Ernest Gold
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Ernst Sigmund Goldner (July 13, 1921 – March 17, 1999), known professionally as Ernest Gold, was an Austrian-born American composer. He is most noted for his work on the film Exodus produced in 1960.
Career NBC Orchestra performed Gold's first symphony in 1939, only a year after he moved to the United States. In 1941, he composed a symphony that was later played at Carnegie Hall in 1945. Gold moved to Hollywood in the same year to work with Columbia Pictures, his first significant role being the score for the melodrama Girl of the Limberlost (1945). After this opportunity, Gold wrote scores for other minor films. For the next ten years, he continued to work on B movies, mainly orchestrating and arranging music for western movies and melodramas.
He was asked by Stanley Kramer to orchestrate Not as a Stranger (1955). The music for the film was written by George Antheil. This production opened the door for Gold to work with other scores written by Antheil and to orchestrate more of Kramer's films. Gold worked on almost every film Kramer made, including A Child Is Waiting and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Gold produced his first original film score in 1958 for Too Much, Too Soon. His big break came in 1959, when he was asked to score On the Beach (1959 film) after Antheil became ill and he recommended Gold for the job.
Gold is most widely recognized for his work on Exodus (1960). He was contracted by Otto Preminger and, atypically, was able to watch the filming of the movie. Gold spent time in Israel to write the score.
In 1968, Gold wrote a Broadway musical called I'm Solomon. He also wrote music for television including Fun with Dick and Jane. In his later life, Gold was the musical director of the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra. He also founded the Los Angeles Senior Citizens Orchestra.
His concert works include a piano concerto, a string quartet, and a piano sonata. Ernest Gold's "Fight for Survival" from Exodus was sampled by Moby in his song Porcelain.
Gold's contributions were recognized with Academy Award nominations and Golden Globe nominations. He won a Golden Globe in 1960 for Best Motion Picture Score for 1959's On the Beach. This film was also nominated for a Music Academy Award that same year. In 1960, Gold's Exodus was nominated for a Golden Globe under the Best Original Score category. The film won an Academy Award for Best Music and a Grammy for Best Soundtrack Album. For his contributions, Gold had his name engraved in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the first composer to receive this honor.
Fotos
Películas (56)
The Victory of Charity
2017
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
2011 · In Memory Of
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
1991 · Self
Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
1986 · Original Music Composer
Safari 3000
1982 · Original Music Composer
Tom Horn
1980 · Original Music Composer
Letters from Frank
1979 · Original Music Composer
The Runner Stumbles
1979 · Original Music Composer
Marciano
1979 · Music
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
1979 · Original Music Composer
Fun with Dick and Jane
1977 · Original Music Composer
Cross of Iron
1977 · Original Music Composer, Music
The Wild McCullochs
1975 · Original Music Composer
Betrayal
1974 · Original Music Composer
The Small Miracle
1973 · Original Music Composer
Footsteps
1972 · Original Music Composer
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971 · Music
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970 · Original Music Composer
Ship of Fools
1965 · Original Music Composer, Songs
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Original Music Composer, Songs
A Child Is Waiting
1963 · Original Music Composer
Pressure Point
1962 · Original Music Composer
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Original Music Composer
The Last Sunset
1961 · Original Music Composer
A Fever in the Blood
1961 · Original Music Composer
Exodus
1960 · Original Music Composer
Inherit the Wind
1960 · Original Music Composer
On the Beach
1959 · Original Music Composer
The Young Philadelphians
1959 · Original Music Composer
The Screaming Skull
1958 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Tarzan's Fight for Life
1958 · Original Music Composer
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Original Music Composer
Wink of an Eye
1958 · Music
Too Much, Too Soon
1958 · Music
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Conductor
Affair in Havana
1957 · Original Music Composer
The Young Don't Cry
1957 · Conductor
Running Target
1956 · Original Music Composer
Edge of Hell
1956 · Original Music Composer
The Naked Street
1955 · Music
The Other Woman
1954 · Original Music Composer
Karamoja
1954 · Music
Jennifer
1953 · Original Music Composer
The Assignation
1953 · Music
Unknown World
1951 · Original Music Composer
Insurance Investigator
1951 · Original Music Composer
Knock on Any Door
1949 · Orchestrator
Under California Stars
1948 · Original Music Composer
Madonna of the Desert
1948 · Music
The Gay Ranchero
1948 · Original Music Composer
Fragment of Seeking
1947 · Music
Exposed
1947 · Original Music Composer
Philo Vance's Secret Mission
1947 · Original Music Composer
Bells of San Angelo
1947 · Original Music Composer
Lighthouse
1947 · Music
Smooth as Silk
1946 · Music
