Jerry Goldsmith was an American music composer and conductor for film and television productions, best known for his scores of movies like "Planet of the Apes", "Papillon", "Alien", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", and also three "Rambo" films and five "Star Trek" films. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (he won only one, in 1976, for the feature film "The Omen").
Academy Awards
Best Original Score
Known For
Alien
(1979)
Original Music Composer
The Omen
(1976)
Original Music Composer
Chinatown
(1974)
Original Music Composer
Total Recall
(1990)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The 'Burbs
(1989)
Original Music Composer
Logan's Run
(1976)
Original Music Composer
Planet of the Apes
(1968)
Original Music Composer
U.S. Marshals
(1998)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Psycho II
(1983)
Original Music Composer
Mulan
(1998)
Original Music Composer
First Blood
(1982)
Original Music Composer
The Mummy
(1999)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Malice
(1993)
Original Music Composer
Legend
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Gremlins
(1984)
Original Music Composer
Congo
(1995)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Full Filmography
Sound
Don't Bother to Knock
(1952)
Music Consultant
Casino Royale
(1954)
Original Music Composer
Black Patch
(1957)
Original Music Composer
Days of Wine and Roses
(1958)
Original Music Composer
City of Fear
(1959)
Original Music Composer
Face of a Fugitive
(1959)
Original Music Composer
Studs Lonigan
(1960)
Original Music Composer
Flaming Star
(1960)
Music
Freud: The Secret Passion
(1962)
Original Music Composer
Lonely Are the Brave
(1962)
Original Music Composer
The Spiral Road
(1962)
Music
The Prize
(1963)
Original Music Composer
The Stripper
(1963)
Original Music Composer
The List of Adrian Messenger
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Lilies of the Field
(1963)
Original Music Composer
A Gathering of Eagles
(1963)
Music
Take Her, She's Mine
(1963)
Original Music Composer
Seven Days in May
(1964)
Original Music Composer
To Trap a Spy
(1964)
Original Music Composer
Rio Conchos
(1964)
Original Music Composer
Fate Is the Hunter
(1964)
Original Music Composer
Shock Treatment
(1964)
Music
In Harm's Way
(1965)
Original Music Composer
The Satan Bug
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Von Ryan's Express
(1965)
Original Music Composer
A Patch of Blue
(1965)
Original Music Composer
Morituri
(1965)
Original Music Composer
The Artist Who did Not Want to Paint
(1965)
Music
The Blue Max
(1966)
Original Music Composer
The Sand Pebbles
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Seconds
(1966)
Original Music Composer
The Trouble with Angels
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Our Man Flint
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Stagecoach
(1966)
Original Music Composer
Warning Shot
(1967)
Original Music Composer
Hour of the Gun
(1967)
Original Music Composer
In Like Flint
(1967)
Original Music Composer
The Flim-Flam Man
(1967)
Original Music Composer
The Spy in the Green Hat
(1967)
Music
Planet of the Apes
(1968)
Original Music Composer
The Detective
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Bandolero!
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Sebastian
(1968)
Original Music Composer
Nick Quarry
(1968)
Original Music Composer
100 Rifles
(1969)
Original Music Composer
The Illustrated Man
(1969)
Original Music Composer
Justine
(1969)
Original Music Composer
The Chairman
(1969)
Original Music Composer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Patton
(1970)
Original Music Composer
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Rio Lobo
(1970)
Original Music Composer
The Traveling Executioner
(1970)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The Brotherhood of the Bell
(1970)
Original Music Composer
Prudence and the Chief
(1970)
Music and Conductor
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
(1971)
Original Music Composer
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
(1971)
Original Music Composer
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
(1971)
Original Music Composer
The Mephisto Waltz
(1971)
Original Music Composer
A Step Out of Line
(1971)
Original Music Composer
Crosscurrent
(1971)
Original Music Composer
The Last Run
(1971)
Original Music Composer
Wild Rovers
(1971)
Original Music Composer
Pursuit
(1972)
Original Music Composer
The Man
(1972)
Original Music Composer
The Other
(1972)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Crawlspace
(1972)
Original Music Composer
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
(1972)
Original Music Composer
Lights Out
(1972)
Original Music Composer
Shamus
(1973)
Original Music Composer
The Going Up of David Lev
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Papillon
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
(1973)
Original Music Composer
One Little Indian
(1973)
Original Music Composer
The Don Is Dead
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Big John Morrison
(1973)
Original Music Composer
Chinatown
(1974)
Original Music Composer
S*P*Y*S
(1974)
Original Music Composer
Winter Kill
(1974)
Original Music Composer
Ransom
(1974)
Original Music Composer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
(1974)
Original Music Composer
Indict and Convict
(1974)
Music
Breakheart Pass
(1975)
Original Music Composer
The Wind and the Lion
(1975)
Original Music Composer
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
(1975)
Original Music Composer
Babe
(1975)
Original Music Composer
Breakout
(1975)
Original Music Composer
Take a Hard Ride
(1975)
Original Music Composer
A Girl Named Sooner
(1975)
Original Music Composer
The Omen
(1976)
Original Music Composer
Logan's Run
(1976)
Original Music Composer
The Cassandra Crossing
(1976)
Original Music Composer
High Velocity
(1976)
Original Music Composer
The Last Hard Men
(1976)
Original Music Composer
Capricorn One
(1977)
Original Music Composer
Damnation Alley
(1977)
Original Music Composer
Islands in the Stream
(1977)
Original Music Composer
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(1977)
Original Music Composer
Contract on Cherry Street
(1977)
Original Music Composer
MacArthur
(1977)
Music
Damien: Omen II
(1978)
Original Music Composer
Coma
(1978)
Original Music Composer
The First Great Train Robbery
(1978)
Original Music Composer
Magic
(1978)
Original Music Composer
The Boys from Brazil
(1978)
Original Music Composer
The Swarm
(1978)
Original Music Composer
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
(1979)
Original Music Composer
Alien
(1979)
Original Music Composer
Players
(1979)
Original Music Composer
Cabo Blanco
(1980)
Original Music Composer
Outland
(1981)
Original Music Composer
The Final Conflict
(1981)
Original Music Composer
Inchon
(1981)
Original Music Composer
The Salamander
(1981)
Original Music Composer
Raggedy Man
(1981)
Original Music Composer
Poltergeist
(1982)
Original Music Composer
First Blood
(1982)
Original Music Composer
The Secret of NIMH
(1982)
Original Music Composer
The Challenge
(1982)
Original Music Composer
Night Crossing
(1982)
Original Music Composer
Psycho II
(1983)
Original Music Composer
Under Fire
(1983)
Original Music Composer
Twilight Zone: The Movie
(1983)
Original Music Composer
Gremlins
(1984)
Original Music Composer
Supergirl
(1984)
Original Music Composer
Runaway
(1984)
Original Music Composer
The Lonely Guy
(1984)
Original Music Composer
Rambo: First Blood Part II
(1985)
Original Music Composer
King Solomon's Mines
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Explorers
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Legend
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
(1985)
Original Music Composer
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
(1986)
Original Music Composer
Hoosiers
(1986)
Original Music Composer
Link
(1986)
Original Music Composer
Rambo: The Rescue
(1986)
Music
Innerspace
(1987)
Original Music Composer
Extreme Prejudice
(1987)
Original Music Composer
Lionheart
(1987)
Original Music Composer
Rent-a-Cop
(1987)
Original Music Composer
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
(1987)
Theme Song Performance
Rambo III
(1988)
Original Music Composer
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
(1989)
Original Music Composer
Warlock
(1989)
Original Music Composer
Leviathan
(1989)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The 'Burbs
(1989)
Original Music Composer
Criminal Law
(1989)
Original Music Composer
Total Recall
(1990)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
(1990)
Original Music Composer
The Russia House
(1990)
Original Music Composer
Sleeping with the Enemy
(1991)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Not Without My Daughter
(1991)
Original Music Composer
Basic Instinct
(1992)
Original Music Composer
Forever Young
(1992)
Original Music Composer
Medicine Man
(1992)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Mr. Baseball
(1992)
Original Music Composer
Mom and Dad Save the World
(1992)
Original Music Composer
Love Field
(1992)
Original Music Composer
Malice
(1993)
Original Music Composer
Rudy
(1993)
Original Music Composer
Dennis the Menace
(1993)
Original Music Composer
The Vanishing
(1993)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Matinee
(1993)
Original Music Composer
Six Degrees of Separation
(1993)
Original Music Composer
Bad Girls
(1994)
Original Music Composer
The River Wild
(1994)
Original Music Composer
Angie
(1994)
Original Music Composer
I.Q.
(1994)
Original Music Composer
The Shadow
(1994)
Original Music Composer
Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...
(1994)
Main Title Theme Composer
Congo
(1995)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
First Knight
(1995)
Original Music Composer
Powder
(1995)
Original Music Composer
Star Trek: First Contact
(1996)
Original Music Composer
Executive Decision
(1996)
Original Music Composer
The Ghost and the Darkness
(1996)
Original Music Composer
Chain Reaction
(1996)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
City Hall
(1996)
Original Music Composer
L.A. Confidential
(1997)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The Edge
(1997)
Original Music Composer
Air Force One
(1997)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Fierce Creatures
(1997)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Star Trek: Insurrection
(1998)
Original Music Composer
Mulan
(1998)
Original Music Composer
U.S. Marshals
(1998)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Deep Rising
(1998)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Small Soldiers
(1998)
Original Music Composer
The Mummy
(1999)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The Haunting
(1999)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
The 13th Warrior
(1999)
Original Music Composer
The Alien Legacy
(1999)
Music
Hollow Man
(2000)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Along Came a Spider
(2001)
Original Music Composer
The Last Castle
(2001)
Original Music Composer
Star Trek: Nemesis
(2002)
Original Music Composer
The Sum of All Fears
(2002)
Original Music Composer and Conductor
Drawing Blood
(2002)
Original Music Composer
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
(2003)
Original Music Composer
The Beast Within: Making Alien
(2003)
Music
From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures
(2014)
Music
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
(2014)
Original Music Composer
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
(2019)
Original Music Composer
Acting
Gremlins
(1984)
Pay-Phone Patron (uncredited)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
(1990)
Yogurt Customer
King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."
(1992)
Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
(1995)
Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner
(1997)
Self
666: The Omen Revealed
(2000)
The Beast Within: Making Alien
(2003)
Self
North and the Music of the South
(2006)
Self (archive footage)
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
(2014)
(archive footage)