Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. He won four Emmy Awards, an Oscar for The Omen, and was nominated for 17 other Oscars. He worked in various film and television genres, but is prominently associated with action, suspense sci-fi, and horror films.
Goldsmith was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Tessa (née Rappaport), an artist, and Morris ...
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Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. He won four Emmy Awards, an Oscar for The Omen, and was nominated for 17 other Oscars. He worked in various film and television genres, but is prominently associated with action, suspense sci-fi, and horror films.
Goldsmith was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Tessa (née Rappaport), an artist, and Morris Goldsmith, a structural engineer. He learned to play the piano at age six. At fourteen, he studied piano, composition, theory and counterpoint with teachers Jakob Gimpel and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Goldsmith attended the University of Southern California, where he attended courses taught by veteran composer Miklós Rózsa. Goldsmith developed an interest in writing scores for movies after being inspired by Rózsa.
In 1950, Goldsmith found work at CBS as a clerk in the network's music department. He began writing scores for radio (including CBS...
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