Joel Goldsmith (1957 - 2012)

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The music world has lost another great television and movie composer. Joel Goldsmith, whose music appeared in more than 350 episodes of Stargate across three franchises, has died. He was 54.

No cause of death has been released, but the news was announced early Monday morning by Stargate news site GateWorld.

Goldsmith was the son of famed Star Trek composer Jerry Goldsmith, who himself died in 2004 at the age of 75. His first job came in 1978 for the pseudo-documentary "Auditions" in 1978 and later the Michael Rae B-movie sci-fi film "Laserblast."

His work became more mainstream in 1991 with the short-lived sci-fi television series "Super Force." He would make his own name for himself in 1993 when he signed on to compose music for the syndicated series "The Untouchables" that starred Tom Amandes and John Newton.

He joined "Stargate SG-1" on Showtime in 1997. Although he would do all the episodic music work for the series, the main title theme itself was composed by David Arnold, who had originally written the song for the 1994 film. Goldsmith, however, would write the main title theme song for spinoff "Stargate: Atlantis" in 2004.

Goldsmith would also work with his father on one Star Trek film, "Star Trek: First Contact" in 1996.

Goldsmith was nominated for three Emmys in his career: in 1998 for the "SG-1" episode "The Nox," in 2005 for the main title theme for "Atlantis," and in 2006 for the "Atlantis" episode "Grace Under Pressure."

Joel Goldsmith was born Nov. 19, 1957, the first of six children by Jerry Goldsmith.

http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9105/stargate-composer-joel-goldsmith-dies-at-54.html

Sad loss. 54 is too damn young.

Always liked his tongue-in-cheek score for THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS.

RIP.

Damn, that's a shame. Too young indeed.

Rest in peace.

Very shocking indeed. RIP

Wow that is young. He never reached his father's level but I liked some of his work and I hope he got a lot out of it, I wish that for anyone pursuing a passion. RIP

Damn. :(

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118053333?refCatId=16

Variety reports he was battling cancer.

He did a helluva good theme for the UNTOUCHABLES series that was on 20 odd years back.