Richard Bellis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Bellis

American composer

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1946

Place of Birth: Pasadena, California, United States

Profession: actor, composer, film score composer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Richard Roe Bellis (born April 3, 1946) in Pasadena, California), is an American composer.
One of his most notable works was for the mini-series Stephen King's It.
Bellis is a former President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy Awards) a USC lecturer and the composer of music for numerous TV movies.He also composed the score the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The House of Quark". He worked with Walt Disney Imagineering to write the score to the Animal Kingdom Attraction "Countdown to Extinction," later renamed to "Dinosaur".Bellis attended John Muir High School, from which he graduated in 1964.
He became a musical director for traveling acts like Connie Stevens and Sally Struthers.
For many years, he has directed the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop. In 1960, he played a teen-aged Cheyenne Bodie in a flashback sequence on the season premiere episode "The Longest Rope", of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Cheyenne, with Clint Walker.