Jerry Goldsmith
Birthday: 1929-02-10
Place of Birth: Pasadena, California, USA
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").
Movies
North and the Music of the South
The score of Alex North for A Streetcar Named Desire is analyzed....
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soo...
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666: The Omen Revealed
Documentary about the making of The Omen, featuring interviews with Richard Donner, Harvey Bernhard,...
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Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
A limited DVD (1500 copies) of "Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith" was released in June 2005. Bonu...
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Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
Franklin J. Schaffner is the man behind a great many iconic American films: Planet of the Apes (1968...
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The Beast Within: Making Alien
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew tra...
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King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."
Documentary on the making of the 1933 RKO film King Kong. Contains interviews with George Turner, Li...
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Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner
Almost everyone who worked with director Franklin J. Schaeffer on the film is interviewed here, incl...
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Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
This new retrospective features new interviews with director Joe Dante, star Zach Galligan, writer C...
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Gremlins
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three i...
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