Cast & creator
Jerry Goldsmith
Best known for Star Trek: Voyager, The Waltons, The Waltons
Jerry Goldsmith was an American music composer and conductor for film and television productions, best known for his scores of movies like "Planet of the Apes", "Papillon", "Alien", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", and also three "Rambo" films and five "Star Trek" films. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (he won only one, in 1976, for the feature film "The Omen").
Also known as: Jerrald King Goldsmith, Jerrald K. Goldsmith, Jerrald Goldsmith, Michael Hennagin, Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith
270
film credits
12
television credits
17
1952–2026 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (282)
Showing 282 of 282 credits
Star Trek: Voyager
Main Title Theme Composer
1995
The Waltons
Music
1972The Waltons
Main Title Theme Composer
1972
Alien
Original Music Composer
1979
Star Trek: Picard
Music
2020
The Mummy
Original Music Composer
1999The Mummy
Conductor
1999
Amazing Stories
Music
1985
The Oscars
Self
1953
Basic Instinct
Original Music Composer
1992
First Blood
Original Music Composer
1982
Mulan
Original Music Composer
1998
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Original Music Composer
1985
Total Recall
Original Music Composer
1990Total Recall
Music Producer
1990Total Recall
Orchestrator
1990Total Recall
Conductor
1990
Gremlins
Pay-Phone Patron (uncredited)
1984Gremlins
Original Music Composer
1984
Planet of the Apes
Original Music Composer
1968Planet of the Apes
Compositor
1968
The Loner
Original Music Composer
1965
The Secret of NIMH
Original Music Composer
1982The Secret of NIMH
Songs
1982
The Sum of All Fears
Original Music Composer
2002The Sum of All Fears
Conductor
2002
L.A. Confidential
Original Music Composer
1997L.A. Confidential
Conductor
1997
Hollow Man
Original Music Composer
2000Hollow Man
Conductor
2000
Chain Reaction
Original Music Composer
1996Chain Reaction
Conductor
1996
Dennis the Menace
Original Music Composer
1993
Mulan
Theme Song Performance
2020
Papillon
Original Music Composer
1973
Air Force One
Original Music Composer
1997Air Force One
Conductor
1997
The 13th Warrior
Original Music Composer
1999
Rambo III
Original Music Composer
1988
The Omen
Original Music Composer
1976
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Yogurt Customer
1990Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Original Music Composer
1990
The 'Burbs
Original Music Composer
1989
Chinatown
Original Music Composer
1974Chinatown
Conductor
1974
Deep Rising
Original Music Composer
1998Deep Rising
Conductor
1998
Small Soldiers
Original Music Composer
1998
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Original Music Composer
1979
U.S. Marshals
Original Music Composer
1998U.S. Marshals
Conductor
1998
Star Trek: First Contact
Original Music Composer
1996
Medical Story
Music
1975
Legend
Original Music Composer
1985
The Last Castle
Original Music Composer
2001
The Haunting
Original Music Composer
1999The Haunting
Conductor
1999
Poltergeist
Original Music Composer
1982
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Original Music Composer
1971
Star Trek: Nemesis
Original Music Composer
2002
Along Came a Spider
Original Music Composer
2001Along Came a Spider
Conductor
2001
Executive Decision
Original Music Composer
1996
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Original Music Composer
2003
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Original Music Composer
1983
Damien - Omen II
Original Music Composer
1978
Patton
Original Music Composer
1970Patton
Conductor
1970
Hawkins
Conductor
1973Hawkins
Original Music Composer
1973
Sleeping with the Enemy
Original Music Composer
1991Sleeping with the Enemy
Conductor
1991
First Knight
Original Music Composer
1995
The River Wild
Original Music Composer
1994
Masada
Original Music Composer
1981
Star Trek: Insurrection
Original Music Composer
1998
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Original Music Composer
1970Tora! Tora! Tora!
Conductor
1970Tora! Tora! Tora!
Music Arranger
1970Tora! Tora! Tora!
Orchestrator
1970
Supergirl
Original Music Composer
1984
The Edge
Original Music Composer
1997
Logan's Run
Original Music Composer
1976
Anna and the King
Music
1972
Forever Young
Original Music Composer
1992
The Ghost and the Darkness
Original Music Composer
1996
Bad Girls
Original Music Composer
1994
King Solomon's Mines
Original Music Composer
1985
The Final Conflict
Original Music Composer
1981
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Original Music Composer
1989
Capricorn One
Original Music Composer
1977
Congo
Original Music Composer
1995Congo
Conductor
1995
Psycho II
Original Music Composer
1983
Innerspace
Original Music Composer
1987
Warlock
Original Music Composer
1989
Outland
Original Music Composer
1981
The Cassandra Crossing
Original Music Composer
1976
The Shadow
Original Music Composer
1994
The Vanishing
Conductor
1993The Vanishing
Original Music Composer
1993
100 Rifles
Original Music Composer
1969
Seconds
Original Music Composer
1966
Malice
Original Music Composer
1993
City Hall
Original Music Composer
1996
The First Great Train Robbery
Original Music Composer
1978
Not Without My Daughter
Original Music Composer
1991
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Original Music Composer
1986
Hoosiers
Original Music Composer
1986
Powder
Original Music Composer
1995
The Boys from Brazil
Original Music Composer
1978The Boys from Brazil
Conductor
1978
In Harm's Way
Piano Player (uncredited)
1965In Harm's Way
Original Music Composer
1965
Rio Lobo
Original Music Composer
1970Rio Lobo
Conductor
1970
Leviathan
Original Music Composer
1989Leviathan
Conductor
1989
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Original Music Composer
1970
The Russia House
Original Music Composer
1990
Von Ryan's Express
Original Music Composer
1965Von Ryan's Express
Conductor
1965
Under Fire
Original Music Composer
1983
Explorers
Original Music Composer
1985
Love Field
Original Music Composer
1992
Bandolero!
Original Music Composer
1968
Rudy
Original Music Composer
1993
Medicine Man
Original Music Composer
1992Medicine Man
Conductor
1992
Hour of the Gun
Original Music Composer
1967
Lonely are the Brave
Original Music Composer
1962Lonely are the Brave
Orchestrator
1962
The Lonely Guy
Original Music Composer
1984
MacArthur
Conductor
1977MacArthur
Original Music Composer
1977
Seven Days in May
Original Music Composer
1964Seven Days in May
Conductor
1964
Damnation Alley
Original Music Composer
1977
Breakheart Pass
Original Music Composer
1975
The Sand Pebbles
Original Music Composer
1966
The Wind and the Lion
Original Music Composer
1975
A Patch of Blue
Original Music Composer
1965
Six Degrees of Separation
Original Music Composer
1993
Extreme Prejudice
Original Music Composer
1987Extreme Prejudice
Conductor
1987
Criminal Law
Original Music Composer
1989
Coma
Original Music Composer
1978
The Satan Bug
Original Music Composer
1965
Lilies of the Field
Original Music Composer
1963
Monty and the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Fierce Creatures
Original Music Composer
1997Fierce Creatures
Conductor
1997
Don't Bother to Knock
Music Consultant
1952
Night Crossing
Original Music Composer
1982
I.Q.
Original Music Composer
1994
The Trouble with Angels
Original Music Composer
1966
A Gathering of Eagles
Original Music Composer
1963
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Original Music Composer
1973
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Original Music Composer
1972
The Detective
Original Music Composer
1968
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Original Music Composer
1977
Ransom
Original Music Composer
1974
Flaming Star
Music
1960
Our Man Flint
Original Music Composer
1966
Stagecoach
Original Music Composer
1966
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Original Music Composer
1971
Breakout
Original Music Composer
1975
Mr. Baseball
Original Music Composer
1992
The Blue Max
Original Music Composer
1966
The Swarm
Original Music Composer
1978
Fate Is the Hunter
Original Music Composer
1964
The List of Adrian Messenger
Original Music Composer
1963
Take a Hard Ride
Original Music Composer
1975
Magic
Original Music Composer
1978
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Original Music Composer
1985
Rent-a-Cop
Original Music Composer
1987
In Like Flint
Original Music Composer
1967
Take Her, She's Mine
Original Music Composer
1963
Matinee
Original Music Composer
1993
The Prize
Original Music Composer
1963
Face of a Fugitive
Original Music Composer
1959
Runaway
Original Music Composer
1984
Freud: The Secret Passion
Original Music Composer
1962
The Other
Original Music Composer
1972The Other
Conductor
1972
The Last Hard Men
Original Music Composer
1976
The Spiral Road
Original Music Composer
1962
The Flim-Flam Man
Original Music Composer
1967
Mom and Dad Save the World
Original Music Composer
1992
The Don Is Dead
Original Music Composer
1973
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Original Music Composer
1975
Warning Shot
Original Music Composer
1967
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Self
2003The Beast Within: Making Alien
Music
2003
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Original Music Composer
2019
Morituri
Original Music Composer
1965
The Mephisto Waltz
Original Music Composer
1971
One Little Indian
Original Music Composer
1973
S*P*Y*S
Original Music Composer
1974S*P*Y*S
Conductor
1974
Shamus
Original Music Composer
1973
The Challenge
Original Music Composer
1982
The Chairman
Original Music Composer
1969
Islands in the Stream
Original Music Composer
1977
Casino Royale
Original Music Composer
1954
Rio Conchos
Original Music Composer
1964Rio Conchos
Conductor
1964
Wild Rovers
Original Music Composer
1971
Medical Story
Original Music Composer
1975
The Salamander
Original Music Composer
1981
Ninja Terminator
Music
1986
Caboblanco
Original Music Composer
1980
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Original Music Composer
1970
To Trap a Spy
Original Music Composer
1965
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Theme Song Performance
1987
Raggedy Man
Original Music Composer
1981
The Spy in the Green Hat
Music
1967
Contract on Cherry Street
Original Music Composer
1977
Inchon
Original Music Composer
1981
Link
Original Music Composer
1986Link
Conductor
1986
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Original Music Composer
1971The Hollywood Soundtrack Story
Self
1995
The Man Who Saved the World
Music
1982
A Girl Named Sooner
Original Music Composer
1975
Cinderella Revolution
Music
1983
Lionheart
Original Music Composer
1987
From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures
Music
2014All About Alfred
Self
Days of Wine and Roses
Original Music Composer
1958
Angie
Original Music Composer
1994
The Illustrated Man
Original Music Composer
1969
Crawlspace
Original Music Composer
1972
A Step Out of Line
Original Music Composer
1971
The Last Run
Original Music Composer
1971
Justine
Original Music Composer
1969
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Original Music Composer
1974
Indict and Convict
Original Music Composer
1974
Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
(archive footage)
2014Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Original Music Composer
2014
Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'
Self
2001
The Alien Legacy
Music
1999
Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later
Original Music Composer
2002
The Red Pony
Original Music Composer
1973
Winter Kill
Original Music Composer
1974
Journey to the Day
Music
1960
Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
1995
The Traveling Executioner
Conductor
1970The Traveling Executioner
Original Music Composer
1970
Crosscurrent
Original Music Composer
1971
Bloodthirsty Hawk
Music
1977
Babe
Original Music Composer
1977Babe
Conductor
1977Babe
Orchestrator
1977
City of Fear
Original Music Composer
1959
666: The Omen Revealed
2000The Going Up of David Lev
Original Music Composer
1973
Prudence and the Chief
Conductor
1970Prudence and the Chief
Original Music Composer
1970
Black Patch
Original Music Composer
1957
The Grim Reaper
Original Music Composer
1961
The Stripper
Original Music Composer
1963
Studs Lonigan
Original Music Composer
1960
The Man
Original Music Composer
1972
Big John Morrison
Original Music Composer
1973
North and the Music of the South
Self (archive footage)
2006
The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint
Music
1965
Shock Treatment
Original Music Composer
1964
Rambo: The Rescue
Music
1986
King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: "It was beauty killed the beast."
Self
1992
Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner
Self
1997
Sebastian
Original Music Composer
1968
Lights Out
Original Music Composer
1972Man on the Beach
Original Music Composer
1961
Nick Quarry
Original Music Composer
1968
The Crimebusters
Original Music Composer
1961
Pursuit
Original Music Composer
1972
Players
Original Music Composer
1979
Arttack
Songs
2026
High Velocity
Original Music Composer
1976
Imagining 'Total Recall'
Self
2001
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
Himself
2023