Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such films as Star Trek: The Motion Picture and four other films within the Star Trek franchise, The Sand Pebbles, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Wind and the Lion, The Omen, The Boys from Brazil, Capricorn One, Alien, Outland, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Rudy, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, The Mummy, three Rambo films, and Explorers. In May 1997, with the release of Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, he gained more popularity with his fanfare of the 1997 Universal Studios opening logo, which would be among the most iconic studio logo music of all time.
He collaborated with some of film history's most accomplished directors, including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Richard Donner, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Michael Winner, Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J. Schaffner. His work for Donner and Scott also involved a rejected score for Timeline and a controversially edited score for Alien, where music by Howard Hanson replaced Goldsmith's end titles and Goldsmith's own work on Freud: The Secret Passion was used without his approval in several scenes.
Goldsmith 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 Omen). He composed the Paramount Pictures Fanfare used from 1976 through 2011.
He composeed the Max Steiner's Warner Bros. Fanfare that used in Gremlins and Innerspace
Filmography[]
- Black Patch (1957)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- The Illustrated Man (1969)
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
- The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) (TV Film)
- Rio Lobo (1970) (National General Pictures)
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
- Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) (Lorimar)
- Capricorn One (1978)
- The Swarm (1978)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
- Outland (1981)
- The Secret of NIMH (1982)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
- Gremlins (1984)
- Supergirl (1984)
- Innerspace (1987)
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
- Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
- Forever Young (1992)
- Dennis the Menace (1993)
- Malice (1993) (Castle Rock Entertainment/New Line Cinema)
- City Hall (1996) (Castle Rock Entertainment)
- Executive Decision (1996)
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
- L.A. Confidential (1997) (The Wolper Organization)
- U.S. Marshals (1998)
- Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
- Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
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