Emil Richards Emil Richards is a percussionist who has performed on over 2 , 000 films and television shows , including episodes of and and nine of the . Richards considers working on to be one of the highlights of his career . He is currently part of composer Michael Giacchino ' s regular orchestra and was thus a part of the orchestra for ' s . Richards and Giacchino previously collaborated on the films " The Incredibles " , " Sky High " , " Mission : Impossible III " , and " Ratatouille " , and they continued to work on the television series " Lost " . Richards was born Emilio Radocchia in Hartford , Connecticut . He began playing the xylophone at the age of six , and while in tenth grade , he joined the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and performed with various jazz musicians around New England . After serving in the First Cavalry Army Band as assistant band leader , he graduated from the Julius Hartt School of Music ( now part of the University of Hartford ) and later from Hillard College . Throughout the 1950s and 1960s , he played various percussion instruments with jazz ensembles first in New York and then in Los Angeles , where he settled permanently in 1959 . He collaborated with such artists as Frank Sinatra , Nelson Riddle , Judy Garland , Sarah Vaughan , and Doris Day . In 1962 , in response to a request from President John F . Kennedy , Richards and a small jazz band joined Sinatra on a world tour to benefit needy children . It was during this tour that Richards began a what is currently the world ' s largest collection of percussion instruments from around the world . After the tour , Richards continued to work with Sinatra and recorded sessions with such artists as the Beach Boys , Jan and Dean , Bing Crosby , and Nat King Cole . In the meantime , Richards contributed to a steadily increasing number of film scores . One of the many film composers he worked with over the years was the late Jerry Goldsmith . In addition to four " Star Trek " films , Richards and Goldsmith worked together on such films as " Seven Days in May " , " The Sand Pebbles " , " Planet of the Apes " , " Patton " , " Papillon " , " Chinatown " , " Logan ' s Run " , " Poltergeist " , " Twilight Zone : The Movie " , " Gremlins " , " Innerspace " , " The ' burbs " , " Gremlins 2 : The New Batch " , " The River Wild " , " Congo " , " Executive Decision " , " L . A . Confidential " , " Air Force One " , and " Mulan " . The many other film scores on which Richards has worked include " The Nutty Professor " ( 1963 ) , " Doctor Zhivago " ( 1965 ) , " Cool Hand Luke " ( 1967 ) , " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid " ( 1969 ) , " Shaft " ( 1971 ) , " The Exorcist " ( 1973 ) , " Soylent Green " ( 1973 ) , " Jaws " ( 1975 ) , " Taxi Driver " ( 1976 ) , " All the President ' s Men " ( 1976 ) , " Close Encounters of the Third Kind " ( 1977 ) , " The Deer Hunter " ( 1978 ) , National Lampoon ' s " Animal House " ( 1979 ) , " Ghostbusters " ( 1984 ) , " Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom " ( 1984 ) , " Cocoon " ( 1985 ) , " Ferris Bueller ' s Day Off " ( 1986 ) , " Fatal Attraction " ( 1987 ) , " Wall Street " ( 1987 ) , " Lethal Weapon " ( 1987 ) , " Die Hard " ( 1988 ) , " The Hunt for Red October " ( 1990 ) , " Beauty and the Beast " ( 1991 ) , " Batman Returns " ( 1992 ) , " Jurassic Park " ( 1993 ) , " Mission : Impossible " ( 1996 ) , " Independence Day " ( 1996 ) , " Men in Black " ( 1997 ) , " X - Men " ( 2000 ) , " Spider - Man " ( 2002 ) , " Chicago " ( 2002 ) , " Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl " ( 2003 ) , and " Spider - Man 2 " , just to name a few . He has also worked on countless television series and mini - series and has been part of the orchestra for several Academy Awards ceremonies .