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Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an Americantelevision and moviecomposer and conductor most known for his work in Air Force One, The Mummy, Gremlins, The Omen, five Star Trek movies, three Rambo movies, Poltergeist, Alien, and the 1968 movie version of Planet of the Apes.
He has won an 1 Academy Award, 5 Emmy Awards, 1 Annie Award, and 1 Saturn Award. His career began in 1951 and would last up until his death in 2004.
Goldsmith was born on February 10, 1929 in Los Angeles, California[1] and also studied at the University of Southern California and at the Los Angeles City College.
Goldsmith has been married to Sharon Hennagin from 1950 until they divorced in 1970. Goldsmith lastly married Carol Heather from 1972 until his death in 2004. He has five children, one of his sons, Joel Goldsmith, died in 2012.
Goldsmith died on July 21, 2004 in his home in Beverly Hills, California from colon cancer, aged 75.[2]
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Preview of The Aborted Jerry Goldsmith Biography
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My father was a renowned Hollywood film composer. If he were alive, and not recently dead of cancer, he would read the preceding words and correct me irritably: “Don’t call me a ‘film composer’,” he would have said. “I’m a composer. You don’t refer to Mozart as an ‘opera’ composer.”
My father never minded admitting that once I had saved his life. He would recount a night I called and woke him out of an almost endless slumber fueled by Nembutal and Vodka without a trace of self-consciousness; to him, it was just another amusing anecdote—and he did give me credit for being a hero.
And now I’m saving his life again; this time, to disc, hard drive and paper. According to some cultures and traditions, when you save a person’s life, you become responsible for that life until it ends. Some might argue that my father will live on forever through his music, but I think forever
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Jerry Goldsmith
American film composer (1929–2004)
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| 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, orchestrator |
| Years active | 1951–2004 |
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Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003. He was considered one of film music's most innovative and influential composers.[1] He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1977 for The Omen), six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golde
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