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Gerald Fried

Known for: Sound

Biography: 1928-02-13

Deathday: 2023-02-17 (95 years old)

Biography

Gerald Fried (February 13, 1928 – February 17, 2023) was an American composer, conductor, and oboist known for his film and television scores. He composed music for well-known television series of the 1960s and 1970s, including Mission: Impossible, Gilligan's Island, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Shotgun Slade, Roots, and Star Trek. Early in his career, he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick, scoring several of his earliest films.

Fried was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning once in 1977 for Roots, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the documentary Birds Do It, Bees Do It (1974).

Filmography

all 87

Movies 79

TV Shows 8

Composer

Gerald Fried

Biography

Filmography

all 87

Movies 79

TV Shows 8

Unbelievable!!!!! (2020)

Roots: The Gift (1988)

Drop-Out Mother (1988)

Embassy (1985)

The Mystic Warrior (1985)

The Mystic Warrior (1984)

Australia's Animal Mysteries (1984)

A Killer in the Family (1983)

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983)

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)

Murder Is Easy (1982)

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981)

Dynasty (1981)

The Wild and the Free (1980)

The Silent Lovers (1980)

Flamingo Road (1980)

Gauguin the Savage (1980)

Condominium (1980)

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980)

The Seekers (1979)

Disaster on the Coastliner (1979)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (1979)

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (1979)

The Rebels (1979)

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979)

The Bell Jar (1979)

Roots: The Next Generations (1979)

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979)

The Immigrants (1978)

Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)

The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978)

Maneaters Are Loose! (1978)

Cruise Into Terror (1978)

Sex and the Married Woman (1977)

Testimony of Two Men (1977)

The Spell (1977)

Roots (1977)

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976)

Vigilante Force (1976)

Survive! (1976)

I Will Fight No More Forever (1975)

Birds Do It, Bees Do It (1974)

The Baby (1973)

The Grissom Gang (1971)

Too Late the Hero (1970)

The Image of the City (1969)

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)

Danger Has Two Faces (1968)

The Killing of Sister George (1968)

The Karate Killers (1967)

One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)

Mission: Impossible (1966)

Star Trek (1966)

One Spy Too Many (1966)

Deathwatch (1966)

Trial at Nuremberg (1964)

One Potato, Two Potato (1964)

To the Moon and Beyond (1964)

Ten Seconds that Shook the World (1963)

The Story Of: A Rodeo Cowboy (1963)

The Great Rights (1963)

The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)

The Second Time Around (1961)

Twenty Plus Two (1961)

A Cold Wind in August (1961)

Timbuktu (1959)

High School Big Shot (1959)

Cast a Long Shadow (1959)

I, Mobster (1959)

The Lost Missile (1958)

Terror in a Texas Town (1958)

The Cry Baby Killer (1958)

Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)

I Bury the Living (1958)

Known For
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1928-02-13

Deathday
2023-02-17 (95 years old)

Citizenships
United States of America