American composer and bandleader (1922–1980) who scored The Trouble with Tribbles and Spectre of the Gun for the original Star Trek.
Jerry Fielding was an American arranger, bandleader and composer for film and television. He wrote two scores for the original Star Trek, each rather different from the usual sound of the series.
For The Trouble with Tribbles in the second season he supplied light comic music, including the accompaniment to the bar-room brawl on Space Station K-7. For Spectre of the Gun, the surreal third-season Western in which the landing party must relive the gunfight at the OK Corral, he wrote a sparse score coloured by saloon piano.
Fielding is best known for his film work, notably for the director Sam Peckinpah on The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs, and for the theme to Hogan's Heroes.