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Bruno Nicolai

Known for: Sound

Biography: 1926-05-26

Deathday: 1991-08-16 (65 years old)

Biography

Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director, conductor, pianist 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. Morricone noted in an interview discussing the Dollars Trilogy, "I chose a great musician and friend to be my conductor: Bruno Nicolai, who conducted almost every score of mine from that point on until 1974." 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.

Filmography

all 191

Movies 186

Director 15

TV Shows 5

Music

Bruno Nicolai

Biography

Filmography

all 191

Movies 186

Director 15

TV Shows 5

The House of Forgotten Souls (2023)

In Pursuit of Barbara (1991)

Zeno's Conscience (1988)

Buckeye and Blue (1988)

Notte italiana (1987)

Walking, Walking (1983)

Parole e sangue (1982)

Looking for Jesus (1982)

Chocolate (1980)

The Persian Lamb Coat (1980)

Caligula (1979)

Traffic Jam (1979)

The Smile of Pythia (1979)

Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1977)

Il maestro di violino (1976)

Two .38 Magnums for a City of Carrion (1975)

Manhunt in the City (1975)

Eyeball (1975)

The Antichrist (1974)

And Then There Were None (1974)

Allonsanfan (1974)

Almost Human (1974)

Fifteen Year Old Captain (1974)

The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (1973)

Eleonora (1973)

A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)

Here We Go Again, Eh Providence? (1973)

Lovers of Devil's Island (1973)

Hell Hounds of Alaska (1973)

Massacre in Rome (1973)

Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)

Revolver (1973)

Défense de savoir (1973)

The Winsome Widow (1973)

Once Upon a Time in the West There Was a Man Called Invincible (1973)

Eugenie de Sade (1973)

A Full Day's Work (1973)

The Big Family (1973)

Diary of a Teacher (1973)

Woman Buried Alive (1973)

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? (1972)

A White Dress for Marialé (1972)

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)

Ubalda, All Naked and Warm (1972)

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)

My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow (1972)

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)

God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth (1972)

The French Sex Murders (1972)

Sex Charade (1972)

His Name Was Holy Ghost (1972)

What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

When Women Lost Their Tails (1972)

Winged Devils (1972)

1870 (1972)

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)

Come un uragano (1971)

Paolo e Francesca (1971)

Romance (1971)

Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)

Why (1971)

The Automobile (1971)

They Call Him Cemetery (1971)

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

Armiamoci e partite! (1971)

X312 - Flight to Hell (1971)

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)

At the End of the Rainbow (1971)

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)

And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1971)