'Star Trek' composer Jerry Goldsmith is dead!
Washington | July 23, 2004 3:16:12 PM IST
Legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith, who created memorable scores for super successful films like 'Star Trek' and 'Alien' died in his sleep at his Beverly Hills home on June 21 after a long battle with cancer.
Goldsmith, 75, had also composed popular scores for TV shows, ' The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' and ' The Waltons and Perry Mason'. His second wife, Carol Heather, five children, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild survive him.
According to E-Online, Goldsmith was nominated for 17 Academy Awards and had won an Oscar for his accompaniment to the 1976 film 'The Omen'. He had also earned five Emmy Awards and five Grammy nominations.
Goldsmith was working on the tunes of the film adaptation of Steve Martin's play 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile' and the true-life soccer story 'The Game of Their Lives' during his last days but he had reportedly not been able to complete either of the scores.
The California-born musician had penned tunes for 'Chinatown', 'Patton', 'Rambo: First Blood', 'Poltergeist', 'Gremlins', 'Total Recall', 'Basic Instinct' and many others.
"He was always an idol. He had this balance in his music that was always an inspiration to me, something to strive for," the report quoted Goldsmith's fellow composer, Danny Elfman, as saying.
Fans mourned the death of the genius composer on a web site dedicated to his music, JerryGoldsmithOnline.com.
"Goldsmith was one of the last highly skilled and boldly imaginative film composers in a world a world of film music that is becoming increasingly bland, mediocre and safe. What saddens me most is that with his passing, there are very few of his caliber that remain," wrote one web poster. (ANI)
