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Jerry Fielding (born Joshua Itzhak Feldman; June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980) was an American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist, [citation needed] to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in ...
A three-time Oscar nominee, Jerry Fielding was among the boldest and most experimental of all Hollywood film composers. His music typically utilized advanced compositional procedures, producing dense, often richly dissonant orchestral textures, sometimes flavored with jazz.
- Composer, Music Department, Soundtrack
- June 17, 1922
- Jerry Fielding
- February 17, 1980
Jerry Fielding (17 June 1922 – 17 February 1980; age 57), born Joshua Itzahk Feldman, wrote two scores for the original Star Trek series, and later in his career he earned three Academy Award nominations and won an Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Underscore (for the 1979 TV special High Midnight...
Its score, composed by Jerry Fielding, adapts the principal themes of Bizet's opera Carmen. Released by Paramount Pictures , The Bad News Bears received generally positive reviews. It was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short-lived 1979–80 CBS television ...
- $9 million
- Jerry Fielding
- April 7, 1976
- Stanley R. Jaffe
Jerry Fielding is known as an Original Music Composer, Music, Conductor, Actor, Orchestrator, and Music Arranger. Some of his work includes Escape from Alcatraz, The Wild Bunch, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Straw Dogs, The Enforcer, The Gauntlet, Johnny Got His Gun, and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.
Jerry Fielding was an artist who formed close creative partnerships with his directors; chief among them were Michael Winner, Clint Eastwood and, most notably, Sam Peckinpah. In 1967, after scoring many television shows such as Mission Impossible and Star Trek, Fielding scored Noon Wine, a contemporary TV western directed by Peckinpah.
Jerry Fielding, Dan Carlin and Chris Newman were guests of a Workshop on Sound and Music in the Cinema presented by the Appalachian Regional Media Center in Athens, Ohio, October 5-7, 1979. The well-known Hollywood composer, Jerry Fielding, began studying music in his late teens with Max Atkins.
