Sound

Joel Goldsmith

Born November 19, 1957 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died April 29, 2012 · aged 54

Joel King Goldsmith (November 19, 1957 – April 29, 2012) was an American composer. He is best known as the main composer for the television series Stargate SG-1. He was the son of renowned film composer Jerry Goldsmith.

Known For

Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact · 1996

Star Trek: First Contact

MovieScience FictionAction

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion Picture · 1979

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

MovieScience FictionAdventure

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

Stargate: Continuum

Stargate: Continuum · 2008

Stargate: Continuum

MovieActionAdventure

Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Stargate: The Ark of Truth · 2008

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

MovieActionAdventure

SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.

Piranha

Piranha · 1978

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

The Man with Two Brains

The Man with Two Brains · 1983

The Man with Two Brains

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.

Watchers

Watchers · 1988

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that it's an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unbeknownst to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature that's not quite so friendly.

Kull the Conqueror

Kull the Conqueror · 1997

Kull the Conqueror

MovieFantasyAdventure

A barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle. In an effort to regain the throne, the former king's heirs resurrect Akivasha, a witch queen. However, Akivasha has plans of her own for the throne, and only Kull stands in the way.

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Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact · 1996

Star Trek: First Contact

MovieScience FictionAction

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

Additional Music

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion Picture · 1979

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

MovieScience FictionAdventure

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

Sound Effects

Stargate: Continuum

Stargate: Continuum · 2008

Stargate: Continuum

MovieActionAdventure

Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

Original Music Composer

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Stargate: The Ark of Truth · 2008

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

MovieActionAdventure

SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.

Original Music Composer

Piranha

Piranha · 1978

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Location Sound Mixer

The Man with Two Brains

The Man with Two Brains · 1983

The Man with Two Brains

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.

Original Music Composer

Watchers

Watchers · 1988

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that it's an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unbeknownst to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature that's not quite so friendly.

Original Music Composer

Kull the Conqueror

Kull the Conqueror · 1997

Kull the Conqueror

MovieFantasyAdventure

A barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle. In an effort to regain the throne, the former king's heirs resurrect Akivasha, a witch queen. However, Akivasha has plans of her own for the throne, and only Kull stands in the way.

Original Music Composer

Man's Best Friend

Man's Best Friend · 1993

Man's Best Friend

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A genetic research facility worker exposes animal abuses there to a local TV reporter, who frees and takes in a genetically altered dog from the lab, unaware that he has a violent streak.

Original Music Composer

Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree · 1993

A Los Angeles police detective tracks a fugitive who heads for the desert with a deputy sheriff as hostage.

Original Music Composer

Moon 44

Moon 44 · 1990

MovieScience Fiction

Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.

Original Music Composer

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence · 1992

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

MovieActionHorror

A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and returns from the dead...again...to do his bidding.

Original Music Composer

Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods · 2009

Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

MovieActionAdventure

An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.

Original Music Composer

Shadow of Doubt

Shadow of Doubt · 1998

Shadow of Doubt

MovieCrimeDrama

An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.

Original Music Composer

American Dragons

American Dragons · 1998

American Dragons

MovieActionCrime

Murders in Seoul, Korea and in America pair two cops from each of the countries together to solve the crimes. The investigation leads to a gang war between the Mafia and the Yakuza, but one that may not be of either of their making. A shadowy assassin is killing the leaders and an Italian assassin may have his own agenda.

Original Music Composer

Across the Tracks

Across the Tracks · 1991

Across the Tracks

When Billy returns from reform school he has to attend a different high school at the other side of town. He tries to start with a clean slate but his old rival doesn't make it easy on him and his buddy Louie tries to make him go astray again. His brother Joe, quite the opposite of Billy, is a good runner and determined to win a track scholarship. He suggests Billy to join his school's track team, which pits the two brothers against each other.

Original Music Composer

Hollywood Hot Tubs

Hollywood Hot Tubs · 1984

Hollywood Hot Tubs

All hilarity breaks loose in this rousing and raucous tale of Hollywood hi-jinks and chicanery as a teenage delinquent turns plumber... and turns up in Hollywood Hot Tubs. After changing the famous "Hollywood" sign to "Hollyweed," Shawn Wright is given a choice of jail or getting a job. He takes a job as a hot tub plumber, and thus begins his arduous adventure into the wild world of sensuous starlets and star-studded parties in bubbling Hollywood tubs.

Original Music Composer

The Rift

The Rift · 1990

MovieActionHorror

An experimental submarine with a very experienced crew, the "Siren II" is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...

Original Music Composer

Thank Heaven

Thank Heaven · 2001

MovieComedyTV Movie

The life of Jack Lander (Matt Keeslar) a television news producer, was a disaster ... until the day when a misdirected golf ball changed everything. During a round of golf with friends, Jack ball accidentally hits an old man and leaves him unconscious. Arnie (Gene Bicknell) and will call then wakes up with amnesia. Jack has to take responsibility for it. As the day progresses, Arnie performs small miracles wherever he go. But what is it about Arnie? How do you perform those miracles?

Original Music Composer

Laserblast

Laserblast · 1978

MovieScience FictionHorror

Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who had recently executed its previous owner.

Original Music Composer

Olivia

MovieCrimeHorror

Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia, a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike. Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by memories of her mother's brutal murder, Olivia hopes her lover will offer a chance at a new life. However, ghostly voices and brutal murders ignite a fiendish, twist-filled story of double identities, deception, and erotic terror.

Original Music Composer

Shiloh

MovieDramaFamily

An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it belongs to Judd Travers, a local hunter. After Shiloh is mistreated again, he runs away and returns to Marty. Knowing his father will once again make him bring Shiloh back to Judd, he makes a home for the dog in an old shed up the hill from the Prestons' house and hides him from his family. His secret is soon discovered when a stray attacks the dog one night and he must turn to his father for help.

Original Music Composer

Fatal Desire

Fatal Desire · 2006

MovieTV MovieThriller

A forty-something ex-policeman named Joe initiates an online relationship with twenty-something Tanya Sullivan. Conflicts arise after Tanya flies to Atlantic City to seduce Joe, and she reveals to him that she is married.

Original Music Composer

Doomsday Chronicles

Doomsday Chronicles · 1979

Doomsday Chronicles

MovieDocumentary

Plagued by wars, pollution and natural disasters, is man destined to self-destruction before the 20th century folds? Or can he escape the total annihilation the future may hold?

Original Music Composer

Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 · 1997

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.

Original Music Composer

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Atlantis · 2004

Stargate Atlantis

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.

Original Music Composer

The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits · 1995

The Outer Limits

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

Original Music Composer

Martial Law

Martial Law · 1998

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

Sammo Law spins, kicks, and chops his way through crime as a one-man police force in Los Angeles. He's a tough law enforcer who comes to the U.S. in search of a former friend and protegée — and gets drafted as part of the LAPD.

Original Music Composer

Witchblade

Witchblade · 2001

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

Sara "Pez" Pezzini searches for justice which brings her into contact with the Witchblade. An ancient, intelligent, living weapon so powerful it can battle Earth's darkest evil forces. Week in and week out, Pez employs her skills as a police detective to fight crime. Pez finds she must employ the Witchblade to combat a much greater and frighteningly organized conspiracy of evil that threatens the very soul of humanity.

Original Music Composer

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy · 2003

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Paris of Troy goes to Sparta on a diplomatic mission and falls in love with Helen, the wife of King Menelaus. When lovers flee to Troy, the bloody seeds of a long war, sown by King Agamemnon of Mycenae, finally sprout, so an old prophecy is fulfilled.

Original Music Composer

The Untouchables

The Untouchables · 1993

The Untouchables

SeriesCrimeDrama

The Untouchables is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons in syndication, from January 1993 to May 1994. The series portrayed work of the real life Untouchables federal investigative squad in Prohibition-era Chicago and its efforts against Al Capone's attempts to profit from the market in bootleg liquor. The series features Tom Amandes as Eliot Ness and William Forsythe as Al Capone, and was based on the 1959 series and 1987 film of the same name.

Original Music Composer

Hawkeye (The First Frontier)

Hawkeye (The First Frontier) · 1994

Hawkeye (The First Frontier)

Hawkeye is a television series, airing in syndication for one season during 1994-1995, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell. The series was filmed in North Vancouver and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Based on characters from the Leatherstocking Tales, a set of novels written by James Fenimore Cooper, the series takes place in 1755 Hudson Valley, New York during the French and Indian War. It follows the main character, Natty Bumppo, his Native American companion Chingachgook, trading post owner Elizabeth Shields and other people stationed at or living in the vicinity of Fort Bennington.

Original Music Composer