Jerrald King Goldsmith was an American composer. He is best known for his work in film and television scoring. In the initial years of his career, he joined CBS as a clerk and gradually became a radio and TV composer of theme music and background score. For the first time, he scored music for the film Black Patch and later went on composing a minimum of 4 films per year. He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for Logan`s Run, Patton (1970), Chinatown (1974), Poltergeist (1982), Gremlins (1984), Hoosiers (1986), Innerspace (1987), Air Force One (1997), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Mulan (1998), The Mummy (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001) and Total Recall (2012). Goldsmith was 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 composed for Paramount Pictures from 1976 through 2011.