Jerry Fielding
Birthday: June 17, 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Deathday: February 17, 1980
A three-time Oscar nominee, Jerry Fielding was among the boldest and most experimental of all Hollywood film composers. His music typically utilized advanced compositional procedures, producing dense, often richly dissonant orchestral textures, sometimes flavored with jazz. Fielding's film music car...eer was marked by enduring and rewarding collaborations with Sam Peckinpah, Michael Winner and Clint Eastwood.
