In passing

Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie-score composer

Beverly Hills, Calif. Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith, who created the memorable music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from the “Star Trek” and “Planet of the Apes” series to “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” and “Dr. Kildare,” died Wednesday after battling cancer, his assistant said. He was 75.

A classically trained composer and conductor who began musical studies at age 6, Goldsmith’s award-dappled Hollywood career – he was nominated for 18 Academy Awards, won one, and also took home five Emmys – spanned nearly half a century.

He crafted an astonishing number of TV and movie scores that have become classics in their own right. From the clarions of “Patton” to the syrupy theme for TV’s “The Waltons,” Goldsmith sometimes seemed virtually synonymous with soundtracks.

He took on action hits such as “Total Recall,” which he considered one of his best scores, as well as the “Star Trek” movies and more lightweight fare, like his most recent movie theme, for last year’s “Looney Tunes: Back in Action.” His hundreds of works included scores for “The Blue Max,” “L.A. Confidential,” “Basic Instinct” and “Chinatown.”

Goldsmith’s output also spilled into television, with the themes for shows including “Dr. Kildare,” “Barnaby Jones” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” He also wrote a fanfare that is used in Academy Awards telecasts.

He won his Oscar for best original score in 1976 for “The Omen.” He earned five Emmy Awards and was nominated for nine Golden Globe awards, though he never won one.

Golden A. Frinks, 84, civil rights leader

Edenton, N.C. Golden A. Frinks, a North Carolina minister who organized civil-rights protests around the country while working as a field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in North Carolina, died Monday after a short illness, his daughter said. He was 84.

Frinks was among those who protested the 1993 arrest in Hampton, Va., of Allen Iverson, then a high school All-American basketball player, on charges of fighting in a bowling alley. Iverson served four months in prison before then-Gov. Douglas Wilder granted him clemency. He later played basketball at Georgetown and went on to become a star in the NBA.

He also organized protests in the 1960s and 1970s to push for jobs for blacks in Hertford and helped blacks to have their trash collected in Williamston.

His first contentious work in civil rights began in the late 1950s when he helped students in Edenton win the right to enter the local movie theater through the front door rather than an alley entrance, said his daughter, Goldie Frinks Wells.

Emile Peynaud, 92, winemaking expert

Paris Emile Peynaud, a wine expert credited with major advances in the way wine is made, died July 18 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, his wife said. He was 92.

Born in Madiran in southwestern France, Peynaud was hired by the Calvet winery in Bordeaux as a trader at age 15.

After World War II, when he was imprisoned by the Nazis, he studied the best way to taste, smell and evaluate balance in wine.

His most significant work came advising winemakers after the war, a former colleague said. He recommended they focus on using the best grapes, control temperatures in fermentation and improve cellar hygiene.

Peynaud wrote two classic books about wine, “Knowing and Making Wine” and “The Taste of Wine.”