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Jerry Goldsmith. Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for films including Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora!
- Jerrald King Goldsmith
- 1951–2004
- February 10, 1929, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- The Omen (1976) The greatest horror score ever composed, bar none, this is a textbook example of what a soundtrack can do for its respective movie, elevating it from schlock into grippingly portentous Satanic art.
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Despite the many glorious highs of the Star Trek movie franchise, its inception came with this somewhat muddled and slow-moving, though visually majestic, debut feature, one that fails to yield the warm responses afforded to later entries in the series.
- Chinatown (1974) Amazingly, Goldsmith had only 10 days to compose his score (replacing a rejected work by Philip Lambro) for Roman Polanski’s classic neo-noir starring Jack Nicholson.
- Planet Of The Apes (1968) Although Goldsmith had been scoring movies since the late 1950s, it was this revolutionary, avant-garde work (bearing the influence of his great mentor, Alex North) that truly established him as a force to be reckoned with.
Jerry Goldsmith. Music Department: L.A. Confidential. Born on February 10, 1929, Jerry Goldsmith studied piano with Jakob Gimpel and composition, theory, and counterpoint with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He also attended classes in film composition given by Miklós Rózsa at the Univeristy of Southern California. In 1950, he was employed as a clerk typist in the music department at CBS. There ...
- February 10, 1929
- July 21, 2004
Jerry Goldsmith. Born on February 10, 1929, Jerry Goldsmith studied piano with Jakob Gimpel and composition, theory, and counterpoint with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He also attended classes in film composition given by Miklós Rózsa at the Univeristy of Southern California. In 1950, he was employed as a clerk typist in the music department at ...
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- January 1, 1
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
May 17, 2017 · In space no one can hear you scream. No matter which version of “Alien” you watch, you can't hear a huge amount of Jerry Goldsmith's music, either. With new franchise entry “Alien: Covenant” coming in the same month that composer Goldsmith receives his posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, perhaps it's time for a look at the arduous journey to creating some of the most ...
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Aug 2, 2004 · Still, Goldsmith often said he preferred small, intimate dramas, like A Patch of Blue (1965), Islands in the Stream (1977) or Rudy (1993). They offered a glimpse into the emotional side of Jerry Goldsmith, one that we often didn't hear amid all the sturm und drang of the action or sci-fi movies.
May 9, 2017 · Composer Jerry Goldsmith was honored Tuesday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was a force at the movies for more than 50 years, until his death in 2004 at the age of 75. But unlike ...
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