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").
Filmography
all 225
Movies 218
self 9
TV Shows 7
Producer 1
Original Music Composer

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration (2019)
Movie
(archive footage) / Original Music Composer

Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins (2014)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Movie
7.33
Original Music Composer

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Movie
5.46
Original Music Composer / Conductor

The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Movie
5.64
Original Music Composer

Drawing Blood (2002)
Movie
Original Music Composer

The Last Castle (2001)
Movie
Self - Composer

Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct' (2001)
Movie
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Hollow Man (2000)
Movie
5.43
Original Music Composer

The 13th Warrior (1999)
Movie
4.29
Original Music Composer / Conductor

The Haunting (1999)
Movie
4.5
Original Music Composer / Conductor

The Mummy (1999)
Movie
7.48
Original Music Composer

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Movie
5.47
Original Music Composer

Small Soldiers (1998)
Movie
4
Original Music Composer

Mulan (1998)
Movie
6.89
Original Music Composer / Conductor

U.S. Marshals (1998)
Movie
6.76
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Deep Rising (1998)
Movie
5.09
Original Music Composer / Conductor

L.A. Confidential (1997)
Movie
5.1
Original Music Composer

The Edge (1997)
Movie
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Air Force One (1997)
Movie
6.15
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Fierce Creatures (1997)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Movie
5.9
Original Music Composer

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Chain Reaction (1996)
Movie
5.33
Original Music Composer

Executive Decision (1996)
Movie
5.9
Original Music Composer

City Hall (1996)
Movie
6
Composer

Powder (1995)
Movie
Composer

First Knight (1995)
Movie
4.33
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Congo (1995)
Movie
5.65
Main Title Theme Composer

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
TV
6.25
Composer

I.Q. (1994)
Movie
5.78
Original Music Composer

The River Wild (1994)
Movie
8
Original Music Composer

The Shadow (1994)
Movie
4.88
Original Music Composer

Bad Girls (1994)
Movie
6.38
Original Music Composer

Angie (1994)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Malice (1993)
Movie
Composer

Rudy (1993)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer

Dennis the Menace (1993)
Movie
5
Conductor / Original Music Composer

The Vanishing (1993)
Movie
8
Original Music Composer

Matinee (1993)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Forever Young (1992)
Movie
6
Composer

Love Field (1992)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Mr. Baseball (1992)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Basic Instinct (1992)
Movie
5.83
Composer

Medicine Man (1992)
Movie
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Movie
4.75
Original Music Composer

Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Movie
Original Music Composer

The Russia House (1990)
Movie
2
Yogurt Customer / Original Music Composer

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer / Music Producer / Orchestrator / Conductor

Total Recall (1990)
Movie
6.26
Original Music Composer

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Movie
5.52
Original Music Composer

Warlock (1989)
Movie
4.45
Original Music Composer

Criminal Law (1989)
Movie
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Leviathan (1989)
Movie
6.67
Original Music Composer

The 'Burbs (1989)
Movie
5.96
Original Music Composer

Rambo III (1988)
Movie
5.74
Composer

Rent-a-Cop (1987)
Movie
Composer

Lionheart (1987)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Innerspace (1987)
Movie
6.75
Theme Song Performance

Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Hoosiers (1986)
Movie
4.33
Original Music Composer

Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Movie
5.83
Composer

Link (1986)
Movie
Composer

King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Legend (1985)
Movie
5
Original Music Composer

Explorers (1985)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Movie
5.54
Original Music Composer

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Runaway (1984)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Supergirl (1984)
Movie
6.61
Pay-Phone Patron (uncredited) / Original Music Composer

Gremlins (1984)
Movie
5.92
Original Music Composer

The Lonely Guy (1984)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer

Under Fire (1983)
Movie
4
Original Music Composer

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Psycho II (1983)
Movie
5.25
Original Music Composer

First Blood (1982)
Movie
5.84
Composer

The Challenge (1982)
Movie
Original Music Composer

The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Movie
3.5
Original Music Composer

Poltergeist (1982)
Movie
5.76
Composer

Night Crossing (1982)
Movie
Composer

Raggedy Man (1981)
Movie
Composer

Outland (1981)
Movie
5
Composer

Inchon (1981)
Movie
Composer

The Salamander (1981)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Masada (1981)
TV
Original Music Composer

The Final Conflict (1981)
Movie
5.59
Composer

Cabo Blanco (1980)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Movie
5.82
Composer

Players (1979)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Alien (1979)
Movie
5.96
Original Music Composer

The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
Movie
1
Original Music Composer

Magic (1978)
Movie
Original Music Composer

The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Movie
5.61
Composer

The Swarm (1978)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer

Damien: Omen II (1978)
Movie
5.25
Original Music Composer

Coma (1978)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Capricorn One (1977)
Movie
4.72
Original Music Composer

Damnation Alley (1977)
Movie
10
Original Music Composer / Conductor

MacArthur (1977)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Islands in the Stream (1977)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Movie
Composer

High Velocity (1976)
Movie
Original Music Composer

The Omen (1976)
Movie
5.34
Original Music Composer

Logan's Run (1976)
Movie
5.41
Original Music Composer

The Last Hard Men (1976)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Breakheart Pass (1975)
Movie
Composer

Take a Hard Ride (1975)
Movie
Composer

Babe (1975)
Movie
Composer

Medical Story (1975)
Movie
Composer

A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
Movie
Original Music Composer

The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Movie
Composer

Breakout (1975)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Ransom (1974)
Movie
Composer

S*P*Y*S (1974)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Chinatown (1974)
Movie
6.14
Composer

Winter Kill (1974)
Movie
Composer

Indict and Convict (1974)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Papillon (1973)
Movie
3.67
Composer

The Don Is Dead (1973)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Big John Morrison (1973)
Movie
Composer

One Little Indian (1973)
Movie
Composer

The Red Pony (1973)
Movie
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Hawkins (1973)
TV
Composer

Shamus (1973)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Pursuit (1972)
Movie
Main Title Theme Composer / Main Title Theme Composer / Music

The Waltons (1972)
TV
6
Composer

The Man (1972)
Movie
Composer

The Other (1972)
Movie
6
Composer

Crawlspace (1972)
Movie
Composer

Lights Out (1972)
Movie
Composer

Crosscurrent (1971)
Movie
Composer

The Last Run (1971)
Movie
Composer

Wild Rovers (1971)
Movie
Composer

The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Movie
Composer

A Step Out of Line (1971)
Movie
Composer

Rio Lobo (1970)
Movie
4.33
Original Music Composer

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Movie
6
Composer

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer

Patton (1970)
Movie
4.33
Composer

Justine (1969)
Movie
Composer

The Chairman (1969)
Movie
Composer

100 Rifles (1969)
Movie
Composer

The Illustrated Man (1969)
Movie
Composer

Bandolero! (1968)
Movie
Original Music Composer

The Detective (1968)
Movie
Original Music Composer / Compositor

Planet of the Apes (1968)
Movie
6.43
Composer

Sebastian (1968)
Movie
Composer

Nick Quarry (1968)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Hour of the Gun (1967)
Movie
Composer

The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Movie
Original Music Composer

In Like Flint (1967)
Movie
4
Original Music Composer

Warning Shot (1967)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer

The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Seconds (1966)
Movie
6
Composer

The Blue Max (1966)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Stagecoach (1966)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Our Man Flint (1966)
Movie
3.88
Composer

A Patch of Blue (1965)
Movie
Composer

Morituri (1965)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Movie
Composer

In Harm's Way (1965)
Movie
4
Composer

The Satan Bug (1965)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Movie
Composer

Rio Conchos (1964)
Movie
Original Music Composer

To Trap a Spy (1964)
Movie
Original Music Composer

The Prize (1963)
Movie
Composer

Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
Movie
Original Music Composer

A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Movie
Composer

The Stripper (1963)
Movie
Composer

Lilies of the Field (1963)
Movie
6
Original Music Composer

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)
Movie
Composer

The Spiral Road (1962)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Lonely are the Brave (1962)
Movie
Composer

Man on the Beach (1961)
Movie
Composer

The Crimebusters (1961)
Movie
Composer

Studs Lonigan (1960)
Movie
Composer

Face of a Fugitive (1959)
Movie
Composer

City of Fear (1959)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Black Patch (1957)
Movie
Original Music Composer

Casino Royale (1954)
Movie
Music Consultant

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Movie
Information
Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1929-02-10
Deathday2004-07-21 (75 years old)
Birth NameJerrald King Goldsmith
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, United States
ReligionJudaism
ChildrenEllen Goldsmith Edson, Jennifer Goldsmith, Carrie Goldsmith, Aaron Goldsmith, Joel Goldsmith
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsJerrald King Goldsmith, Jerrald K. Goldsmith, Jerrald Goldsmith, Michael Hennagin, Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Emmy Award
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