Jerrald King Goldsmith was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring.
70 Facts About Jerry Goldsmith
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Jerry Goldsmith composed the fanfares accompanying the production logos used by multiple major film studios, and music for the Disney attraction Soarin'.
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Jerry Goldsmith collaborated with directors including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Richard Donner, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J Schaffner.
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Jerry Goldsmith was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards.
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Jerry Goldsmith was born February 10,1929, in Los Angeles, California.
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Jerry Goldsmith's parents were Tessa, a school teacher, and Morris Goldsmith, a structural engineer.
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Jerry Goldsmith started playing piano at age six, but only "got serious" by the time he was eleven.
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At age sixteen, Jerry Goldsmith saw the 1945 film Spellbound and was inspired by Miklos Rozsa's unconventional score to pursue a career in music.
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Jerry Goldsmith later enrolled and attended the University of Southern California where he was able to attend courses by Rozsa, but dropped out in favor of a more "practical music program" at the Los Angeles City College.
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In 1950, Jerry Goldsmith found work at CBS as a clerk typist in the network's music department under director Lud Gluskin.
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Jerry Goldsmith scored multiple episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone.
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Jerry Goldsmith continued with scores to such films as the western Face of a Fugitive, and the science fiction film City of Fear.
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Jerry Goldsmith began the decade composing for such television shows as Dr Kildare, Gunsmoke, and Thriller as well as the drama film The Spiral Road.
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That same year, Jerry Goldsmith composed the mostly atonal and dissonant score to the biopic Freud that focused on a five-year period of the life of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
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Jerry Goldsmith's score led to him gaining his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, though he lost to fellow first-time nominee Maurice Jarre for his music to Lawrence of Arabia.
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Jerry Goldsmith almost did not accept the assignment for The Blue Max when he watched the final cut with the producers who had temp-tracked it with Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra.
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Jerry Goldsmith gained attention for the score of the post-apocalyptic science fiction film Planet of the Apes, which was one of the first to be written entirely in an Avant garde style.
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When scoring Planet of the Apes, Jerry Goldsmith used such innovative techniques as looping drums into an echoplex, using the orchestra to imitate the grunting sounds of apes, having horns blown without mouthpieces, and instructing the woodwind players to finger their keys without using any air.
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Jerry Goldsmith used stainless steel mixing bowls, among other objects, to create unique percussive sounds.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed the theme for the comedy-drama television series Room 222 which debuted in 1969.
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In 1973, Jerry Goldsmith wrote the theme for the TV series Barnaby Jones.
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Jerry Goldsmith was faced with the daunting task of replacing a score by composer Phillip Lambro to the neo-film noir Chinatown.
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Jerry Goldsmith received an Academy Award nomination for his efforts though he lost to Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola for The Godfather Part II.
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Jerry Goldsmith earned further critical praise with his score to the period adventure film The Wind and the Lion, which relied upon a diverse ensemble including many Moroccan instruments and a large percussion section.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed a dark choral score to the horror film The Omen, which was the first film score to feature the use of a choir in an avant-garde style.
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Jerry Goldsmith would go on to compose for two more entries in the franchise; Damien: Omen II and Omen III: The Final Conflict.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed a score to the science fiction film Alien.
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Jerry Goldsmith's score featured an orchestra augmented by an Indian conch horn, didgeridoo, steel drum, and serpent, while creating further "alien" sounds by delaying string pizzicati through an echoplex.
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Jerry Goldsmith's score was heavily edited during post-production and Goldsmith was required to rewrite music for several scenes.
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Director Ridley Scott and editor Terry Rawlings, without Jerry Goldsmith's consent, purchased the rights to the "Main Title" from Freud which they used during the acid blood sequence.
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Jerry Goldsmith concluded the decade composing the score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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Jerry Goldsmith heard it and immediately decided to use it for V'Ger's cues.
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Jerry Goldsmith was hired to compose the music to the Tobe Hooper-directed horror film Poltergeist.
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Jerry Goldsmith wrote several themes for the film including a gentle lullaby for the protagonist Carol Anne and her family's suburban life, a semi-religious theme for scenes concerning the souls trapped between the two worlds, and bombastic atonal bursts during scenes of horror.
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Jerry Goldsmith did still manage to compose for such non-fantasy productions as the period television miniseries Masada winning an Emmy Award, the war film Inchon, the action adventure First Blood, and his Oscar- and Golden Globe Award-nominated score to political drama Under Fire in which he used the ethnic sounds of a South American pan flute, synthetic elements, and the prominently featured solo work of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.
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Jerry Goldsmith garnered another Oscar nomination for his innovative, critically acclaimed score to sports drama Hoosiers, though he lost to Herbie Hancock for Round Midnight.
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Jerry Goldsmith finished out the decade with noteworthy scores to such films as the science-fiction fantasy family film Explorers, medieval adventure Lionheart, science fiction comedy Innerspace, action film Rambo III, the science fiction horror Leviathan, and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, his second Star Trek film score.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed critically acclaimed music for the science fiction action film Total Recall, which Goldsmith later regarded as one of his best scores.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed a critically acclaimed score for the medical drama Medicine Man.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed and conducted a score to the erotic thriller Basic Instinct.
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Jerry Goldsmith wrote an acclaimed score for the classic sports film Rudy, which has since been used in the trailers for numerous films including Angels in the Outfield, Good Will Hunting, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and Seabiscuit.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed the theme for the UPN series Star Trek: Voyager for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed the critically successful score to the horror action film The Ghost and the Darkness which featured a traditional Irish folk melody interwoven with African rhythms.
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Jerry Goldsmith was hired to replace a score by Randy Newman for Air Force One.
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Jerry Goldsmith's score garnered him Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations, and was one of the AFI's 250 nominees for the top twenty-five American film scores.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed a new theme for the Universal Pictures opening logo, first heard in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and the short version for the Universal Television closing logo, first heard on The Tom Show.
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Jerry Goldsmith continued with scores for such films as the 1997 survival drama The Edge, his fourth Star Trek film installment, Star Trek: Insurrection, the science fiction horror Deep Rising, the action thriller US Marshals and the science fiction film Small Soldiers.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed a score of combined Eastern, orchestral, and synthetic elements for the Disney-animated film Mulan, which subsequently earned him his final Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations along with songwriter Matthew Wilder and lyricist David Zippel.
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Jerry Goldsmith concluded the decade with critically successful scores to such popular films as action adventure horror The Mummy, the horror film The Haunting, and the action adventure The 13th Warrior.
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Jerry Goldsmith had composed the scores to five of the first ten Star Trek movies up to that point.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed an original score to the simulator attraction Soarin' Over California which debuted February 8,2001 at the Disneyland Resort, and the same attraction Soarin which opened May 5,2005 in Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort.
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However, due to a complicated post-production process, Jerry Goldsmith's score had to be replaced.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed the fanfares accompanying the production logos for multiple major film studios.
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Jerry Goldsmith composed the 1976 fanfare for Paramount Pictures, which was used mainly for their home video label, as well as the 1988 Carolco Pictures fanfare and the Cinergi Pictures fanfare, with Bruce Broughton conducting the fanfare.
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Jerry Goldsmith was first married to Sharon Hennagin in 1950; they divorced in 1970.
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Jerry Goldsmith married Carol Heather in 1972, and the couple remained together until his death in 2004.
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Jerry Goldsmith's oldest son Joel Goldsmith was a composer and collaborated with his father on the score for Star Trek: First Contact, composing approximately twenty-two minutes of the score.
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Jerry Goldsmith conducted Joel's theme for The Untouchables and composed the theme for the pilot Hollister, scored by Joel.
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Carrie Jerry Goldsmith was working on a biography of her father, though the book has been suspended indefinitely for unspecified reasons.
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Jerry Goldsmith died from colon cancer at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on July 21,2004, at the age of 75.
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Jerry Goldsmith was greatly influenced by movements of early 20th-century classical music, notably modernism, Americana, impressionism, dodecaphonism, and early film scores.
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Jerry Goldsmith has cited Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Miklos Rozsa, Bernard Herrmann, Bela Bartok, and Alban Berg, among others, as some of the main influences to his style of composition.
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Jerry Goldsmith's style has been noted for its unique instrumentation, utilizing a vast array of ethnic instruments, recorded sounds, synthetic textures, and the traditional orchestra, often concurrently.
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Jerry Goldsmith was commissioned to score the features, Von Ryan's Express and Morituri.
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Jerry Goldsmith went on to compose the scores for Our Man Flint, The Trouble with Angels, The Blue Max, The Sand Pebbles, and Stagecoach.
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Morton was there providing his orchestration services, assisting Jerry Goldsmith in attaining his visionary sounds.
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Jerry Goldsmith has been considered one of film music history's most innovative and influential composers.
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In 1991, Jerry Goldsmith received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.
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On May 9,2017, Jerry Goldsmith posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the music industry, located at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Jerry Goldsmith is one of only five composers to have more than one score featured in the list, including Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, and John Williams.