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Jerry Goldsmith

Feb 10, 1929 - Jul 21, 2004 (75 years old) in Pasadena, California, USA

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

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The Oscars
Self
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Gremlins
Pay-Phone Patron (uncredited)
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Yogurt Customer
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The Beast Within: Making Alien
Self
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Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
(archive footage)
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Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
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666: The Omen Revealed
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Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner
Self
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King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."
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Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
Himself

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