Composer Gerald Fried, who won an Emmy for the landmark miniseries “Roots” and whose 1960s scores, from “Star Trek” to “Gilligan’s Island,” left an indelible impression on a generation of TV watchers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fried first worked on NBC’s Star Trek midway through the first season on the December 1966 episode “Shore Leave,” but he really ...

Gerald Fried, Emmy-winning composer of the “Roots” miniseries and scores of other TV projects, died Friday in Connecticut of pneumonia, according to media reports. He was 95. Born in the Bronx on Feb.

BRIDGEPORT — Gerald Fried, an Emmy-winning composer who wrote the iconic scores for “Star Trek” and “Gilligan's Island,” has died. He was 95. Fried, a Bridgeport resident, died Friday at St. Vincent's ...

When Gerald Fried tells people he has composed scores for films and television series for some 65 years, they usually ask, “What shows did you work on?” Then, when he mentions that he also composed ...

Composer Gerald Fried, who won an Emmy for the landmark miniseries “Roots” and whose 1960s scores, from “Star Trek” to “Gilligan’s Island,” left an indelible impression on a generation of TV watchers, ...

In addition to Roots, Fried was also Emmy-nominated for The Silent Lovers, The Mystic Warrior, and Napolean and Josephine: A Love Story. Fried had over 140 composer credits to his name, including some ...

Gerald Fried, a composer for some of television’s biggest moments in the 1960s, died Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, CT of pneumonia at age 95. Fried won an Emmy for the miniseries ...

Gerald Fried, the Oscar-nominated, oboe-playing composer who created iconic gladiatorial fight music for the original Star Trek series and collaborated with Quincy Jones to win an Emmy for their theme ...