Gerald Fried
Gerald Fried (born February 13, 1928 in New York City ) is an American composer and musician .
Life
Gerald Fried learned oboe in his childhood and studied music at the Juilliard School . He was subsequently inducted into the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the New York Little Orchestra as the first oboist . For his childhood friend and schoolmate Stanley Kubrick , he then composed music for his first four feature films, Fear and Desire , The Tiger of New York , The Bill Didn't Work Out and Paths to Fame . From 1956 he was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and from 1960 also a freelance film composer, having composed music for the Revue Studios up to then .
After Fried mainly composed for television series such as Gilligans Insel , Solo for ONCEL and Raumschiff Enterprise in the 1960s , he received his most important award for film music to date for his music on the documentary The Pairings of Animals with an Oscar nomination for best film music. In parallel to his film work, he also taught film composition at UCLA .
Filmography (selection)
Movies
- 1951: Day of the Fight
- 1953: Fear and Desire
- 1955: The Tiger of New York (Killer's Kiss)
- 1956: It didn't work out (The Killing)
- 1957: Curse of Violence (Trooper Hook)
- 1957: Paths of Glory (Paths of Glory)
- 1958: Draculas Blutnacht (The Return of Dracula)
- 1958: I Bury the Living
- 1965: One of Our Spies Is Missing
- 1967: The Karate Killer (The Karate Killers)
- 1968: The Killing of Sister George
- 1969: A widow quietly murders (Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?)
- 1970: The Grissom Gang
- 1970: Too Late the Hero
- 1974: The Mating of Animals (Birds Do It, Bees Do It)
- 1975: I Will Fight No More Forever (I Will Fight No More Forever)
- 1976: Survival (Supervivientes de los Andes)
- 1979: Disaster on the Coastliner
- 1979: Only love breaks the silence (Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love)
- 1982: Murder Is Easy
- 1983: A Killer in the Family
- 1984: The Mystic Warrior
- 1988: The Gift of Freedom (Roots: The Gift)
- 1988: Mother can't turn (Drop-Out Mother)
TV Shows
- 1965–1967: Gilligan 's Island (39 episodes)
- 1965–1967: Solo for ONCEL (The Man from UNCLE) (45 episodes)
- 1966-1969: Cobra, Take Over (Mission: Impossible) (6 episodes)
- 1966–1967: Spaceship Enterprise (Star Trek) (4 episodes)
- 1967: Whenever He Took Pills (Mr. Terrific) (17 episodes)
- 1977: Roots
- 1978–1978: Emergency Call California (Emergency!) (2 episodes)
- 1979: Roots : The Next Generations
- 1980–1982: Flamingo Road (39 episodes)
Awards (selection)
- 1976 : Nomination for the best film music with The Pairings of the Animals
Web links
- Gerald Fried in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fried, Gerald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film composer and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York, United States |