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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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Person · Open Library
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- 6
Top works
- 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…
Known for
- 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
- Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner — Self1997
- Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith1995
- The Hollywood Soundtrack Story — Self1995
- King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast." — Self1992
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch — Yogurt Customer1990
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929
- Active to
- 2004
Discography
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Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 Los Angeles, CA, USA, – July 21, 2004 Beverly Hills, CA, USA) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator known for his work in film and television scoring over nearly five decades, from 1954 to 2003. He composed music for more than 200 productions and was recognised as one of the most innovative and influential figures in film music. Goldsmith received eighteen Academy Award nominations, winning in 1977 for his score for "The Omen". <a href="h
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Quotes
- “I admit it worked fairly well but my first reaction was to get up and walk away from the job, but I couldn't. Once you've heard music like that with the picture, it makes your own scoring more difficult to arrive at, it clouds your thinking. Later, as an inside joke, I included a snippet of the Strauss in the score-and some critic pounced on me for stealing. You can´t win.”
- “The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.”
- “You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account”
- “Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.”
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- 1929-02-10
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- 2004-07-21
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- 1947-00-00
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- Jerrald King Goldsmith
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Encyclopedic overview
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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