Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith
Goldsmith in 2003
Background information
Birth name	Jerrald King Goldsmith
Born	(1929-02-10)February 10, 1929 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	July 21, 2004(2004-07-21) (aged 75) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Genres	Film score, contemporary classical music
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor
Instrument(s)	Piano
Years active	1951–2004
Spouse(s)	Sharon Hennagin ​ ​ (m. 1950; div. 1970)​ Carol Heather ​ (m. 1972)​

Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Chinatown, Alien, Poltergeist, Medicine Man Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, and The Mummy. He also composed the fanfares accompanying the production logos used by multiple major film studios, and music for the Disney attraction Soarin'.

He collaborated with directors including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Richard Donner, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J. Schaffner. His work for Donner and Scott also involved a rejected score for Timeline and a controversially edited score for Alien, where music by Howard Hanson replaced Goldsmith's end titles and Goldsmith's own work on Freud: The Secret Passion was used without his approval in several scenes.

Goldsmith was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1976 for The Omen).