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After a decades-long profession in tv \u2014 and almost a century on this planet \u2014 composer Gerald Fried<\/a> has died at age 95.<\/p>\n Fried died of pneumonia on Friday, February 17, at St. Vincent\u2019s Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in line with Variety<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n After getting his begin within the early Fifties, Fried scored some 40 movies, episodes of 40 TV reveals, and three dozen TV films and miniseries. Fried earned an Emmy Award in 1977 for his music composition for the landmark TV miniseries Roots<\/a><\/em>, 10 hours of which he scored after Quincy Jones<\/a> offered music for the primary two hours.<\/p>\n His different TV work contains music for Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/a><\/em>, Mission: Impossible<\/a><\/em>, Lost in Space<\/a><\/em>, Gunsmoke<\/a><\/em>, and Dynasty<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Fried additionally scored 5 episodes of the unique Star Trek<\/em> TV sequence<\/a>, and his music for the episode \u201cAmok Time\u201d has turned up all over the place from The Simpsons<\/a><\/em> to The Cable Guy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n In a 2013 interview with StarTrek.com<\/a><\/em>, Fried stated he was \u201cshocked, but not altogether surprised\u201d that his music for the sequence took on a lifetime of its personal.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were two shows that I did in television that had reverberations far beyond what you\u2019d expect from the venue and the possibilities. One was Star Trek <\/em>and the other was Roots<\/em>,\u201d he stated. \u201cThere was an atmosphere, doing both shows, that these were a little special and certainly more important than most shows. So I\u2019m not totally surprised, but the enormity of Star Trek<\/em> is a little bit startling and wonderful. I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bronx native additionally shared on the time how an opportunity encounter began his showbiz profession.<\/p>\n \u201cI was an oboe major at Juilliard, and I used to hang around Greenwich Village trying to pretend I was a smart intellectual, which I was not,\u201d he stated. \u201cOne of the nerds down there saved his money and made a little 18-minute short film and said, \u2018Gerry, you go to Juilliard. You know how to compose and conduct a film score?\u2019 I said, \u2018Suuuuure! Nothing to it.\u2019 But this guy, he actually paid for it. He got a studio and hired the best engineer in New York. So he was serious. And I had about two or three months to learn what the hell to do. \u2026 The punchline is that that nerd was Stanley Kubrick<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n