Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith started in radio, progressed to scoring TV shows (notably "Gunsmoke" and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E") and finally became arguably the most prolific quality film composer of all time. Despite a rigorous eclecticism established early in his career, ranging from the atonal ("Freud" 1962) to occasional jazz ("Our Man Flint" 1965), his style is immediately recognizable for its tight, relatively lean, percussive-rhythmic sound, chock-full of inventive energy and succulent melody, beautifully orchestrated. Goldsmith first worked with director Franklin J Schaffner
