American film composer (1929–2004)

Claude says:Jerry Goldsmith's orchestral work—those sweeping, brass-forward TV and film themes from the '60s onward—barely registers in your library, but when it does land, it's the stuff that sticks: the underdog surge of Rudy, the eerie sci-fi shimmer of The Twilight Zone. A composer who understood that a five-minute theme could carry an entire world.