Jerry Goldsmith-- 1929-2004

[MA-Caver]

July 22, 2004

Jerry Goldsmith, the Academy Award-winning composer who wrote music for numerous Star Trek films and episodes - including the opening themes for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager as well as several motion pictures - died yesterday at age 75.

Goldsmith passed away in his sleep on Wednesday night after a long struggle with cancer. The classically trained composer had been nominated for 17 Academy Awards, winning one Oscar in addition to five Emmy Awards.

Genre fans know Goldsmith's music not only from Star Trek but from Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Total Recall and the classic horror film The Omen for which he won his Academy Award trophy. But Goldsmith also wrote the scores for many dramatic films, including Chinatown, Patton and L.A. Confidential, and for many television shows, among which were The Waltons, Dr. Kildare and the fanfare used during Academy Awards broadcasts.

Born in 1929 in Los Angeles, Goldsmith studied with classical musicians but decided after seeing Spellbound that he wanted to compose for film. A job as a typist at CBS led to assignments composing for radio shows. His first Academy Award nomination was for Freud in 1962.

Among Goldsmith's Star Trek scores are Star Trek: The Motion Picture, whose title theme he adapted for Star Trek: The Next Generation; the music for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis; and themes used most recently in the Star Trek: The Experience show Borg Invasion 4D.

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List of films scored by Goldsmith....http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000025/
ok, imdb shows that he scored at least 300 films/teleplays/tv shows etc. So here's a few... TV (television...natch) MP (Motion Picture)
GE Theater (1953-- TV)
Gunsmoke (1955 -- TV)
Have Gun Will Travel (1957 -- TV)
Wagon Train (1957 -- TV)
Perry Mason (1957 -- TV)
The Twilight Zone (1959 -- TV)
The Fugitive (1963 -- TV)
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (1964 -- TV)
Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964 --TV)
In Harm's Way (1965 -- MP)
Von Ryan's Express (1965 -- MP)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965 -- MP-- (prologue))
Our Man Flint (1966 -- MP)
The Blue Max (1966 -- MP)
Planet Of The Apes (1968 -- MP)
Patton (1970 -- MP) ...one of my fav. soundtracks
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970 -- MP)
The Waltons (1972 -- TV)
Barnaby Jones (1973 -- TV)
Papillon (1973 -- MP)
Police Story (1973 -- TV)
The Omen (1976 -- MP)
Logan's Run (1977 -- TV)
Coma (1978 --MP)
The Boys From Brazil (1978 -- MP)
Alien (1979 -- MP)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979 --MP)
Poltergeist (1982 --MP)
First Blood (Rambo I) (1982 --MP)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983 -- MP)
Gremlins (1984 -- MP)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985--MP)
Aliens (1986 -- MP)
Hoosiers (1986 -- MP)
Innerspace (1987 --MP)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 -- TV)
Alien Nation (1988 -- MP)
The 'burbs (1989 -- MP)
Total Recall (1990 -- MP)
Not Without My Daughter (1991 --MP)
Sleeping With The Enemy (1991 -- MP)
Basic Instinct (1992 -- MP)
Forever Young (1992 -- MP)
Rudy (1993 -- MP)
The River Wild (1994 -- MP)
Star Trek Voyager (1995 -- TV)
Congo (1995 -- MP)
First Knight (1995 -- MP)
Powder (1995 -- MP)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996 -- MP)
L.A. Confidential (1997 -- MP)
Air Force One (1997 -- MP)
Stargate: SG-1 (1997 -- TV)
Mulan (1998 -- MP)
The Mummy (1999 -- MP)
The 13th Warrior (1999 -- MP)
Hollow Man (2000 -- MP)
73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001 --TV)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002 -- MP)
Afghanistan: Land In Crisis (2002 -- Video)
75th Annual Academy Awards (2003 -- TV)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003 -- MP)
76th Annual Academy Awards (2004 -- TV)
Star Trek: The Experience-Borg Invasion 4-D (2004) MP
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There were many more and many of the above were a surprise (at least to me)... a great composer. He will be missed. :asian:

 

[michaeledward]

I have always found Goldsmith's music to be like comfortable sneakers ...very comfortable. Often, I'll see his name at the end credits and the say, "Well, of course" as I reflect on the music score.

 

[tshadowchaser]

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RIP