Richard Bellis is notable as an Emmy Award winning composer for the mini-series "Stephen King's It." Bellis is a former President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy Awards) a USC lecturer and the composer of music for numerous TV movies.
He also composed the score the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode The House of Quark.
Bellis attended John Muir High School, graduating in 1964 and became a musical director for traveling acts like Connie Stevens and Sally Struthers. He has run the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop for many years.