Jerrald "Jerry" King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor. Goldsmith is notable in Bond circles for composing the score to the 1954 Casino Royale, the first attempt to bring Ian Fleming's work to the screen.
He would go on to bigger and better things, being nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (winning in 1976 for The Omen). He wrote the score to five of the Star Trek films, three Rambo films, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Chinatown, Alien, Poltergeist, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, and The Mummy. While Casino Royale's music does not represent his best work, it is a notable early example of it, and has a double interest as a result.
Goldsmith also composed the fanfares accompanying the production logos used by multiple major film studios, and music for the Disney attraction Soarin'.
He collaborated with directors including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Leonard Nimoy, Joe Dante, Richard Donner, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J. Schaffner.
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