Jerry Goldsmith
Musician and Actor
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Chinatown (Centennial Collection) (Review)...recognize the irony in the daylight and the sunny twist on the genre's play with light and shadow from the earlier film. Jerry Goldsmith's mournful score is hard to shake after watching the film, and while it hasn't been as universally... In this article: Chinatown, Robert Towne, Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, and John Alonzo |
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Blogcritics: News | 3 days ago
MIGS 09: Dead Space: A Musical Post Mortem
...with an orchestra as a composer and trained with TV and film industry veterans. He worked with greats in the industry, including Jerry Goldsmith who worked on many classic films such as Alien, Poltergeist and Chinatown. Graves recognized...
In this article: Alien, Poltergeist, and Chinatown
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all about jazz | November 04, 2009
Let's Party: Anthony Wilson Trio, Joel Frahm and Bruce Katz, James Carter et al.
...Jack McDuff behind Wilson's electrifying solo, and Van Dyke Parks' "Orange Crate Art" shows how to bring Sexy to any gathering. Even Jerry Goldsmith's theme from Chinatown works here, as Wilson's stripped down blues arrangement brings out...
In this article: Christian McBride, Aretha Franklin, Anthony Wilson, Adam Rogers, Street of Dreams, John Medeski, and Joey Baron
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New Kerala | October 28, 2009
Hitchcock's Psycho shower music named scariest movie theme tune
...a crescendo when Norman Bates kills Marion (Janet Leigh) to death, which leaves her blood to pour down the plughole. It pipped Jerry Goldsmith''s Ave Satani song, which featured in The Omen, to land the honour. Hans Zimmer''s ''Samara''s...
In this article: Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, The Ring, Norman Bates, Hans Zimmer, Mike Oldfield, Bernard Hermann, Janet Leigh, and Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 27, 2009
Mr. Beaks Attends The 10th Anniversary Celebration Of THE IRON GIANT! Calls For A Theatrical Re-Release!
...bombed. *We were shown the work-reel version of Hogarth's initial search for the Giant in the forest. It was mostly temp-scored to Jerry Goldsmith's "Hyper Sleep" cue from ALIEN. The studio didn't like this sequence. They found it...
In this article: The Iron Giant, Brad Bird, Warner Bros., DVD, The Incredibles, Thomas Hart Benton, Disney, and AICN
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The Huffington Post | October 24, 2009
William Bradley: Chinatown's 35th Anniversary Edition and the Polanski Scandal
...Anthea Sylbert, Chinatown, Ewan McGregor, Faye Dunaway, Godfather, Governor Pat Brown, Jack Nicholson, James Bond, Jane Fonda. Mad Men, Jerry Goldsmith, John Huston, Kim Cattrall, Los Angeles, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Sylbert, Robert Evans,...
In this article: Roman Polanski, Chinatown, Jack Nicholson, Robert Towne, Robert Evans, Faye Dunaway, Oscar, and The Ghost
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 22, 2009
A Movie A Day: DEAD OF NIGHT (1977) <BR><i>It has nothing to do with time… The dead of night is a state of mind.</i>
...old people stories, but I do love the joy of this segment. It looks like a million bucks, totally Spielberg framing and focus, and Jerry Goldsmith's score (one of the only movies Spielberg ever filmed not scored by John Williams, by the way) is...
In this article: Dead of Night, John Landis, Vic Morrow, Steven Spielberg, Ed Begley Jr., Patrick Macnee, DVD, and Joe Dante
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Neatorama | October 20, 2009
Themes From Scary Movies
...them are on Cinematical's list. One of the seven is one of my favorite movies of the genre, Poltergeist, music by Jerry Goldsmith. Jerry Goldsmith previously contributed a classic horror theme with his score for Richard Donner's Omen, but...
In this article: Rosemary's Baby and Poltergeist
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L.A. Times - Entertainment News | October 18, 2009
Music review: John Williams conducts the LA Phil at Disney Hall
..."Scene d'amour" from "Vertigo" fared somewhat better. Of the noir threesome - music from Franz Waxman's "Sunset Boulevard," Jerry Goldsmith's "Chinatown" and Miklos Rozsa's "Double Indemnity" - it was Goldsmith's score that held...
In this article: John Williams, Gustavo Dudamel, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Vertigo, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Times
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SFGate: Entertainment | October 18, 2009
CD: 'In Harm's Way' soundtrack
Jerry Goldsmith was a master of almost every Hollywood genre. Nominated for 18 Oscars (he won for "The Omen"), he scored "Alien," "Chinatown" and five "Star Trek" features. One of his standout genres was war ("Patton," the "Rambo" pictures).
In this article: In Harm's Way, Otto Preminger, Pearl Harbor attack, Oscars, San Francisco Chronicle, Saul Bass, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and Star Trek
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L.A. Times - Entertainment News | September 28, 2009
'Star Trek' and its designs on the future
...movie began, the biggest round of applause wasn't for the stars, or even the art director, for that matter. It was for composer Jerry Goldsmith's dead-on score, which opens with the French-horn driven Klingon's theme. Reminiscent of a...
In this article: Star Trek, William Shatner, Gene Roddenberry, Persis Khambatta, and Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
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Description from Wikipedia:
Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning one, for The Omen), and also won four Emmy Awards. He worked in a wide variety of film and television genres, but is most prominently associated with action, suspense, and sci-fi/horror films.
- Name At Birth:
- Jerrald King Goldsmith
- Birth Date:
- February 10, 1929
- Birthplace:
- Los Angeles, California
- Death Date:
- July 21, 2004
- Place of Death:
- Beverly Hills, California
- Spouse:
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- Sharon Hennagin (1950-1970)
- Carol Heather (1972-2004)
- Years Active:
- 1951 - 2004
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