Sound

Jerry Fielding

Born June 17, 1922 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Died February 17, 1980 · aged 57

A three-time Oscar nominee, Jerry Fielding was among the boldest and most experimental of all Hollywood film composers. His music typically utilized advanced compositional procedures, producing dense, often richly dissonant orchestral textures, sometimes flavored with jazz. Fielding's film music career was marked by enduring and rewarding collaborations with Sam Peckinpah, Michael Winner and Clint…

Known For

Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz · 1979

Escape from Alcatraz

MovieDramaThriller

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

The Mechanic

The Mechanic · 1972

MovieActionCrime

Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales · 1976

The Outlaw Josey Wales

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

The Enforcer

The Enforcer · 1976

MovieCrimeAction

Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.

Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs · 1971

MovieThrillerDrama

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch · 1969

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet · 1977

MovieDramaAction

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking official.

Chato's Land

Chato's Land · 1972

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

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Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz · 1979

Escape from Alcatraz

MovieDramaThriller

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

Original Music Composer

The Mechanic

The Mechanic · 1972

MovieActionCrime

Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.

Original Music Composer

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales · 1976

The Outlaw Josey Wales

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

Original Music Composer

The Enforcer

The Enforcer · 1976

MovieCrimeAction

Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.

Original Music Composer

Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs · 1971

MovieThrillerDrama

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.

Original Music Composer

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch · 1969

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Original Music Composer

The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet · 1977

MovieDramaAction

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking official.

Original Music Composer

Chato's Land

Chato's Land · 1972

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

Original Music Composer

Demon Seed

Demon Seed · 1977

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.

Original Music Composer

The Bad News Bears

The Bad News Bears · 1976

The Bad News Bears

MovieFamilyComedy

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

Original Music Composer

The Gambler

The Gambler · 1974

MovieDramaCrime

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

Original Music Composer

Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun · 1971

Johnny Got His Gun

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

Original Music Composer

Scorpio

Scorpio · 1973

MovieActionThriller

Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.

Original Music Composer

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia · 1974

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

MovieActionCrime

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Original Music Composer

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure · 1979

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

MovieActionAdventure

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.

Original Music Composer

The Killer Elite

The Killer Elite · 1975

The Killer Elite

MovieCrimeAction

Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.

Original Music Composer

Lawman

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.

Original Music Composer

The Outfit

The Outfit · 1973

MovieCrimeDrama

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

Original Music Composer

Advise & Consent

Advise & Consent · 1962

Advise & Consent

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.

Original Music Composer

Gray Lady Down

Gray Lady Down · 1978

MovieThrillerDrama

The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.

Original Music Composer

The Nightcomers

The Nightcomers · 1972

The Nightcomers

MovieDramaHorror

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruption of the children in their care.

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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep · 1978

MovieCrimeMystery

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

Original Music Composer

Junior Bonner

Junior Bonner · 1972

MovieWesternDrama

With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memories are shattered when he finds his family torn apart by his greedy brother and hard-drinking father.

Original Music Composer

Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough · 1977

MovieComedyDrama

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

Original Music Composer

He & She

He & She · 1967

He & She is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network as part of its 1967-1968 lineup, originally sponsored by General Foods and Lever Brothers. He & She is widely considered to be ahead of its time by broadcast historians. Its sophisticated approach to comedy was viewed as opening doors to the groundbreaking MTM family of sitcoms of the 1970s, beginning with The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. The character of Oscar was openly the pattern for the Ted Baxter character, for which creator Leonard Stern granted permission. CBS aired reruns of He & She in prime time from June 1970 to September 1970.

Original Music Composer

Shane

Shane works for the Starett family, a young widow, her son, and her aging father-in-law, protecting them against the anti-sodbuster rancher Ryker and other perils plaguing the Old West.

Music

Hawkins

Hawkins · 1973

The cases of slow-talking but high-powered West Virginia attorney Billy Jim Hawkins.

Original Music Composer

Broadside

Broadside · 1964

Lt. Anne Morgan and her fellow Waves are posted to the backwater station on Ranakai, much to the displeasure of Commander Adrian. So his South Seas idyll, including gourmet cook, isn't disrupted has Adrian scheming to transfer the women.

Original Music Composer

The Snoop Sisters

The Snoop Sisters · 1973

The Snoop Sisters

SeriesMysteryComedy

A spinster and her widowed sister, who are also mystery writers, try to solve mysterious murders.

Original Music Composer

Mr. Horn

Mr. Horn · 1979

Western saga based on the legend of frontier folk hero Tom Horn, including his role in the trackdown of Geronimo in the 1880s with his mentor and pal, Al Sieber, the fabled Indian scout, his later days as a Pinkerton detective, and the way he was used by both sides in turn-of-the-century cattle wars, leading to his tragic death.

Original Music Composer

Faraday and Company

Faraday and Company · 1973

Faraday and Company

SeriesDramaCrime

Private investigator Frank Faraday, falsely accused of murdering his partner, escapes from a South American prison after 28 years' confinement. Returning to a Los Angeles greatly changed during his absence, Frank discovers that he has an adult son named Steve, also a private investigator. Steve is the son of Frank's girlfriend, Lou Carson, who had taken over Frank's agency. Father and son now work together to solve mysteries, while Frank tries to adjust to contemporary life.

Original Music Composer