JERRY GOLDSMITH
(1929 - 2004) COMPOSER OF MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES:
BIOGRAPHY, PHOTOS, FILMOGRAPHY AND DISCOGRAPHY
by D'Lynn Waldron,PhD ©2004
PHOTO: Jerry Goldsmith composer (with D'Lynn Waldron,PhD ©2002)
For a marvelous Jerry Goldsmith site go to www.jerrygoldsmithonline.com
JERRY GOLDSMITH 1929-2004 BIOGRAPHY
Jerry Goldsmith died at home on July 21, 2004, at the age of 75, after a three year battle with cancer through which he continued to create marvelous music. His perception, innovations, and dedication to serving the film made him one of a small number of truly great film composers. He gave his all to every motion picture he scored and as his daughter Carol said at his memorial, "He was his music and it was as essential to him as oxygen." In 2002, he did the brilliant score for Sum of All Fears, as well as the last of his Star Trek scores. In 2003, in an example of his amazing versatility, he did Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
Among Jerry Goldsmith's hundreds of compositions, perhaps his best known theme is the one he composed for Patton. At the memorial service, Jerry's composer son Joel Goldsmith spoke of how his father was an innovator in the use of music to explain the subtext, and how for Patton Jerry used three kinds of music to depict the three aspects of the General Patton's personality.
Jerry Goldsmith is survived by his wife, Carol, his five children Aaron, Joel, Carrie, Ellen, and Jennifer, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He is also survived by a wealth of friends who will treasure his memory and miss him greatly.
Jerry's son Joel Goldsmith is a very talented composer whose compositions include the very effective and innovative score Joel did for the four hour mini-series Helen of Troy in which he conveyed in his music the dangerous inner turmoil of the characters. Joel's score was very innovative and yet stayed within the expectations of the genre. Jerry's daughter Carol has performed vocals on many of her father's scores.
Jerrald ‘Jerry’ Goldsmith was born on February 10th, 1929, in Los Angeles. He studied the piano with Jacob Gimpel and film composition at the University of Southern California under the legendary Hungarian composer of movie music Miklós Rózsa.
Jerry Goldsmith wrote music for such 1950s and 60s TV shows as 'Wagon Train', 'Have Gun Will Travel', 'The Twilight Zone', 'Thriller', 'Dr. Kildare', and 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'.
His friend, the legendary movie composer Alfred Newman got Goldsmith the chance in 1957 to score his first film, the western 'Black Patch'.
From that beginning, Jerry Goldsmith quickly established himself as a major composer of movie music and he has written the music for over 200 films which encompass every genre. He has been nominated 17 times for an Oscar, and won for ‘The Omen’ in 1976. Among his many marvelous movie themes perhaps the best known is the one he composed for ‘Patton’.
In his seventies, Jerry Goldsmith continued to be one of the most sought after composers in the movie industry, and in 2002 he did the hit thriller ‘The Sum of All Fears’ and 'Star Trek: Nemesis’, and in 2003, "Looney Tunes: Back in Action".
JERRY GOLDSMITH FILMOGRAPHY
THE HOLLOW MAN DVD has an isolated score in 5.1 with commentary by Jerry Goldsmith, but the commentary is NOT in the Superbit version of the Special Edition.
The LEGEND DVD Collector's Edition has Jerry Goldsmith's wonderful score restored. On the DVD there is also the very inferior US theatrical release version with temp music taken from 'Psycho II' along with some fragmented pieces from Goldsmith's score. A good lesson in bad editing!
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Along Came A Spider (2001)
The Last Castle (2001)
Hollow Man (2000)
The Haunting (1999)
The Mummy (1999)
The Thirteenth Warrior (1999)
Deep Rising (1998)
Mulan (1998)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Air Force One (1997)
The Edge (1997)
Fierce Creatures (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Chain Reaction (1996)
City Hall (1996)
Executive Decision (1996)
A Family Thing (1996)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Congo (1995)
First Knight (1995)
Powder (1995)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Angie (1994)
Bad Girls (1994)
I.Q. (1994)
The River Wild (1994)
The Shadow (1994)
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Malice (1993)
Matinee (1993)
Rudy (1993)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
The Vanishing (1993)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Forever Young (1992)
Love Field (1992)
Medicine Man (1992)
Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
The Russia House (1990)
Total Recall (1990)
The 'burbs (1989)
Criminal Law (1989)
Leviathan (1989)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Warlock (1989)
Rambo III (1988)
Rent-a-Cop (1988)
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Innerspace (1987)
Lionheart (1987)
Hoosiers (1986)
Link (1986)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Baby... Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Explorers (1985)
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Legend (1985)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Gremlins (1984)
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Runaway (1984)
Supergirl (1984)
Dusty (1983)
Psycho II (1983)
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Under Fire (1983)
The Challenge (1982)
First Blood (1982)
Inchon (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
The Final Conflict (1981)
Night Crossing (1981)
Outland (1981)
Raggedy Man (1981)
The Salamander (1981)
Caboblanco (1980)
Alien (1979)
The Great Train Robbery (1979)
Players (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Capricorn One (1978)
Coma (1978)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
Magic (1978)
The Swarm (1978)
Contract on Cherry Street (1977)
Damnation Alley (1977)
High Velocity (1977)
Islands in the Stream (1977)
MacArthur (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
The Last Hard Men (1976)
Logan's Run (1976)
The Omen (1976)
Babe (1975)
Breakheart Pass (1975)
Breakout (1975)
A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
Medical Story (1975)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
The Terrorists (1975)
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Chinatown (1974)
S*P*Y*S (1974)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974)
Winter Kill (1974)
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)
The Don Is Dead (1973)
Hawkins on Murder (1973)
Indict and Convict (1973)
One Little Indian (1973)
Papillon (1973)
Police Story (1973)
The Red Pony (1973)
Shamus (1973)
The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972)
Lights Out (1972)
The Man (1972)
The Other (1972)
Pursuit (1972)
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1971)
Crawlspace (1971)
Crosscurrent (1971)
Do Not Fold
Spindle
or Mutilate (1971)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
The Going Up of David Lev (1971)
The Homecoming - A Christmas Story (1971)
The Last Run (1971)
The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Wild Rovers (1971)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Patton (1970)
Rio Lobo (1970)
A Step Out of Line (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
100 Rifles (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
The Illustrated Man (1969)
Justine (1969)
Bandolero! (1968)
The Detective (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Sebastian (1968)
The Flim Flam Man (1967)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
In Like Flint (1967)
The Karate Killers (1967)
Warning Shot (1967)
The Blue Max (1966)
One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Seconds (1966)
Stagecoach (1966)
To Trap a Spy (1966)
The Trouble With Angels (1966)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
In Harm's Way (1965)
Morituri (1965)
Our Man Flint (1965)
A Patch of Blue (1965)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Rio Conchos (1964)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Shock Treatment (1964)
The Spy With My Face (1964)
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
The Prize (1963)
The Stripper (1963)
Take Her
She's Mine (1963)
Freud (1962)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
The Spiral Road (1962)
The Crimebusters (1961)
The General with the Cockeyed ID (1961)
The Expendables (1960)
Studs Lonigan (1960)
City of Fear (1959)
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
Black Patch (1957)
Don't Bother to Knock (1952).
GOLDSMITH AWARDS
1976 Academy Awards - Winner, Best Original Score - The Omen
1998 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Musical or Comedy Score - Mulan
1997 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Dramatic Score - L.A. Confidential
1992 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Basic Instinct
1986 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Hoosiers
1983 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Under Fire
1982 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Poltergeist
1979 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1978 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - The Boys from Brazil
1976 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Song - "Ave Satani" from The Omen
1975 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - The Wind and the Lion
1974 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Chinatown
1973 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Papillon
1970 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Patton
1968 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Planet of the Apes
1966 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - The Sand Pebbles
1965 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - A Patch of Blue
1962 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Freud
1998 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Original Score - Mulan
1997 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Original Score - L.A. Confidential
1992 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Original Score - Basic Instinct
1979 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Original Score - Alien
1979 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Original Score - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1974 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Original Score - Chinatown
THE DVD OF HELEN OF TROY WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON ON AUGUST 12, 2003
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Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound
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copyright 2004 by D'Lynn Waldron