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Born February 10, 1929, Pasadena, California. Goldsmith scored films, he also conducted, arranged, etc. Goldsmith didn't not peak at some point decades ago and then continue on, his greatest scores as scattered about his 40+ year career. Some of his very best scores are for Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May (1964); James Coburn's tongue-in-cheek superspy, Our Man Flint (1966), the original and very powerful music for the awesome Planet of the Apes (1968); Patton (1970); Chinatown (1974) -- arguably his best work, for Polanski; the well remembered horror score for The Omen (1976); Alien (1979); the sweeping mix of romance and spying of The Russia House (1990); and his final total masterpiece for Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential (1997).
By the early 60s he was scoring feature films more regularly: John Huston's Freud (1962), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Lilies of the Field (1963), Huston's The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Fate Is the Hunter (1964), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964), Shock Treatment (1964), A Patch of Blue (1965), Von Ryan's Express (1965), In Harm's Way (1965), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Seconds (1966), The Blue Max (1966), Stagecoach (1966), The Trouble with Angels (1966), Hour of the Gun (1967), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), In Like Flint (1967), Warning Shot (1967), Bandolero! (1968), The Detective (1968), Hawks' Rio Lobo (1970), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Blake Edwards' Wild Rovers (1971), The Mephisto Waltz (1971), Papillon (1973), Shamus (1973), "Barnaby Jones" (1973) theme, Logan's Run (1976), MacArthur (1977), Aldrich's Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), The Boys from Brazil (1978), Coma (1978), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Outland (1981), The Secret of NIMH (1982), Poltergeist (1982), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Supergirl (1984), Gremlins (1984), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985), Hoosiers (1986), Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), The 'burbs (1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Matinee (1993), and The Mummy (1999). Goldsmith made three cameo/acting appearances in films: he was uncredited as a piano player in Preminger's In Harm's Way (1965); uncredited as a man in a telephone booth staring the camera in Gremlins (1984); and -- finally credited! -- as "Yogurt Customer" in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). According to the imdb, Goldsmith studied under Miklos Rozsa. Jerry Goldsmith received 17 Oscar nominations but won only once, for The Omen (1976) in 1977. On the Planet of the Apes DVD commentary track, he explains why he didn't score the final scene: "Charlton Heston was a bit over the top by himself, and didn't need any score to accompany him." Reportedly, Goldsmith wore an ape mask when conducting the score for Planet of the Apes (1968). From Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: "If you have been a regular moviegoer during the past 20 years, chances are that Goldsmith has composed the music for some of your favorite films. He began conducting and composing music for CBS radio and television, and made his first impact on moviegoers in 1962 with his subtle scores for Lonely Are the Brave and Freud. He has since worked virtually nonstop on pictures both big and small, and has experimented with many different musical stylings on such films as Lilies of the Field (1963), A Patch of Blue (1965), Our Man Flint (1966), Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970), Chinatown (1974), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Under Fire (1983), Gremlins (1984, the first of many films for director Joe Dante), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Hoosiers (1986), and The Russia House (1990). Goldsmith has been nominated 15 times for Academy Awards and took one home for his frightening score of The Omen (1976). TV buffs remember him for his trendy music for the popular TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." Recent credits include Forever Young (1992), Dennis the Menace, Matinee, Rudy and Malice (all 1993)." Goldsmith is buried at the beautiful Hillside Memorial Park, at 6001 Centinela Ave., Los Angeles, California. At imdb.
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Jerry Goldsmith 
His first work was for the TV series, Studio One (1948). A lot of his early work was for TV, and highlights included Perry Mason, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare, Wagon Train, Ben Casey, and Gunsmoke.
