Ernest Gold

Age: 77 | From: Vienna, Austria

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Person Details

Birthday: 1921-07-13 04:40:19

Death: 1999-03-17 04:40:19

Aliases: Ernst Gold

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Vienna, Austria

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Movie Involvements: 52

TV Involvements: 2

Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Most Famous Work

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2017	N/A	The Victory of Charity 2017-01-24 Movie
1953	Self	The Oscars 1953-03-18 TV Show
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Crew

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2011	In Memory Of	Passion & Poetry: Sam's War 2011-06-06 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1988	Music	Lincoln 1988-03-27 TV Show
1986	Original Music Composer	Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story 1986-11-15 Movie
1982	Original Music Composer	Safari 3000 1982-05-01 Movie
1980	Original Music Composer	Tom Horn 1980-03-28 Movie
1979	Original Music Composer	Letters from Frank 1979-11-22 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Runner Stumbles 1979-11-16 Movie
	Music	Marciano 1979-10-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff 1979-04-13 Movie
1977	Original Music Composer	Fun with Dick and Jane 1977-03-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Cross of Iron 1977-01-29 Movie
	Music	Cross of Iron 1977-01-29 Movie
1975	Original Music Composer	The Wild McCullochs 1975-05-21 Movie
1974	Original Music Composer	Betrayal 1974-12-03 Movie
1972	Original Music Composer	Footsteps 1972-10-03 Movie
1969	Original Music Composer	The Secret of Santa Vittoria 1969-01-01 Movie
1965	Music	Ship of Fools 1965-07-29 Movie
1963	Original Music Composer	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963-11-07 Movie
	Songs	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963-11-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Child Is Waiting 1963-02-13 Movie
1962	Music	Pressure Point 1962-10-10 Movie
1961	Original Music Composer	Judgment at Nuremberg 1961-12-18 Movie
	Music	The Last Sunset 1961-06-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Fever in the Blood 1961-01-28 Movie
1960	Original Music Composer	Exodus 1960-12-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Inherit the Wind 1960-07-07 Movie
1959	Music	On the Beach 1959-12-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Young Philadelphians 1959-05-21 Movie
1958	Original Music Composer	Tarzan's Fight for Life 1958-08-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Defiant Ones 1958-08-14 Movie
	Music	Wink of an Eye 1958-06-01 Movie
	Music	Too Much, Too Soon 1958-04-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Screaming Skull 1958-01-01 Movie
	Conductor	The Screaming Skull 1958-01-01 Movie
1957	Conductor	Witness for the Prosecution 1957-12-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Affair in Havana 1957-10-01 Movie
	Conductor	The Young Don't Cry 1957-07-26 Movie
1956	Original Music Composer	Running Target 1956-11-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Edge of Hell 1956-07-01 Movie
1955	Music	The Naked Street 1955-08-01 Movie
	Music	Karamoja 1955-01-10 Movie
1954	Original Music Composer	The Other Woman 1954-12-02 Movie
1953	Original Music Composer	Jennifer 1953-10-25 Movie
	Music	The Assignation 1953-06-15 Movie
1951	Original Music Composer	Unknown World 1951-10-26 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Insurance Investigator 1951-03-23 Movie
1949	Orchestrator	Knock on Any Door 1949-01-01 Movie
1948	Original Music Composer	Under California Stars 1948-04-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Gay Ranchero 1948-01-14 Movie
1947	Original Music Composer	Exposed 1947-09-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Philo Vance's Secret Mission 1947-08-30 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Bells of San Angelo 1947-04-15 Movie
1946	Music	Fragment of Seeking 1946-08-01 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv