Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for five films in the ''Star Trek'' franchise and three in the ''Rambo'' franchise, as well as for films including ''Logan's Run'', ''Planet of the Apes'', ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', ''Patton'', ''Papillon'', ''Chinatown'', ''The Omen'', ''Alien'', ''Poltergeist'', ''The Secret of NIMH'', ''Medicine Man'', ''Gremlins'', ''Hoosiers'', ''Total Recall'', ''Basic Instinct'', ''Air Force One'', ''L.A. Confidential'', ''Mulan'', and ''The Mummy''. He also composed the fanfares accompanying the production logos used by multiple major film studios, and music for the Disney attraction ''Soarin'''.

He collaborated with directors including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Richard Donner, Richard Fleischer, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton, Roman Polanski, Gordon Douglas, Fred Schepisi, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J. Schaffner. His work for Donner and Scott also involved a rejected score for ''Timeline'' and a controversially edited score for ''Alien'', where music by Howard Hanson replaced Goldsmith's end titles and Goldsmith's own work on ''Freud: The Secret Passion'' was used without his approval in several scenes.

Goldsmith was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1976 for ''The Omen''). Provided by Wikipedia