Richard Roe Bellis (who was born on April 3, 1946 in

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) is an American film and television music composer, former CLGA president, former

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governor,

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lecturer, musical director and former actor. He composed the music for the 49th '' Star Trek Deep Space Nine'' episode "

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" and the 1990 two-part supernatural horror and dark fantasy television miniseries ''Stephen King's It''. He has worked with

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to write the music to the

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attraction "Countdown to Extinction" (later renamed to "

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"). Bellis attended

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from which he graduated in 1964. He became a musical director for traveling acts like

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and

Sally Struthers Sally Anne Struthers (born July 28, 1947) is an American actress and activist. She played Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton) on ''All in the Family'', for which she won two Emm ...

. For many years, he has directed the

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Film Scoring Workshop.

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Music by Richard Bellis
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