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Jerry Goldsmith

Born: February 10, 1929, in Pasadena, California, America
Died: July 21, 2004, in Beverly Hills, California, America
Nationality: American
Era: Twentieth Century
Main genre: Film & Television Music
Main works:
Film Music:
Freud (1962) - Academy Award Nomination
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
A Patch of Blue (1965) - Academy Award Nomination
The Blue Max (1966)
Stagecoach (1966)
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Our Man Flint (1966)
The Sand Pebbles (1966) - Academy Award Nomination
In Like Flint (1967)
Planet of the Apes (1968) - Academy Award Nomination
Patton (1970) - Academy Award Nomination
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Papillon (1973) - Academy Award Nomination
Chinatown (1974) - Academy Award Nomination
The Wind and the Lion (1975) - Academy Award Nomination
Logan's Run (1976)
Omen, The (1976) - Academy Award Winner
Coma (1978)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
The Boys From Brazil (1978) - Academy Award Nomination
Capricorn One (1978)
Alien (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) - Academy Award Nomination
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
Poltergeist (1982) - Academy Award Nomination
Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Under Fire (1983) - Academy Award Nomination
Gremlins (1984)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Hoosiers (1986) - Academy Award Nomination
Rambo III (1988)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Total Recall (1990)
Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990)
Basic Instinct (1992) - Academy Award Nomination
Chain Reaction (1996)
Star Trek VIII: First Contact (1996)
L.A. Confidential (1997) - Academy Award Nomination
Mulan (1998) - Academy Award Nomination
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
The Mummy (1999)
Hollow Man (2000)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Television Music:
Studio One (1948) TV Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) TV Series
General Electric Theater (1953) TV Series
Gunsmoke (1955) TV Series
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957) TV Series
Wagon Train (1957) TV Series
Perry Mason (1957) TV Series
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958) TV Series
The Twilight Zone (1959) TV Series
Thriller (1960) TV Series
Ben Casey (1961) TV Series
Dr. Kildare (1961) TV Series (main theme)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) TV Series
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) TV Series
Room 222 (1969) TV Series
Barnaby Jones (1973) TV Series (theme)
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