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'Star Trek' composer dead

July 23, 2004 19:49 IST
By rediff.com Entertainment Bureau

Hollywood composer Jerry Goldsmith is dead. He was 75.

Goldsmith was suffering from cancer. The musician breathed his last on Wednesday night in his Beverly Hills, California, home.

Trained in classical music, Goldsmith scored memorable music for films like Freud, A Patch of Blue, The Sand Pebbles, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Boys from Brazil, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, LA Confidential and Mulan.

In a career spanning almost 50 years, he was nominated for 18

Oscars. But he won it only once for The Omen in 1976.

rediff.com Entertainment Bureau

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