Biography
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 several of his earliest films. Fried was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning once in 1977 for Roots, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the documentary Birds Do It, Bees Do It (1974).
Sound 80
2020s
- 2020
Unbelievable!!!!!
Original Music Composer
1980s
- 1988
Roots: The Gift
Original Music Composer
Drop-Out Mother
Music
- 1985
Embassy
Music
- 1984
The Mystic Warrior
Music
Australia's Animal Mysteries
Original Music Composer
- 1983
A Killer in the Family
Original Music Composer
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
Original Music Composer
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Music
- 1982
Murder Is Easy
Original Music Composer
- 1981
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
Original Music Composer
- 1980
The Wild and the Free
Original Music Composer
The Silent Lovers
Original Music Composer
Flamingo Road
Music
Gauguin the Savage
Original Music Composer
Condominium
Original Music Composer
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Music
1970s
- 1979
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Original Music Composer
The Seekers
Original Music Composer
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
Original Music Composer
The Rebels
Original Music Composer
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
Original Music Composer
The Bell Jar
Original Music Composer
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Original Music Composer
- 1978
The Immigrants
Original Music Composer
The Beasts Are on the Streets
Original Music Composer
Maneaters Are Loose!
Original Music Composer
Cruise Into Terror
Original Music Composer
- 1977
Sex and the Married Woman
Original Music Composer
Testimony of Two Men
Original Music Composer
- 1976
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Original Music Composer
- 1975
I Will Fight No More Forever
Original Music Composer
- 1974
Birds Do It, Bees Do It
Music
- 1973
- 1971
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
The Image of the City
Music
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Original Music Composer
- 1968
Danger Has Two Faces
Original Music Composer
The Killing of Sister George
Original Music Composer
- 1967
The Karate Killers
Original Music Composer
- 1966
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Original Music Composer
One Spy Too Many
Original Music Composer
Deathwatch
Music, Original Music Composer
- 1964
One Potato, Two Potato
Original Music Composer
- 1962
The Cabinet of Caligari
Original Music Composer
- 1961
The Second Time Around
Original Music Composer
Twenty Plus Two
Original Music Composer
A Cold Wind in August
Original Music Composer
1950s
- 1959
High School Big Shot
Original Music Composer
- 1958
Timbuktu
Original Music Composer
The Lost Missile
Original Music Composer
The Flame Barrier
Original Music Composer
- 1957
Dino
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Trooper Hook
Original Music Composer
Bayou
Original Music Composer
- 1956
- 1955
- 1953
- 1951
Day of the Fight
Music
