Jerry Goldsmith started studying the piano at the age of six and had moved onto
composition and theory by the time he was 14. After graduating from the
University of South Carolina, Goldsmith began his career as a composer in a
rather inauspicious job as a clerk typist in the music department at CBS. He
started composing themes for radio shows, moving onto popular TV shows including
Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. In 1957, Goldsmith
turned his attention to film and became acquainted with composer Alfred Newman,
who introduced him to Universal Pictures. ...