Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004)
For over
four decades, Jerry Goldsmith ranked among the film and television
industry's most highly-regarded and prolific composers; at the peak of
his activity during the 1960s, he was estimated to have scored an
average of about six films annually. Born in Los Angeles on February
10, 1929, Goldsmith studied music at the University of South Carolina,
and after accepting a job as an office clerk at CBS television later
graduated to the network's music department in 1950. There he composed
themes for series including Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Have Gun Will
Travel, The Twilight Zone and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. before turning to
film in 1957, debuting with the score to Black Patch. Under the
tutelage of the great Alfred Newman, Goldsmith rose to prominence with
1962's Lonely Are the Brave, and subsequently emerged as one of
Hollywood's most prolific composers. Among his credits were such
diverse offerings as Patton, Planet of the Apes, Seconds, Chinatown,
Poltergeist and Rambo: First Blood Part II; while nominated for over a
dozen Academy Awards, Goldsmith won only one, for 1976's The Omen.
Additionally, he regularly toured concert halls, performing his music
and conducting the likes of the San Diego Symphony and Britain's
Royal Philharmonic- Jason Ankeny/AllMusic
COMPOSITIONS Goldsmith Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre ~ ~ ~ Goldsmith on Goldsmith
Thunder Of Imperial Names, band (????) [written for "CBS Radio Workshop", episode "1489 Words"; re-recorded 2006]
Toccata, guitar (1950s)
Black Patch (1957)
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
City of Fear (1959)
The Twilight Zone (1959) (TV series)
Studs Lonigan (1960) [1962?]
Adam Harding (1960) ????
Thriller, TV series music (1960)
Dr.Kildare (1961)
Cain's Hundred (1961)
The General With The Cockeyed ID, industrial film score (1961) [1964?] [for Thornton Mellon's "Tall and Fat" store chain]
The Spiral Road (1962)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Freud (1962)
The Prize (1963)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
The Stripper (1963)
Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Shock Treatment (1964)
Rio Conchos (1964) [1965]
Seven Days in May (1964)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Von Ryan's Express (1965) [1964]
The Agony and The Ecstasy (1965) [Alex North wrote the film score; Goldsmith wrote music for documentary prologue to film]
A Patch of Blue (1965)
`- A Patch Of Blue, ballet adaptation (1965; adapted 1970) [choreographed for The San Francisco Ballet]
In Harm's Way (1965)
Morituri (1965) [1967]
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: "Jonah And The Whale" episode, TV series theme music (1965)
Stagecoach (1966) [Stagecoach And The Loner]
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Seconds (1966)
The Sand Pebbles (1966) [1965]
To Trap a Spy (feature film expansion of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s pilot) (1966)
The Blue Max (1966)
Our Man Flint (1966)
Jericho, TV series theme music (1966)
In Like Flint (1967)
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Warning Shot (1967)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Sebastian (1968)
The Detective (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Planet Of The Apes, ballet adaptation (1968; adapted ????)
Bandolero! (1968)
Nick Quarry, TV pilot music score (1968)
Room 222 (1969)
Justine (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
The Illustrated Man (1969)
100 Rifles (1969)
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) [1971]
The Brotherhood Of The Bell (1970)
Rio Lobo (1970) [1973]
Patton (1970)
Wild Rovers (1971)
Crosscurrent (aka The Cable Car Murders), TV pilot (shown as a TV movie) music score (1971)
The Mephisto Waltz (1971) [1972]
The Last Run (1971)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971) (basis for "The Waltons")
A Step Out Of Line (1971)
Othello, ballet adaptation (1971) [National Ballet Of Australia; also Alberta Ballet Canada, 2007]
The Other (1972)
Anna and the King, TV series music score (1972)
The Waltons, TV series music score (1972)
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1972) [1973]
Pursuit, TV film score (1972)
The Red Pony (1973) (TV movie)
Shamus (1973)
Police Story (1973) (theme and pilot score) [Police Story/Medical Story]
One Little Indian (1973)
The Don Is Dead (1973)
Papillon (1973) [1974]
Hawkins on Murder (1973) (TV movie and series theme)
Barnaby Jones, TV series theme and pilot score (1973)
Winter Kill (1973) (TV movie) [1974]
The Going Up Of David Lev (1973) [film made in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel]
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, TV film score (1974)
Chinatown (1974) [1973]
S*P*Y*S (1974)
High Velocity (1974)
QB VII (1974) (miniseries)
Christus Appollo, orchestra (1974)
Music For Orchestra (1974)
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
A Girl Named Sooner (1975) (TV movie)
Ransom (1975)
Breakout (1975)
Breakheart Pass (1975) [1976]
Babe (1975) (TV movie)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Logan's Run (1976)
The Omen (1976)
Islands in the Stream (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
The Cassandra Crossing (1977)
MacArthur (1977)
Coma (1977) [1978]
Damnation Alley (1977)
Contract on Cherry Street (1977) (TV movie)
Capricorn One (1978)
- Capricorn One, ballet adaptation (1978; adapted ????)
The Swarm (1978)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Magic (1978)
The Great Train Robbery (1979)
Alien (1979)
Players (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Cabo Blanco (1980) [Caboblanco]
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
Masada (1981) (TV miniseries, first half only - second half scored by Morton Stevens)
Outland (1981)
Night Crossing (1981)
Raggedy Man (1981)
The Salamander (1981) [1982]
The Challenge (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982)
Inchon (1982)
First Blood (1982)
Psycho II (1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Under Fire (1983)
Gremlins (1984)
Supergirl (1984)
Runaway (1984) [1985]
Lonely Guy (1984)
Legend (1985)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) [1984]
Explorers (1985)
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Amazing Stories (1986) (TV series: episode "Boo!") [1985]
Link (1986)
Hoosiers (Best Shot) (1986)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (theme only, re-arranged by Dennis McCarthy) (1987)
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Lionheart (1987)
Innerspace (1987)
Rent-A-Cop (1988)
Rambo III (1988)
Criminal Law (1988)
Alien Nation (rejected) (1988)
The 'Burbs (1989)
Leviathan (1989)
Warlock (1989)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Belling The Slayer, ballet adaptation (1989) [Ballet Met, Columbus Ohio; Cincinnati Ballet, 2000]
The Russia House (1990)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Total Recall (1990)
H.E.L.P., TV series theme music (1991)
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Mom and Dad Save the World (1991)
Medicine Man (1991) [1992]
Basic Instinct (1992)
Forever Young (1992)
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Gladiator (rejected) (1992)
Hollister, TV movie theme (1992)
Love Field (1993) [1991]
The Vanishing (1993)
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Rudy (1993)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Malice (1993)
Matinee (1993)
Angie (1994)
Bad Girls (1994)
The Shadow (1994)
The River Wild (1994)
I.Q. (1994)
Congo (1995)
First Knight (1995) [1997[
Star Trek: Voyager (1995) (TV series theme)
Powder (1995)
City Hall (1995) [1996]
Executive Decision (1996)
Two Days in the Valley (rejected) (1996)
Chain Reaction (1996)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) (additional music by Joel Goldsmith)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Fierce Creatures (1996) [1995]
Air Force One (1997) (additional music by Joel McNeely)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Edge (1997)
Frontiers (soundtrack compilation album) (1997)
Deep Rising (1998)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Mulan (1998)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
The Mummy (1999)
The Haunting (1999) [2000]
The 13th Warrior (1999)
Fireworks, A Celebration, orchestra (1999)
Hollow Man (2000)
Along Came a Spider (2001)
The Last Castle (2001)
Disney's California Adventure -Soarin (2001)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Star Trek Nemesis (2002)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Timeline (rejected) (2003)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) (Uncredited; Reused cue "Valhalla" from The 13th Warrior)
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) (Uncredited; Reused cue "Main Title" from Basic Instinct)
WORKS BY GENRE Goldsmith Links ~ ~ ~ Goldsmith on Goldsmith ~ top of page ~
Ballet Adaptations
A Patch Of Blue, ballet adaptation (1970) [choreographed for The San Francisco Ballet]
Othello, ballet adaptation (1971) [National Ballet Of Australia; also Alberta Ballet Canada, 2007]
Planet Of The Apes, ballet adaptation (1968; adapted ????)
Belling The Slayer, ballet adaptation (1989) [Ballet Met, Columbus Ohio; Cincinnati Ballet, 2000]
Capricorn One, ballet adaptation (????)
The Wind And The Lion, Masada, The Edge, Along Came A Spider, The Sum Of All Fears & The Swarm!, ballet adaptation (????)
Orchestra
Christus Appollo, orchestra (1974)
Music For Orchestra (1974)
Fireworks, A Celebration, orchestra (1999)
Band
Thunder Of Imperial Names, band (????) [written for "CBS Radio Workshop", episode "1489 Words"; re-recorded 2006]
Solo Instrument
Toccata, guitar (1950s)
Film & TV Scores - for an alphabetical list of Goldsmith's film scores see here
Black Patch (1957)
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
City of Fear (1959)
The Twilight Zone (1959) (TV series)
Studs Lonigan (1960) [1962?]
Adam Harding (1960) ????
Thriller, TV series music (1960)
Dr.Kildare (1961)
Cain's Hundred (1961)
The General With The Cockeyed ID, industrial film score (1961) [1964?] [for Thornton Mellon's "Tall and Fat" store chain]
The Spiral Road (1962)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Freud (1962)
The Prize (1963)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
The Stripper (1963)
Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Shock Treatment (1964)
Rio Conchos (1964) [1965]
Seven Days in May (1964)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Von Ryan's Express (1965) [1964]
The Agony and The Ecstasy (1965) [Alex North wrote the film score; Goldsmith wrote music for documentary prologue to film]
A Patch of Blue (1965)
In Harm's Way (1965)
Morituri (1965) [1967]
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: "Jonah And The Whale" episode, TV series theme music (1965)
Stagecoach (1966) [Stagecoach And The Loner]
The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Seconds (1966)
The Sand Pebbles (1966) [1965]
To Trap a Spy (feature film expansion of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s pilot) (1966)
The Blue Max (1966)
Our Man Flint (1966)
Jericho, TV series theme music (1966)
In Like Flint (1967)
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Warning Shot (1967)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Sebastian (1968)
The Detective (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Bandolero! (1968)
Nick Quarry, TV pilot music score (1968)
Room 222 (1969)
Justine (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
The Illustrated Man (1969)
100 Rifles (1969)
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) [1971]
The Brotherhood Of The Bell (1970)
Rio Lobo (1970) [1973]
Patton (1970)
Wild Rovers (1971)
Crosscurrent (aka The Cable Car Murders), TV pilot (shown as a TV movie) music score (1971)
The Mephisto Waltz (1971) [1972]
The Last Run (1971)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971) (basis for "The Waltons")
A Step Out Of Line (1971)
The Other (1972)
Anna and the King, TV series music score (1972)
The Waltons, TV series music score (1972)
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1972) [1973]
Pursuit, TV film score (1972)
The Red Pony (1973) (TV movie)
Shamus (1973)
Police Story (1973) (theme and pilot score) [Police Story/Medical Story]
One Little Indian (1973)
The Don Is Dead (1973)
Papillon (1973) [1974]
Hawkins on Murder (1973) (TV movie and series theme)
Barnaby Jones, TV series theme and pilot score (1973)
Winter Kill (1973) (TV movie) [1974]
The Going Up Of David Lev (1973) [film made in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel]
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, TV film score (1974)
Chinatown (1974) [1973]
S*P*Y*S (1974)
High Velocity (1974)
QB VII (1974) (miniseries)
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
A Girl Named Sooner (1975) (TV movie)
Ransom (1975)
Breakout (1975)
Breakheart Pass (1975) [1976]
Babe (1975) (TV movie)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Logan's Run (1976)
The Omen (1976)
Islands in the Stream (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
The Cassandra Crossing (1977)
MacArthur (1977)
Coma (1977) [1978]
Damnation Alley (1977)
Contract on Cherry Street (1977) (TV movie)
Capricorn One (1978)
The Swarm (1978)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Magic (1978)
The Great Train Robbery (1979)
Alien (1979)
Players (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Cabo Blanco (1980) [Caboblanco]
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
Masada (1981) (TV miniseries, first half only - second half scored by Morton Stevens)
Outland (1981)
Night Crossing (1981)
Raggedy Man (1981)
The Salamander (1981) [1982]
The Challenge (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982)
Inchon (1982)
First Blood (1982)
Psycho II (1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Under Fire (1983)
Gremlins (1984)
Supergirl (1984)
Runaway (1984) [1985]
Lonely Guy (1984)
Legend (1985)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) [1984]
Explorers (1985)
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Amazing Stories (1986) (TV series: episode "Boo!") [1985]
Link (1986)
Hoosiers (Best Shot) (1986)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (theme only, re-arranged by Dennis McCarthy) (1987)
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Lionheart (1987)
Innerspace (1987)
Rent-A-Cop (1988)
Rambo III (1988)
Criminal Law (1988)
Alien Nation (rejected) (1988)
The 'Burbs (1989)
Leviathan (1989)
Warlock (1989)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
The Russia House (1990)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Total Recall (1990)
H.E.L.P., TV series theme music (1991)
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Mom and Dad Save the World (1991)
Medicine Man (1991) [1992]
Basic Instinct (1992)
Forever Young (1992)
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Gladiator (rejected) (1992)
Hollister, TV movie theme (1992)
Love Field (1993) [1991]
The Vanishing (1993)
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Rudy (1993)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Malice (1993)
Matinee (1993)
Angie (1994)
Bad Girls (1994)
The Shadow (1994)
The River Wild (1994)
I.Q. (1994)
Congo (1995)
First Knight (1995) [1997[
Star Trek: Voyager (1995) (TV series theme)
Powder (1995)
City Hall (1995) [1996]
Executive Decision (1996)
Two Days in the Valley (rejected) (1996)
Chain Reaction (1996)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) (additional music by Joel Goldsmith)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Fierce Creatures (1996) [1995]
Air Force One (1997) (additional music by Joel McNeely)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Edge (1997)
Frontiers (soundtrack compilation album) (1997)
Deep Rising (1998)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Mulan (1998)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
The Mummy (1999)
The Haunting (1999) [2000]
The 13th Warrior (1999)
Hollow Man (2000)
Along Came a Spider (2001)
The Last Castle (2001)
Disney's California Adventure -Soarin (2001)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Star Trek Nemesis (2002)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Timeline (rejected) (2003)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) (Uncredited; Reused cue "Valhalla" from The 13th Warrior)
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) (Uncredited; Reused cue "Main Title" from Basic Instinct)
GOLDSMITH LINKS Works by Genre ~ ~ ~ Goldsmith on Goldsmith ~ top of page ~
The Film Music of Jerry Goldsmith (Ian Lace, MusicWeb International)
The Film Music of Jerry Goldsmith (Karl Lozier, enjoythemusic.com)
Five Great Forgotten Jerry Goldsmith Themes (Neil Shurley, Examiner.com)
A Further Celebration of Jerry Goldsmith (Glen Chapman, Den of Geek)
Jerry Goldsmith, 1929 - 2004 (Richard Kraft, Film Score Monthly)
Jerry Goldsmith - A Personal Obituary (Camus, DVD Outsider)
Jerry Goldsmith - Obituary (Christopher Reed, The Guardian)
Jerry Goldsmith - Obituary (The Independent)
Jerry Goldsmith - Obituary (The Telegraph)
The Measures of a Man (Bob Henderson, crouchingphotographer.com)
Remembering Movie Composer Jerry Goldsmith (Fresh Air, WHYY/NPR)
Composer website . . . inquire about Jerry Goldsmith: here
Goldsmith @ Wikipedia
Goldsmith @ Answers.com
Goldsmith @ The Blog of Death
Goldsmith @ CITWF / Complete Index to World Film
Goldsmith @ Classical Archives
Goldsmith @ Classical Composers Database
Goldsmith @ ClassicsToday
Goldsmith @ Danish Film Music Society
Goldsmith @ Evesdropping with Johnny
Goldsmith @ Facebook
Goldsmith @ Fandango
Goldsmith @ Filmbug
Goldsmith @ Film Reference also here
Goldsmith @ Film Score Click Track
Goldsmith @ Film Score Monthly (via google)
Goldsmith @ Film Score Rundowns
Goldsmith @ Filmtracks
Goldsmith @ Find a Grave
Goldsmith @ Hollywood Dreamland
Goldsmith @ IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
Goldsmith @ InstantEncore
Goldsmith @ Memory Alpha
Goldsmith @ mfiles
Goldsmith @ Movie Music UK
Goldsmith @ MSN Movies
Goldsmith @ MSN Music
Goldsmith @ MUBI
Goldsmith @ MusicWeb International
Goldsmith @ musicianguide.com
Goldsmith @ MySpaceMusic (1)
Goldsmith @ MySpaceMusic (2)
Goldsmith @ Naxos
Goldsmith @ The New York Times
Goldsmith @ NNDB
Goldsmith @ Passion for Cinema
Goldsmith @ The Rest Is Noise
Goldsmith @ SoundtrackCollector
Goldsmith @ Soundtrack Express
Goldsmith @ SoundtrackNet
Goldsmith @ SoundUnwound
Goldsmith @ Starpulse.com
Goldsmith @ Turner Classic Movies
Publisher
Goldsmith @ Composer website
Streaming Audio
Goldsmith @ Composer website
Goldsmith @ Classical Archives
Goldsmith @ last.fm
Goldsmith @ MySpaceMusic (1)
Goldsmith @ MySpaceMusic (2)
Goldsmith @ NPRmusic
Goldsmith @ NPR/Remembering Movie Composer Jerry Goldsmith (Fresh Air, WHYY/NPR)
Goldsmith @ Rhapsody.com
Recordings
Goldsmith @ ArkivMusic
Goldsmith @ ClassicsOnline
Goldsmith @ Discogs
Video
Goldsmith @ YouTube
Goldsmith @ Google Video
Goldsmith @ Vimeo
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Goldsmith on Goldsmith: Film Music Masters, 7 parts (VIDEO)
Goldsmith on Goldsmith: Interview with Terry Gross/Fresh Air (streaming audio)
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