Composer Joel Goldsmith dies at 54

Emmy nominated composer Joel Goldsmith, son of legendary Oscar winning composer Jerry Goldsmith, died April 29 after a long battle with cancer. He was 54. He programmed synthesizers on some of his father's 1970s and 1980s scores including Runaway. But the younger Goldsmith established his own musical career in the late 1970s and early 1980s, scoring sci-fi and horror films including Laserblast, The Man with Two Brains and Moon 44. It was in television, however, that Goldsmith found his niche, composing the music for more than 350 episodes in the Stargate franchise alone, including most of Stargate SG-1 and all of Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, along with their direct-to-DVD features The Ark of Truth and Continuum. Goldsmith also worked with his father on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (sound effects creator) and scored some 20 minutes of additional music for Star Trek: First Contact, a film his father worked on as well. The elder Goldsmith died in 2004.