Jerry Goldsmith
Highest Rated: 100% The Detective (1968)
Lowest Rated: 8% King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Birthday: Feb 10, 1929
Birthplace: Pasadena, California, USA
His scores for "Planet of the Apes" (1968), "The Omen" (1976), "Star Trek, the Motion Picture" (1979), "Alien" (1979), and "Poltergeist" (1982) made him the king of science fiction and horror movie music, but veteran film composer Jerry Goldsmith had more to offer than mere thrills and chills. A one-time student of acclaimed composer Miklós Rózsa, Goldsmith channeled his passion for classical composition into his work on such prestige pictures as "Lonely Are the Brave" (1962), "Lilies of the Field" (1963), and "Patton" (1970), the latter of which garnered him one of many Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score. During his journeyman years as an in-house composer for the Columbia Broadcasting System, Goldsmith was an indispensable component of such long-running television series as "Playhouse 90," "Dr. Kildare," "The Twilight Zone" and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." but his stock in the film industry rose via his associations with such A-list directors as John Huston, Otto Preminger, John Sturges, and Franklin J. Schaffner. In the bell lap of his long and distinguished career, Goldsmith became the composer of choice for such new talents as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Joe Dante and Curtis Hanson, while his scoring for the revived "Star Trek" franchise won him a new generation of followers. Cut down by cancer in 2004, Goldsmith had long since attained enshrinement as a top-flight Hollywood composer, able to bridge the distant past and the unforeseeable future with an infectious measure of wonder and optimism.
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Jerry Goldsmith
Filmography
Movies
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57% |
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Original Music | $21.0M | 2003 |
94% |
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Alien: The Director's Cut | Original Music | - | 2003 |
38% |
|
Star Trek: Nemesis | Original Music | $500.0K | 2002 |
59% |
|
The Sum of All Fears | Original Music | $118.5M | 2002 |
52% |
|
The Last Castle | Original Music | $18.2M | 2001 |
32% |
|
Along Came a Spider | Original Music | $74.1M | 2001 |
26% |
|
Hollow Man | Music | $73.2M | 2000 |
33% |
|
The 13th Warrior | Original Music | $32.7M | 1999 |
17% |
|
The Haunting | Original Music | $91.2M | 1999 |
62% |
|
The Mummy | Original Music | - | 1999 |
49% |
|
Small Soldiers | Original Music | $55.1M | 1998 |
55% |
|
Star Trek: Insurrection | Original Music | $70.2M | 1998 |
30% |
|
U.S. Marshals | Original Music | $57.8M | 1998 |
36% |
|
Deep Rising | Original Music | $11.2M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All About Alfred | Unknown (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | US Marshalls | Original Music | - | 1998 |
99% |
|
L.A. Confidential | Original Music | $64.6M | 1997 |
62% |
|
The Edge | Original Music | $27.8M | 1997 |
79% |
|
Air Force One | Original Music | $172.7M | 1997 |
58% |
|
City Hall | Original Music | $20.0M | 1996 |
62% |
|
Executive Decision | Original Music | $55.7M | 1996 |
18% |
|
Chain Reaction | Original Music | $20.6M | 1996 |
50% |
|
The Ghost and the Darkness | Original Music | $38.6M | 1996 |
93% |
|
Star Trek: First Contact | Original Music | $92.0M | 1996 |
13% |
|
Bad Girls | Original Music | $15.2M | 1994 |
45% |
|
I.Q. | Original Music | $25.2M | 1994 |
63% |
|
The River Wild | Original Music | $46.5M | 1994 |
57% |
|
Malice | Original Music | $46.0M | 1993 |
93% |
|
Matinee | Original Music | $8.9M | 1993 |
88% |
|
Six Degrees of Separation | Original Music | $6.3M | 1993 |
78% |
|
Rudy | Original Music | $20.7M | 1993 |
27% |
|
Dennis the Menace | Original Music | $50.2M | 1993 |
49% |
|
The Vanishing | Original Music | $13.4M | 1993 |
11% |
|
Mr. Baseball | Original Music | $20.3M | 1992 |
55% |
|
Basic Instinct | Original Music | - | 1992 |
40% |
|
Love Field | Original Music | $519.2K | 1992 |
24% |
|
Sleeping With the Enemy | Original Music | $100.3M | 1991 |
82% |
|
Total Recall | Original Music | $117.8M | 1990 |
71% |
|
Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Original Music | $40.5M | 1990 |
56% |
|
Warlock | Original Music | $8.3M | 1989 |
23% |
|
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | Original Music | $52.1M | 1989 |
33% |
|
Criminal Law | Original Music | $9.1M | 1988 |
41% |
|
Rambo III | Original Music | $53.7M | 1988 |
73% |
|
Extreme Prejudice | Original Music | $9.9M | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
|
Lionheart | Original Music | - | 1987 |
91% |
|
Hoosiers | Original Music | $25.8M | 1986 |
72% |
|
Explorers | Original Music | - | 1985 |
12% |
|
Baby ... Secret of the Lost Legend | Original Music | - | 1985 |
8% |
|
King Solomon's Mines | Original Music | $13.4M | 1985 |
33% |
|
Rambo: First Blood Part II | Original Music | $150.2M | 1985 |
46% |
|
Runaway | Music | - | 1984 |
86% |
|
Gremlins | Original Music | - | 1984 |
60% |
|
Twilight Zone: The Movie | Original Music | - | 1983 |
62% |
|
Psycho II | Original Music | - | 1983 |
88% |
|
Poltergeist | Original Music | $121.8M | 1982 |
86% |
|
First Blood | Music | - | 1982 |
93% |
|
The Secret of NIMH | Original Music | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Salamander | Original Music | - | 1981 |
54% |
|
Outland | Original Music | - | 1981 |
83% |
|
Raggedy Man | Original Music | - | 1981 |
52% |
|
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Original Music | - | 1979 |
93% |
|
Alien | Original Music | $82.6M | 1979 |
14% |
|
Players | Original Music | - | 1979 |
70% |
|
The Boys From Brazil | Original Music | - | 1978 |
77% |
|
The Great Train Robbery | Original Music | - | 1978 |
50% |
|
Damien: Omen II | Original Music | - | 1978 |
81% |
|
Coma | Original Music | - | 1978 |
65% |
|
Capricorn One | Original Music | - | 1978 |
87% |
|
Magic | Original Music | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Contract on Cherry Street | Original Music | - | 1977 |
45% |
|
MacArthur | Original Music | - | 1977 |
45% |
|
Damnation Alley | Original Music | - | 1977 |
36% |
|
The Cassandra Crossing | Original Music | - | 1977 |
58% |
|
Logan's Run | Music | - | 1976 |
85% |
|
The Omen | Original Music | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
|
Take a Hard Ride | Original Music | - | 1975 |
63% |
|
The Wind and the Lion | Original Music | - | 1975 |
68% |
|
Breakheart Pass | Original Music | - | 1975 |
57% |
|
Breakout | Original Music | - | 1975 |
50% |
|
The Terrorists | Original Music | - | 1974 |
98% |
|
Chinatown | Original Music | - | 1974 |
25% |
|
Shamus | Original Music | - | 1973 |
73% |
|
Papillon | Original Music | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
|
One Little Indian | Original Music | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies | Original Music | - | 1973 |
60% |
|
Wild Rovers | Original Music | - | 1971 |
76% |
|
Escape From the Planet of the Apes | Original Music | - | 1971 |
94% |
|
The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Original Music | - | 1970 |
70% |
|
Rio Lobo | Original Music | - | 1970 |
91% |
|
Patton | Original Music | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
|
100 Rifles | Original Music | - | 1969 |
40% |
|
The Illustrated Man | Original Music | - | 1969 |
100% |
|
The Detective | Original Music | - | 1968 |
20% |
|
Bandolero! | Original Music | - | 1968 |
86% |
|
Planet of the Apes | Original Music | - | 1968 |
68% |
|
In Like Flint | Original Music | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
|
Warning Shot | Original Music | - | 1967 |
88% |
|
Hour of the Gun | Original Music | - | 1967 |
79% |
|
Seconds | Original Music | - | 1966 |
100% |
|
The Blue Max | Original Music | - | 1966 |
85% |
|
The Sand Pebbles | Original Music | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
|
Stagecoach | Original Music | - | 1966 |
57% |
|
The Satan Bug | Original Music | - | 1965 |
90% |
|
Von Ryan's Express | Original Music | - | 1965 |
75% |
|
Morituri | Original Music | - | 1965 |
37% |
|
In Harm's Way | Original Music | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prologue: The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint | Music | - | 1965 |
43% |
|
Rio Conchos | Original Music | - | 1964 |
92% |
|
Seven Days in May | Original Music | - | 1964 |
40% |
|
Fate Is the Hunter | Original Music | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shock Treatment | Original Music | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
|
A Gathering of Eagles | Original Music | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
|
Take Her, She's Mine | Original Music | - | 1963 |
64% |
|
The List of Adrian Messenger | Original Music | - | 1963 |
92% |
|
Lilies of the Field | Original Music | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Stripper | Original Music | - | 1963 |
93% |
|
Lonely Are the Brave | Original Music | - | 1962 |
60% | No Score Yet | Studs Lonigan | Original Music | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
|
City of Fear | Original Music | - | 1959 |