Richard Bellis
Richard Bellis (who was born on April 3, 1946 in Pasadena, California) is an American television composer, former CLGA president, former ATAS governor, USC lecturer and former child actor. He composed the music for the 49th Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The House of Quark" and the 1990 horror TV miniseries Stephen King's It. He has worked with Walt Disney Imagineering to write the score to the Disney's Animal Kingdom attraction "Countdown to Extinction" (later renamed to "Dinosaur"). Bellis attended John Muir High School from which he graduated in 1964. He became a musical director for traveling acts like Connie Stevens and Sally Struthers. For many years, he has directed the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop.