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Tom Boyd is a musician who played the oboe for the music of several Star Trek films and episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Boyd is considered "Hollywood's Oboe" and has performed in over 1500 film and television scores for frequent composeres Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Alan Silvestri and Marc Shaiman.

He attended the Julliard School and played the principal oboe position at the Honolulu Symphony. He was a professor of music at the University of Hawaii and professor of oboe at the Azusa Pacific University. At the age of 30 he moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry making the principal oboe for John Williams on the score for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984 one of his earliest credits.

Boyd performed for several singers during their album recordings and live concerts including Barbra Streisand, Natalie Cole, and John Denver.

Among his countless film and television work are projects such as Octopussy (1983), Police Academy (1984, with David Graf), Ghostbusters (1984), Back to the Future (1985, with Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson), The Color Purple (1985, with Whoopi Goldberg), An American Tail (1986), Highway to Heaven and Magnum, P.I., Spaceballs (1987), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, with Christopher Lloyd), Die Hard (1988), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), Dead Poets Society (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Alien Nation (1989-1990, starring Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, and Michele Scarabelli), Beauty and the Beast (1987-1990, starring Ron Perlman), and The Flash (1990-1991), Pretty Woman (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991, with Christian Slater), The Addams Family (1991, with Christopher Lloyd and Carel Struycken), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992, starring Whoopi Goldberg), The Bodyguard (1992), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler's List (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Species (1995), Independence Day (1996), Men in Black (1997), Titanic (1997, with David Warner), Starship Troopers (1997, with Dina Meyer), My Favorite Martian (1999, with Christopher Lloyd), The Matrix (1999), and Galaxy Quest (1999).

Further works includes X-Men (2000, starring Patrick Stewart and Famke Janssen), South Park (1997-2000), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Gilmore Girls and Felicity (created by J.J. Abrams), Ice Age (2002), Spider-Man (2002, starring Kirsten Dunst), X2 (2003), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), The Village (2004), Night at the Museum (2006), I Am Legend (2007), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), X-Men: First Class (2011), and The Avengers (2012, starring Chris Hemsworth), The Simpsons (1990-2012), Frozen (2013), Into the Woods (2014), and Hybrids (2015, with Paul Sorvino).

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