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Bill Conti

Highest Rated: 100% Citizens Band (1977)

Lowest Rated: 13% Avenging Angelo (2002)

Birthday: Apr 13, 1942

Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, USA

While Bill Conti may forever be associated with the rousing, infectious music he composed for the series of "Rocky" films, he has also proved the scores for countless TV programs and films. As a child in Rhode Island, he learned to play the piano from his father. By the time the family relocated to Miami, Conti was the front man for his own jazz band. After receiving degrees in music from Louisiana State and Juilliard, he moved to Italy to study opera composition. During his stay in Rome, he began to provide music for films such as "Candidate per un Assassino/Candidate for a Killing." At the 1971 Venice Film Festival, Conti met director Paul Mazursky who hired the musician to supervise the score of "Blume in Love" (1973). The two collaborated further on "Harry and Tonto" (1974) and "Next Stop, Greenwich Village" (1975). But it was his music for the Oscar-winning sleeper hit "Rocky" (1976), especially the Academy Award-nominated theme "Gonna Fly Now," that established Conti as an in-demand composer. He went on to score several films directed and/or starring Sylvester Stallone (including the "Rocky" sequels) as well as several for "Rocky" director John G Avildsen (most notably "The Karate Kid" films).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 69% Citizens Band
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98% 79% Broadcast News Watchlist
96% 90% The Right Stuff
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94% 77% The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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93% 69% Rocky Watchlist 91% 79% Gloria Watchlist
89% 73% An Unmarried Woman
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89% 81% Bad Boys
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89% 83% The Karate Kid Watchlist
88% 81% Harry and Tonto
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Perfect Game 60% 70% 2008 Original Music Rocky Balboa 78% 76% 2006 Original Music Avenging Angelo 13% 34% 2002 Original Music G 29% 60% 2002 Original Music Boys on the Run 60% 2001 Original Music Tortilla Soup 76% 71% 2001 Original Music The Thomas Crown Affair 69% 77% 1999 Music Winchell 83% 71% 1998 Original Music Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story 60% 69% 1996 Original Music Bushwhacked 18% 38% 1995 Original Music Yellowstone 1994 Original Music The Scout 33% 21% 1994 Original Music 8 Seconds 31% 94% 1994 Original Music Blood In, Blood Out 64% 94% 1993 Original Music Rookie of the Year 41% 52% 1993 Original Music The Adventures of Huck Finn 75% 50% 1993 Original Music Necessary Roughness 35% 47% 1991 Original Music Year of the Gun 29% 28% 1991 Original Music Grand Canyon 79% 70% 1991 Original Music By the Sword 75% 1991 Original Music Backstreet Dreams 50% 1990 Original Music Rocky V 32% 31% 1990 Original Music A Captive in the Land 1990 Original Music Lock Up 31% 50% 1989 Music The Karate Kid Part III 15% 35% 1989 Original Music
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