Gerald Fried
Born: 1928-02-13
Died: 2023-02-17
Known For: Sound
Biography
Gerald Fried (February 13, 1928 – February 17, 2023) was an American composer, conductor, and oboist known for his film and television scores. He composed music for well-known television series of the 1960s and 1970s, including Mission: Impossible, Gilligan's Island, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Shotgun Slade, Roots, and Star Trek. Early in his career, he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick, scoring several of his earliest films. Fried was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning once in 1977 for Roots, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the documentary Birds Do It, Bees Do It (1974).
Filmography
2020
- Unbelievable!!!!! ... (Original Music Composer)
1988
- Roots: The Gift ... (Original Music Composer)
- Drop-Out Mother ... (Music)
1985
- Embassy ... (Music)
1984
- The Mystic Warrior ... (Music)
- Australia's Animal Mysteries ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Killer in the Family ... (Original Music Composer)
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers ... (Music)
1982
- American Playhouse ... (Original Music Composer)
- Murder Is Easy ... (Original Music Composer)
1981
- Dynasty ... (Music)
- The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- Condominium ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd ... (Music)
- Gauguin the Savage ... (Original Music Composer)
- Flamingo Road ... (Music)
- The Wild and the Free ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Silent Lovers ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- Roots: The Next Generations ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Rebels ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Seekers ... (Original Music Composer)
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Bell Jar ... (Original Music Composer)
- Disaster on the Coastliner ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Castaways on Gilligan's Island ... (Original Music Composer)
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ... (Original Music Composer)
- Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- The Immigrants ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cruise Into Terror ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rescue from Gilligan's Island ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Immigrants ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Beasts Are on the Streets ... (Original Music Composer)
- Maneaters Are Loose! ... (Original Music Composer)
1977
- Roots ... (Original Music Composer)
- Testimony of Two Men ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sex and the Married Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Spell ... (Original Music Composer)
1976
- Vigilante Force ... (Original Music Composer)
- Survive! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident ... (Original Music Composer)
1975
- I Will Fight No More Forever ... (Original Music Composer)
1974
- Birds Do It, Bees Do It ... (Music)
1973
- The Baby ... (Original Music Composer)
1971
- The Grissom Gang ... (Original Music Composer)
1970
- Too Late the Hero ... (Original Music Composer)
1969
- What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Image of the City ... (Music)
1968
- The Killing of Sister George ... (Original Music Composer)
- Danger Has Two Faces ... (Original Music Composer)
1967
- The Karate Killers ... (Original Music Composer)
1966
- Star Trek ... (Music)
- Mission: Impossible ... (Conductor)
- One Spy Too Many ... (Original Music Composer)
- One of Our Spies Is Missing ... (Original Music Composer)
- Deathwatch ... (Music)
1964
- One Potato, Two Potato ... (Original Music Composer)
1962
- The Cabinet of Caligari ... (Original Music Composer)
1961
- The Second Time Around ... (Original Music Composer)
- Twenty Plus Two ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Cold Wind in August ... (Original Music Composer)
1959
- Cast a Long Shadow ... (Original Music Composer)
- High School Big Shot ... (Original Music Composer)
1958
- Machine-Gun Kelly ... (Original Music Composer)
- Terror in a Texas Town ... (Original Music Composer)
- Curse of the Faceless Man ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Bury the Living ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Return of Dracula ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cry Baby Killer ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lost Missile ... (Original Music Composer)
- Timbuktu ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Flame Barrier ... (Original Music Composer)
1957
- Paths of Glory ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dino ... (Conductor)
- The Vampire ... (Conductor)
- Trooper Hook ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bayou ... (Original Music Composer)
1956
- The Killing ... (Original Music Composer)
1955
- Killer's Kiss ... (Conductor)
1953
- Fear and Desire ... (Original Music Composer)
1951
- Stasera sciopero ... (Music)
- Day of the Fight ... (Music)