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
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies as Self
- Judas ... (Original Music Composer)
- Coast to Coast ... (Original Music Composer)
2003
- Boys on the Run ... (Original Music Composer)
2002
- Avenging Angelo ... (Original Music Composer)
- G ... (Original Music Composer)
2001
- Tortilla Soup ... (Original Music Composer)
2000
- American Tragedy ... (Original Music Composer)
- Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles as Self
- The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 as Self
1999
- The Thomas Crown Affair ... (Original Music Composer)
- Inferno ... (Original Music Composer)
1998
- Wrongfully Accused ... (Original Music Composer)
- Inside the Golden Statue as Self
- Winchell ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Real Macaw ... (Original Music Composer)
1996
- Spy Hard ... (Original Music Composer)
- Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- Bushwhacked ... (Original Music Composer)
- Napoleon ... (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
- Necessary Roughness ... (Original Music Composer)
- Year of the Gun ... (Original Music Composer)
- Under Cover ... (Music)
1990
- Rocky V ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Fourth War ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Operation ... (Music)
- Backstreet Dreams ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Captive in the Land ... (Original Music Composer)
- Rocky Special: Burning Youth ... (Music)
1989
- Tales from the Crypt ... (Music)
- Lock Up ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Karate Kid Part III ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lean On Me ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dolphin Cove ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Cohen and Tate ... (Original Music Composer)
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story ... (Original Music Composer)
1988
- Betrayed ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon ... (Original Music Composer)
- For Keeps ... (Original Music Composer)
1987
- Masters of the Universe ... (Original Music Composer)
- Baby Boom ... (Original Music Composer)
- Broadcast News ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Prayer for the Dying ... (Music)
- I Love N.Y. ... (Original Music Composer)
- Happy New Year ... (Original Music Composer)
1986
- The Karate Kid Part II ... (Original Music Composer)
- F/X ... (Original Music Composer)
- Nomads ... (Original Music Composer)
- Big Trouble ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Boss' Wife ... (Original Music Composer)
1985
- North and South ... (Conductor)
- The Colbys ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Gotcha! ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Master Ninja 5 ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Beer ... (Original Music Composer)
1984
- The Karate Kid ... (Original Music Composer)
- Master Ninja ... (Music)
- Master Ninja II ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mass Appeal ... (Music)
- Unfaithfully Yours ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Coolangatta Gold ... (Music)
- The Bear ... (Original Music Composer)
- Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- The Right Stuff ... (Original Music Composer)
- Emerald Point N.A.S. ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Bad Boys ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Big Chill ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Terry Fox Story ... (Original Music Composer)
1982
- Cagney & Lacey ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Rocky III ... (Original Music Composer)
- I, the Jury ... (Original Music Composer)
- Split Image ... (Original Music Composer)
- Farrell: For the People ... (Music)
- That Championship Season ... (Original Music Composer)
- And They're Off ... (Original Music Composer)
- Traveling Hopefully ... (Music)
1981
- Falcon Crest ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- Dynasty ... (Main Title Theme Composer)
- For Your Eyes Only ... (Original Music Composer)
- Escape to Victory ... (Original Music Composer)
- Neighbors ... (Original Music Composer)
- Carbon Copy ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- The Formula ... (Original Music Composer)
- Private Benjamin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Gloria ... (Original Music Composer)
1979
- Rocky II ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Fantastic Seven ... (Music)
- The Swap ... (Music)
- Goldengirl ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Seduction of Joe Tynan ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Man, a Woman and a Bank ... (Original Music Composer)
- Dreamer ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- Cher... Special ... (Music)
- F.I.S.T. ... (Music Director)
- An Unmarried Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- Paradise Alley ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Big Fix ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Pirate ... (Original Music Composer)
- Ring of Passion ... (Music)
- Slow Dancing In The Big City as Rehearsal Pianist
- Uncle Joe Shannon ... (Music)
- Five Days from Home ... (Original Music Composer)
1977
- The Pirate ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kill Me If You Can ... (Original Music Composer)
- Citizens Band ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Displaced Person ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Sensitive, Passionate Man ... (Music)
1976
- Rocky ... (Original Music Composer)
- Smash-Up on Interstate 5 ... (Music)
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village ... (Original Music Composer)
- Love in the Hamptons ... (Music)
1975
- Pacific Challenge ... (Music)
1974
- Harry and Tonto ... (Original Music Composer)
1973
- Blume in Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- Orfeo 9 ... (Music Director)
1969
- Juliette de Sade ... (Music)
1953
- The Oscars as Self