• Source: Gerald Fried

      • 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).


      Life and career


      Born and raised in The Bronx, New York City, Fried attended The Juilliard School of Music. He attended High School of Music & Art, graduating in 1945, and entered the world of film soundtracks when he composed the scores for five of Stanley Kubrick's earliest films.
      After moving to Los Angeles he began composing and arranging music for several films such as Terror in a Texas Town and television shows such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., working with Robert Drasnin, and also the original Star Trek, for which he composed the famous musical underscore "The Ritual/Ancient Battle/2nd Kroykah" (now known as "Star Trek fight music") for the episode "Amok Time." Among his television show themes is his jazz-inspired intro for the western series Shotgun Slade.
      Fried was known for his collaboration with Quincy Jones on their Emmy Award-winning score for the 1977 miniseries Roots. Fried also arranged the exotica album Orienta. He won Golden Pine Award (Lifetime Achievement) at the 2013 International Samobor Film Music Festival, along with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Clint Eastwood. His credits consist of nearly 300 films, television episodes, and specials.


      Personal life and death


      In December 1987, Fried lost his 5-year-old son, Zachary, due to AIDS from tainted blood supplied by a blood bank. His screenplay and stage play Morningtime Train was based on the experience. Zachary's childhood drawings were used on T-shirts in fundraisers for The Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Fried had four other children, with his first wife Judith Fried: Daniel, Deborah, Jonathan, and Joshua were all born in the 1950s.
      Fried died of pneumonia in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on February 17, 2023, four days after his 95th birthday.


      Filmography


      Day of the Fight (1951) — (Short Documentary) — Director: Stanley Kubrick
      Fear and Desire (1953) — Director: Stanley Kubrick
      Lili (1953) — Director: Charles Walters (Composer: Additional Music — Uncredited)
      Killer's Kiss (1955) — Director: Stanley Kubrick
      The Killing (1956) — Director: Stanley Kubrick
      Paths of Glory (1957) — Director: Stanley Kubrick
      The Vampire (1957) — Director: Paul Landres
      Bayou (1957) — Director: Harold Daniels
      Trooper Hook (1957) — Director: Charles Marquis Warren
      Dino (1957) — Director: Thomas Carr
      I Bury the Living (1958) — Director: Albert Band
      The Return of Dracula (1958) — Director: Paul Landres
      The Flame Barrier (1958) — Director: Paul Landres
      Machine-Gun Kelly (1958) — Director: Roger Corman
      The Lost Missile (1958) — Director: Lester Wm. Berke
      I Mobster (1958) — Director: Roger Corman
      The Cry Baby Killer (1958) — Director: Jus Addiss
      Terror in a Texas Town (1958) — Director: Joseph H. Lewis
      Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) — Director: Edward L. Cahn
      M Squad (TV series, 3 episodes)
      Dead or Alive (1958)
      The Big Kill (1958)
      Prescription for Murder (1958)
      High School Big Shot (1959) — Director: Joel Rapp
      Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV series, 1 episode)
      The Salted Mine (1959)
      Timbuktu (1959) — Director: Jacques Tourneur
      Wagon Train (TV series, 1 episode)
      The Steve Campden Story (1959)
      Cast a Long Shadow (1959) — Director: Thomas Carr
      Shotgun Slade (TV series, 17 episodes)

      Riverboat (TV series, 15 episodes)

      A Cold Wind in August (1961) — Director: Alexander Singer
      Twenty Plus Two (1961) — Director: Joseph M. Newman
      The Second Time Around (1961) — Director: Vincent Sherman
      Whispering Smith (TV series, 3 episodes)
      Stake-Out (1961)
      Three for One (1961)
      The Interpreter (1961)
      The Cabinet of Caligari (1962) — Director: Roger Kay
      The Great Rights (1963) (short) — Director: William T. Hurtz
      Breaking Point (TV series, 1 episode)
      Fire and Ice (1963)
      Specials for United Artists: December 7th — The Day of Infamy (1963) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Marshall Flaum
      Specials for United Artists: The Yanks Are Coming (1963) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Marshall Flaum
      Specials for United Artists: Ten Seconds That Shook the World (1963) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Marshall Flaum
      Specials for United Artists: The American Woman in the 20th Century (1963) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Marshall Flaum
      Story of a Rodeo Cowboy (1963) (documentary) — Director: Kent MacKenzie
      Specials for United Artists: The Rise and Fall of American Communism (1964) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Marshall Flaum
      Specials for United Artists: Berlin — Kaiser to Khrushchev (1964) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Marshall Flaum
      One Potato, Two Potato (1964) — Director: Larry Peerce
      My Three Sons (TV series, 1 episode)
      A Serious Girl (1964)
      Specials for United Artists: The Battle of Britain (1964) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Marshall Flaum
      Specials for United Artists: Trial at Nuremberg (1964) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Marshall Flaum
      Gunsmoke (TV series, 1 episode)
      Dry Road to Nowhere (1965)
      Gilligan's Island (TV series, 39 episodes)

      The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV series, 45 episodes)

      Deathwatch (1966) — Director: Vic Morrow (Featuring: Leonard Nimoy)
      One Spy Too Many (1966) — Director: Joseph Sargent
      One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) — Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
      The Felony Squad (TV series, 1 episode)
      The Death of a Dream (1966)
      Jericho (TV series, 1 episode)
      Eric the Redhead (1966)
      The Man Who Never Was (TV series, 14 episodes)

      It's About Time (TV series, 22 episodes)

      T.H.E. Cat (TV series, 3 episodes)
      To Bell T.H.E. Cat (1966)
      A Hot Place to Die (1967)
      A Slight Family Trait (1967)
      Star Trek (TV series, 5 episodes)
      Shore Leave (1966)
      Amok Time (1967)
      Catspaw (1967)
      Friday's Child (1967)
      The Paradise Syndrome (1968)
      Mission: Impossible (TV series, 6 episodes)
      Odds on Evil (1966)
      The Widow (1967)
      Trek (1967)
      Operation "Heart" (1967)
      The Diplomat (1968)
      The Code (1969)
      Mr. Terrific (TV series, 3 episodes)
      Matchless (1967)
      Stanley the Safecracker (1967)
      Harley and the Killer (1967)
      The Karate Killers (1967) — Director: Barry Shear
      Dundee and the Culhane (TV series, 1 episode)
      The Murderer Stallion Brief (1967)
      Iron Horse (TV series, 4 episodes)
      T Is for Traitor (1967)
      Six Hours to Sky High (1967)
      The Return of Hode Avery (1967)
      Five Days to Washtiba (1967)
      National Geographic (TV series documentary, 1 episode)
      Winged World (1967)
      Lost in Space (TV series, 2 episodes)
      Collision of the Planets (1967)
      Castles in Space (1967)
      Family Affair (TV series, 2 episodes)
      The Mother Tongue (1967)
      Christmas Came a Little Early (1968)
      Danger Has Two Faces (1968) (TV movie) — Director: John Newland
      The Killing of Sister George (1968) — Director: Robert Aldrich
      California (1968) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Donald Wrye
      What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969) — Director: Lee H. Katzin
      Mannix (TV series, 1 episode)
      A Sleep in the Deep (1969)
      Image of the City (1969) (short) — Director: Charles and Ray Eames
      Too Late the Hero (1970) — Director: Robert Aldrich
      The Enchanted Years (1971) (documentary) — Director: Nicolas Noxon
      The Grissom Gang (1971) — Director: Robert Aldrich
      The Sixth Sense (TV series, 1 episode)
      Once Upon a Chilling (1972)
      The Baby (1973) — Director: Ted Post
      Birds Do It, Bees Do It (1974) (documentary) — Director: Nicolas Noxon
      I Will Fight No More Forever (1975) (TV movie) — Director: Richard T. Heffron
      Police Story (TV series, 1 episode)
      Losing Game (1975)
      Police Woman (TV series, 2 episodes)
      Pattern for Evil (1975)
      Cold Wind (1975)
      Survive! (1976) — Director: René Cardona Jr.
      Vigilante Force (1976) — Director: George Armitage
      Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (TV movie) — Director: Delbert Mann
      Roots (TV miniseries, 7 episodes)
      Part II (1977)
      Part III (1977)
      Part IV (1977)
      Part V (1977)
      Part VI (1977)
      Part VII (1977)
      Part VIII (1977)
      The Spell (1977) (TV movie) — Director: Lee Philips
      Testimony of Two Men (1977) (TV miniseries) — Director: Leo Penn
      Sex and the Married Woman (1977) (TV movie) — Director: Jack Arnold
      Roots: One Year Later (1978) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Robert Guenette
      Cruise Into Terror (1978) (TV movie) — Director: Bruce Kessler
      Maneaters Are Loose! (1978) (TV movie) — Director: Timothy Galfas
      The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978) (TV movie) — Director: Peter R. Hunt
      Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978) (TV movie) — Director: Leslie H. Martinson
      The Immigrants (1978) (TV movie) — Director: Alan J. Levi
      Emergency! (TV series, 2 episodes)
      Greatest Rescues of Emergency (1978)
      The Convention (1979)
      The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979) (TV movie) — Director: Guy Green
      Roots: The Next Generations (TV miniseries, 7 episodes)
      Chapter 1 — 1880s (1979)
      Chapter 2 — Turn of the 20th Century (1979)
      Chapter 3 — World War I (1979)
      Chapter 4 — The Great Depression (1979)
      Chapter 5 — World War II (1979)
      Chapter 6 — Postwar (1979)
      Chapter 7 — The 1960s (1979)
      The Bell Jar (1979) — Director: Larry Peerce
      The Chisholms (1979) (TV miniseries) — Director: Mel Stuart
      The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (1979) (TV movie) — Director: Earl Bellamy
      The Rebels (1979) (TV movie) — Director: Russ Mayberry
      Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (1979) (TV movie) — Director: Glenn Jordan
      The Seekers (1979) (TV movie) — Director: Sidney Hayers
      Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (1979) (TV movie) — Director: Lou Antonio
      Disaster on the Coastliner (1979) (TV movie) — Director: Richard C. Sarafian
      The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980) (TV movie) — Director: Paul Wendkos
      Gauguin the Savage (1980) (TV movie) — Director: Fielder Cook
      The Silent Lovers (1980) (TV movie) — Director: John Erman
      Condominium (1980) (TV movie) — Director: Sidney Hayers
      The Wild and the Free (1980) (TV movie) — Director: James Hill
      Flamingo Road (TV series, 7 episodes)
      Pilot (1980)
      Illicit Weekend (1981)
      The Titus Tapes (1981)
      A Mother's Revenge (1981)
      The Fish Fry (1981)
      Bad Girl (1981)
      They Drive by Night (1981)
      The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981) (TV movie) — Director: Peter Baldwin
      Murder Is Easy (1982) (TV movie) — Director: Claude Whatham
      American Playhouse (TV series, 1 episode)
      For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)
      Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983) (TV movie) — Director: Ray Austin
      Casablanca (TV series, 2 episodes)
      Jenny (1983)
      Divorce Casablanca Style (1983)
      A Killer in the Family (1983) (TV movie) — Director: Richard T. Heffron
      Dynasty (TV series, 3 episodes)
      The Proposal (1983)
      The Accident (1984)
      The Voice: Part 1 (1984)
      Australia's Animal Mysteries (1984) (TV movie documentary) — Director: Barbara Jampel
      The Mystic Warrior (1984) (TV movie) — Director: Richard T. Heffron
      Embassy (1985) (TV movie) — Director: Robert Michael Lewis
      Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (TV miniseries, 3 episodes)
      Episode #1.1 (1987)
      Episode #1.2 (1987)
      Episode #1.3 (1987)
      Drop-Out Mother (1988) (TV movie) — Director: Charles S. Dubin
      Roots: The Gift (1988) (TV movie) — Director: Kevin Hooks
      Star Trek: New Voyages — Phase II (TV series, 1 episode)
      In Harms Way (2004)
      20 Ways (2012) (short) — Director: Peter M. Kershaw
      Psyche Ascending (2013) (short) — Director: Peter M. Kershaw
      Unbelievable!!!!! (2016) (feature) — Director: Steven L. Fawcette


      Other music credits


      Hot Rod Rumble (1957) — Director: Leslie H. Martinson — (Musician: Oboe)
      To the Moon and Beyond (1964)- (composer). "To The Moon and Beyond is the title of a special motion picture produced for and shown at the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair".


      Awards




      "The Ritual" (music from Star Trek, TOS)


      Fried's underscore "The Ritual/Ancient Battle/2nd Kroykah", from the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" (1967) was featured in the 1996 movie The Cable Guy, starring Jim Carrey. It was also featured in two Futurama episodes, "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" (2000), as an alien anthem, in a Star Trek vs. Futurama fight scene "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (2002), and in the dream sequence at the beginning of "Spock Amok", the fifth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022). It has also appeared in an episode of The Simpsons "Deep Space Homer" (1994). The score was also specifically chosen in the STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery mission on March 4, 2011, as the morning wake-up music for the crew on Day 9 of the mission.


      References




      External links


      Gerald Fried at IMDb
      Gerald Fried discography at Discogs
      Gerald Fried biography Archived 2019-12-19 at the Wayback Machine at startreksoundtracks.com
      Gerald Fried at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
      Gerald Fried Papers papers at the American Heritage Center.

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