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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.
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 ...
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Beverly Hills, California, USA
- 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.
May 9, 2017 · Composer Jerry Goldsmith, shown in 2000, wrote the scores for more than 200 films over a 50-year career. Composer Jerry Goldsmith was honored Tuesday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He ...
Aug 2, 2004 · He was probably the most respected working composer in Hollywood. Jerry Goldsmith, who died July 21 at the age of 75, was very much a man of his time. He started at the bottom (typing scripts at CBS until he got a chance to write music for radio) and built a career that had no real precedent. He toiled in television for years, slowly amassing ...
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Learn about Jerry Goldsmith, an American composer and conductor who wrote scores for classic films such as "Planet of the Apes", "Chinatown" and "Star Trek". Find out his achievements, awards, influences and legacy in this comprehensive biography.
Jul 25, 2004 · Enigmatic composer Jerry Goldsmith died this past Wednesday at the age of 75. Though he created hundreds of film scores and won an Oscar, Goldsmith never achieved the fame of some of his peers.
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