Jerry Goldsmith
Birthday
1929/02/10
Day of death
2004/07/21 (75 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Also know as
Jerrald King Goldsmith, Jerrald K. Goldsmith, Jerrald Goldsmith, Michael Hennagin, Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith
Biography
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").
Acting
(2006) North and the Music of the South
as Self (archive footage)
(1990) Gremlins 2: The New Batch
as Yogurt Customer
(2000) 666: The Omen Revealed
as ---
(1995) Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
as ---
(2023) Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
as Himself
(2003) The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self
(1992) King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."
as Self
(1997) Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner
as Self
(2014) Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
as (archive footage)
(1984) Gremlins
as Pay-Phone Patron (uncredited)
(1953) The Oscars
as Self