Jerry Goldsmith

Biography

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").

Known For

Gremlins

as Pay-Phone Patron (uncredited)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

as Yogurt Customer

The Oscars

as Self

The Beast Within: Making Alien

as Self

666: The Omen Revealed

Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

as (archive footage)

Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith

North and the Music of the South

as Self (archive footage)

Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

as Himself

King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."