 1995
  7. 1994
  8. Angie

    Original Music Composer

  9. 1993
  10. 1992
  11. Mr. Baseball

    Original Music Composer

  12. 1991
  13. 1990

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. 1988
  3. 1987
  4. Police Story: The Freeway Killings

    Theme Song Performance

  5. Extreme Prejudice

    Original Music Composer, Conductor

  6. 1986
  7. Rambo: The Rescue

    Music

  8. 1985
  9. Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

    Original Music Composer

  10. 1984
  11. The Lonely Guy

    Original Music Composer

  12. 1983
  13. Cinderella Revolution

    Music

  14. 1982

    The Man Who Saved the World

    Music

  15. The Challenge

    Original Music Composer

  16. 1981

    Raggedy Man

    Original Music Composer

  17. Inchon

    Original Music Composer

  18. 1980

1970s

  1. 1979
  2. Players

    Original Music Composer

  3. 1978
  4. 1977
  5. Contract on Cherry Street

    Original Music Composer

  6. Bloodthirsty Hawk

    Music

  7. Babe

    Original Music Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

  8. Islands in the Stream

    Original Music Composer

  9. 1976
  10. High Velocity

    Original Music Composer

  11. 1975
  12. Take a Hard Ride

    Original Music Composer

  13. A Girl Named Sooner

    Original Music Composer

  14. The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

    Original Music Composer

  15. 1974
  16. S*P*Y*S

    Original Music Composer, Conductor

  17. Winter Kill

    Original Music Composer

  18. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    Original Music Composer

  19. Indict and Convict

    Original Music Composer

  20. 1973
  21. The Don Is Dead

    Original Music Composer

  22. Big John Morrison

    Original Music Composer

  23. One Little Indian

    Original Music Composer

  24. Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies

    Original Music Composer

  25. The Red Pony

    Original Music Composer

  26. Hawkins

    Original Music Composer, Conductor

  27. 1972

    Pursuit

    Original Music Composer

  28. Anna and the King

    Music

  29. The Man

    Original Music Composer

  30. The Other

    Original Music Composer, Conductor

  31. The Culpepper Cattle Co.

    Original Music Composer

  32. Crawlspace

    Original Music Composer

  33. Lights Out

    Original Music Composer

  34. 1971

    The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

    Original Music Composer

  35. Crosscurrent

    Original Music Composer

  36. Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate

    Original Music Composer

  37. The Last Run

    Original Music Composer

  38. The Mephisto Waltz

    Original Music Composer

  39. A Step Out of Line

    Original Music Composer

  40. 1970

    The Traveling Executioner

    Conductor, Original Music Composer

  41. The Brotherhood of the Bell

    Original Music Composer

  42. Prudence and the Chief

    Conductor, Original Music Composer

1960s

  1. 1969

    Justine

    Original Music Composer

  2. The Illustrated Man

    Original Music Composer

  3. 1968
  4. Sebastian

    Original Music Composer

  5. Nick Quarry

    Original Music Composer

  6. 1967
  7. The Flim-Flam Man

    Original Music Composer

  8. In Like Flint

    Original Music Composer

  9. The Spy in the Green Hat

    Music

  10. Warning Shot

    Original Music Composer

  11. 1966
  12. Our Man Flint

    Original Music Composer

  13. 1965
  14. The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint

    Music

  15. To Trap a Spy

    Original Music Composer

  16. 1964

    Rio Conchos

    Original Music Composer, Conductor

  17. Fate Is the Hunter

    Original Music Composer

  18. Shock Treatment

    Original Music Composer

  19. 1963

    The Prize

    Original Music Composer

  20. Take Her, She's Mine

    Original Music Composer

  21. A Gathering of Eagles

    Original Music Composer

  22. The Stripper

    Original Music Composer

  23. The List of Adrian Messenger

    Original Music Composer

  24. 1962

    Freud: The Secret Passion

    Original Music Composer

  25. The Spiral Road

    Original Music Composer

  26. Lonely are the Brave

    Original Music Composer, Orchestrator

  27. 1961

    The Crimebusters

    Original Music Composer

  28. 1960
  29. Studs Lonigan

    Original Music Composer

  30. Journey to the Day

    Music

1950s

  1. 1959

    Face of a Fugitive

    Original Music Composer

  2. City of Fear

    Original Music Composer

  3. 1958
  4. 1957

    Black Patch

    Original Music Composer

  5. 1954

    Casino Royale

    Original Music Composer

  6. 1952

Acted in 6

2010s

  1. 2014

    Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

    (archive footage)

2000s

  1. 2000

    666: The Omen Revealed

    Movie

1990s

  1. 1995

    Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith

    Movie

  2. 1990

Other crew 1

Appearances9

2020s

  1. 2023

    Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

    Himself

2000s

  1. 2006

    North and the Music of the South

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2003

    The Beast Within: Making Alien

    Self

  3. 2001

    Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'

    Self

  4. Imagining 'Total Recall'

    Self

1990s

  1. 1997

    Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner

    Self

  2. 1992

    King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."

    Self

No release date

  1. Monty and the Movies

    Self (archive footage)