Jerry Goldsmith
Born
February 10, 1929
Died
July 21, 2004 (75 years old)
Known For
Sound
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
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 Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (he won only one, in 1976, for the feature film "The Omen").
Known For
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
Himself
2023
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
Self
2003
666: The Omen Revealed
2000
Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner
Self
1997
Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
1995
King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."
Self
1992
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Yogurt Customer
1990
Gremlins
Pay-Phone Patron (uncredited)
1984
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
1953