Bruno Nicolai

Bruno Nicolai
Born	26 May 1926 Italy
Died	16 August 1991(1991-08-16) (aged 65) Italy
Genres	Film score
Occupation(s)	Film composer

Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 in Rome – 16 August 1991 in Rome) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director and musical editor most active in the 1960s through the 1980s.

While studying piano and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he befriended Ennio Morricone and formed a long working relationship, with Nicolai eventually conducting for and co-scoring films with Morricone. Nicolai also scored a number of giallo exploitation films and wrote many scores for director Jesús Franco.

His work was featured in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill: Volume 2 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Selected filmography

• Giulietta e Romeo, Riccardo Freda (1964)
• $100,000 for Ringo, Alberto De Martino (1965)
• Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang, Duccio Tessari (1966)
• Django Shoots First, Alberto De Martino (1966)
• Special Mission Lady Chaplin, Alberto De Martino (1966)
• The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, Rossano Brazzi (1966)
• I giorni della violenza, Alfonso Brescia (1967)
• Run, Man, Run, Sergio Sollima (1968)
• 99 Women, Jesús Franco (1968)
• Marquis de Sade: Justine, Jesús Franco (1968)
• Carnal Circuit, Alberto De Martino (1969)
• Flashback, Raffaele Andreassi (1969)
• Zenabel, Ruggero Deodato (1969)
• Love Birds - Una strana voglia d'amare, Mario Caiano (1969)
• Land Raiders, Nathan Juran (1970)
• Arizona si scatenò... e li fece fuori tutti, Sergio Martino (1970)
• The Bloody Judge, Jesús Franco (1970)
• Cloud of Dust... Cry of Death... Sartana Is Coming, Giuliano Carnimeo (1970)
• Count Dracula, Jesús Franco (1970)
• Adiós, Sabata, Gianfranco Parolini (1971)
• The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Sergio Martino (1971)
• Dead Men Ride, Aldo Florio (1971)
• The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, Emilio Miraglia (1971)
• And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave, Juan Bosch (1971)
• The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Emilio Miraglia (1972)
• The Case of the Bloody Iris, Giuliano Carnimeo (1972)
• All the Colors of the Dark, Sergio Martino (1972)
• The French Sex Murders, Ferdinando Merighi (1972)
• Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, Sergio Martino (1972)
• Ubalda, All Naked and Warm, Mariano Laurenti (1972)
• A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Jesús Franco (1972)
• God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth (1972)
• My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow (1972)
• The Big Family, Tonino Ricci (1973)
• The Bloody Vultures of Alaska (1973)
• Man Called Invincible, Giuliano Carnimeo (1973)
• My Name Is Shanghai Joe, Mario Caiano (1973)
• And Then There Were None, Peter Collinson (1974)
• Eyeball, Umberto Lenzi (1975)
• Manhunt in the City, Umberto Lenzi (1975)
• Caligula, (credited as Paul Clemente) Tinto Brass (1979)
• Cammina, cammina, Ermanno Olmi (1982)

External links

• Bruno Nicolai at IMDb
• Bruno Nicolai tribute site