D'entre as muitas cintas a on treballó, se puet destacar Rio Conchos (1964, Gordon Douglas), Von Ryan's Express (1965, Mark Robson), Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Schaffner), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970, Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku y Toshio Masuda), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970, Sam Peckinpah), Papillon (1973, Franklin J. Schaffner), The Omen (1976, Richard Donner), The First Great Train Robbery (1979, Michael Crichton), Alien (1979, Ridley Scott), Gremlins (1984, Joe Dante), Total Recall (1990, Paul Verhoeven), Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven), L.A. Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson), u The 13th Warrior (1999, John McTiernan). Tamién ye l'autor de buena cosa d'as bandas sonoras d'as cintas de Star Trek y de bellatras series de televisión.