Gerald Fried (born February 13, 1928) is an American musician, composer and oboist , well known for his compositions for film and television.
Born and raised in the Bronx , New York City, Fried attended The Juilliard School of Music. He went to The 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 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , working with Robert Drasnin , and also the original Star Trek "The Ritual/Ancient Battle/2nd Kroykah" (now known as "Star Trek fight music") for the episode "Amok Time ." Among his many television show themes is his jazz-inspired intro for the western series Shotgun Slade
Fried is perhaps best 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.
Film and television scores Day of the Fight Stanley Kubrick Fear and Desire Lili Charles Walters (Composer: Additional Music - Uncredited)Killer's Kiss (1955) - Director: Stanley KubrickThe Killing Paths of Glory The Vampire Paul Landres Bayou Trooper Hook Charles Marquis Warren Dino Thomas Carr I Bury the Living Albert Band The Return of Dracula The Flame Barrier Machine-Gun Kelly Roger Corman The Lost Missile I Mobster The Cry Baby Killer Terror in a Texas Town Joseph H. Lewis Curse of the Faceless Man Edward L. Cahn M Squad Dead or Alive (1958)The Big Kill (1958)Prescription for Murder (1958)High School Big Shot Joel Rapp Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (1 Episode)The Salted Mine (1959)Timbuktu Jacques Tourneur Wagon Train The Steve Campden Story (1959)Cast a Long Shadow Thomas Carr Shotgun Slade Riverboat A Cold Wind in August Alexander Singer Twenty Plus Two (1961) - Director: Joseph M. Newman The Second Time Around (1961) - Director: Vincent Sherman Whispering Smith Stake-Out (1961)Three for One (1961)The Interpreter (1961)The Cabinet of Caligari The Great Rights (1963) (Short) - Director: William T. HurtzBreaking Point 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 FlaumSpecials for United Artists: Ten Seconds That Shook the World (1963) (TV Movie Documentary) - Director: Marshall FlaumSpecials for United Artists: The American Woman in the 20th Century (1963) (TV Movie Documentary) - Director: Marshall FlaumStory of a Rodeo Cowboy (1963) (Documentary) - Director: Kent MacKenzieSpecials for United Artists: The Rise and Fall of American Communism (1964) (TV Movie Documentary) - Director: Marshall FlaumSpecials for United Artists: Berlin - Kaiser to Khrushchev (1964) (TV Movie Documentary) - Director: Marshall FlaumOne Potato, Two Potato (1964) - Director: Larry Peerce My Three Sons A Serious Girl (1964)Specials for United Artists: The Battle of Britain (1964) (TV Movie Documentary) - Director: Marshall FlaumSpecials for United Artists: Trial at Nuremberg (1964) (TV Movie Documentary) - Director: Marshall FlaumGunsmoke Dry Road to Nowhere (1965)Gilligan's Island The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) (45 Episodes)Deathwatch (1966) - Director: Vic Morrow (Featuring: Leonard Nimoy )One Spy Too Many Joseph Sargent One of Our Spies Is Missing Felony Squad The Death of a Dream (1966)Jericho Eric the Redhead (1966)The Man Who Never Was It's About Time T.H.E. Cat To Bell T.H.E. Cat (1966)A Hot Place to Die (1967)A Slight Family Trait (1967)Star Trek (TV Series) (4 Episodes)Shore Leave Amok Time Catspaw Friday's Child 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 Matchless (1967)Stanley the Safecracker (1967)Harley and the Killer (1967)The Karate Killers Barry Shear The Flying Nun (1967) (TV Series)Dundee and the Culhane The Murderer Stallion Brief (1967)The 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 Collision of the Planets (1967)Castles in Space (1967)Family Affair 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 WryeWhat Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969) - Director: Lee H. Katzin Mannix A Sleep in the Deep (1969)Image of the City (1969) (Short) - Director: Charles and Ray Eames Too Late the Hero The Enchanted Years (1971) (Documentary) - Director: Nicolas Noxon The Grissom Gang The Sixth Sense (TV Series) (1 Episode)Once Upon a Chilling (1972)The Baby Ted Post Birds Do It, Bees Do It I Will Fight No More Forever Richard T. Heffron Police Story Losing Game (1975)Police Woman Pattern for Evil (1975)Survive! (1976) - Director: René Cardona Jr.Vigilante Force George Armitage Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (TV Movie) - Director: Delbert Mann Roots 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 GalfasThe Beasts Are on the Streets 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 Guy Green Roots: The Next Generations 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 Larry Peerce The Chisholms 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 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 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 Miniseries) - Director: Sidney Hayers The Wild and the Free (1980) (TV Movie) - Director: James Hill Flamingo Road 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 For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair Ray Austin Casablanca (TV Series) (2 Episodes)Jenny (1983)Divorce Casablanca Style (1983)A Killer in the Family 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 JampelThe Mystic Warrior Embassy (1985) (TV Movie) - Director: Robert Michael LewisNapoleon and Josephine: A Love Story 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 Kevin Hooks Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II (TV Series) (1 Episode)In Harms Way (2004)20 Ways (2012) (Short) - Director: Peter M. KershawPsyche Ascending (2013) (Short) - Director: Peter M. KershawHot Rod Rumble Oboe )
Geralds 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 Jim Carrey .
It was also featured in two Futurama Star Trek vs. Futurama fight scene "Where No Fan Has Gone Before " (2002). 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.
In December 1987, Gerald Fried lost his 5-year-old son, Zachary Fried, to AIDS (from tainted blood from 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.
