Bill Conti
Born: 1942-04-13 in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Known For: Sound
Biography
Bill Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American composer and conductor. He is best known for his film scores, including Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), The Next Karate Kid (1994), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Dynasty (and its sequel The Colbys), and The Right Stuff (1983), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky and for the title song of For Your Eyes Only. He was the musical director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times.
Filmography
2025
- Philadelphia by the Delaware ... (Songs)
2021
- Stallone: Frank, That Is as Self
2020
- 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic as Self (archive footage)
2017
2012
- The Real Love ... (Music)
2011
2009
- The Perfect Game ... (Original Music Composer)
2008
- Role Model: Gene Wilder ... (Original Music Composer)
2006
- Rocky Balboa ... (Original Music Composer)
- Staccato: A Composer's Notebook with Bill Conti as Self
2004
- Judas ... (Original Music Composer)
- Coast to Coast ... (Original Music Composer)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies as Self
2003
- Boys on the Run ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
- G ... (Original Music Composer)
- Avenging Angelo ... (Original Music Composer)
2001
- Tortilla Soup ... (Original Music Composer)
2000
- The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 as Self
- Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles as Self
- American Tragedy ... (Original Music Composer)
1999
- The Thomas Crown Affair ... (Original Music Composer)
- Inferno ... (Original Music Composer)
1998
- Winchell ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wrongfully Accused ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Real Macaw ... (Original Music Composer)
- Inside the Golden Statue as Self
1996
- Spy Hard ... (Original Music Composer)
- Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- Napoleon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bushwhacked ... (Original Music Composer)
1994
- 8 Seconds ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Next Karate Kid ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Scout ... (Original Music Composer)
- Yellowstone ... (Original Music Composer)
1993
- Bound by Honor ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rookie of the Year ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Adventures of Huck Finn ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- Nails ... (Original Music Composer)
1991
- Under Cover ... (Music)
- Necessary Roughness ... (Original Music Composer)
- Year of the Gun ... (Original Music Composer)
1990
- Rocky V ... (Original Music Composer)
- Backstreet Dreams ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Fourth War ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Operation ... (Music)
1989
- Tales from the Crypt ... (Music)
- Lean On Me ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lock Up ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Karate Kid Part III ... (Original Music Composer)
- Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cohen and Tate ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dolphin Cove ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
1988
- For Keeps ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Betrayed ... (Original Music Composer)
1987
- Broadcast News ... (Original Music Composer)
- Masters of the Universe ... (Original Music Composer)
- Baby Boom ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Prayer for the Dying ... (Music)
- Happy New Year ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Love N.Y. ... (Original Music Composer)
1986
- The Karate Kid Part II ... (Original Music Composer)
- Big Trouble ... (Original Music Composer)
- F/X ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Boss' Wife ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nomads ... (Original Music Composer)
1985
- North and South ... (Conductor)
- The Colbys ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Gotcha! ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beer ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Master Ninja 5 ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
1984
- The Karate Kid ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Bear ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mass Appeal ... (Music)
- Unfaithfully Yours ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Coolangatta Gold ... (Music)
- Master Ninja II ... (Original Music Composer)
- Master Ninja ... (Music)
- Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- Bad Boys ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Terry Fox Story ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Right Stuff ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Big Chill ... (Music)
- Emerald Point N.A.S. ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
1982
- Cagney & Lacey ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Rocky III ... (Original Music Composer)
- Split Image ... (Original Music Composer)
- I, the Jury ... (Original Music Composer)
- Traveling Hopefully ... (Music)
- And They're Off ... (Original Music Composer)
- That Championship Season ... (Original Music Composer)
- Farrell: For the People ... (Music)
1981
- Dynasty ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Falcon Crest ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- For Your Eyes Only ... (Original Music Composer)
- Carbon Copy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Escape to Victory ... (Original Music Composer)
- Neighbors ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- Gloria ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Formula ... (Original Music Composer)
- Private Benjamin ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- Rocky II ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Swap ... (Music)
- Goldengirl ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dreamer ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Seduction of Joe Tynan ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Man, a Woman and a Bank ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Fantastic Seven ... (Music)
1978
- Paradise Alley ... (Original Music Composer)
- Slow Dancing In The Big City as Rehearsal Pianist
- The Big Fix ... (Original Music Composer)
- F.I.S.T. ... (Music Director)
- An Unmarried Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Pirate ... (Original Music Composer)
- Uncle Joe Shannon ... (Music)
- Five Days from Home ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ring of Passion ... (Music)
- Cher... Special ... (Music)
1977
- Citizens Band ... (Music)
- A Sensitive, Passionate Man ... (Music)
- Kill Me If You Can ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Displaced Person ... (Original Music Composer)
1976
- Rocky ... (Original Music Composer)
- Smash-Up on Interstate 5 ... (Music)
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village ... (Music)
- Love in the Hamptons ... (Music)
1975
- Pacific Challenge ... (Music)
1974
- Harry and Tonto ... (Original Music Composer)
1973
- Orfeo 9 ... (Music Director)
- Blume in Love ... (Music)
1969
- Juliette de Sade ... (Music)