Bruno Nicolai

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.^[1]

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 a large number of scores for director Jess Franco.

His work was featured in the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill: Volume 2.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Giulietta e Romeo, Riccardo Freda (1964)
• Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang, Duccio Tessari (1966)
• Django Shoots First, 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)
• Land Raiders, Nathan Juran (1969)
• Carnal Circuit, Alberto De Martino (1969)
• Flashback, Raffaele Andreassi (1969)
• Zenabel, Ruggero Deodato (1969)
• Arizona si scatenò... e li fece fuori tutti, Sergio Martino (1970)
• The Bloody Judge Jesús Franco (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)
• 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)
• My Name Is Shanghai Joe, Mario Caiano (1972)
• Ubalda, All Naked and Warm, Mariano Laurenti (1972)
• A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Jesús Franco (1972)
• The Big Family, Tonino Ricci (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)
• Kill Bill: Volume 2, Quentin Tarantino (2004)

References

External links

• Bruno Nicolai at the Internet Movie Database
• Bruno Nicolai tribute site