# Bruno Nicolai

Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director, conductor, pianist and musical editor, most active in the 1960s through the 1980s.
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. Morricone noted in an interview discussing the Dollars Trilogy, "I chose a great musician and friend to be my conductor: Bruno Nicolai, who conducted almost every score of mine from that point on until 1974." Nicolai also scored a number of giallo exploitation films and wrote many scores for director Jesús Franco.
His work was featured in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill: Volume 2 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

## Selected filmography

| Year | Film | Directed by | Notes | Latest CD / Digital Release |
| 1964 | Romeo and Juliet | Riccardo Freda | | |
| 1964 | Mondo Inferno | Antonio Margheriti | with Marco Vicario | Beat Records / BCM9587 / 2019 |
| 1964 | Vita Di Michelangelo | Silverio Blasi | | Kronos Records / KRONGOLD007 / 2014 |
| 1965 | $100,000 for Ringo | Alberto De Martino | | GDM / CD CLUB 7009 / 2002 |
| 1966 | K.O. va e uccidi | Carlo Ferrero | | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3998920 / 2011 |
| 1966 | The Spy with Ten Faces | Alberto De Martino | | Quartet Records / QR337 / 2018 |
| 1966 | Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang | Duccio Tessari | | Quartet Records / QR337 / 2018 |
| 1966 | Django Shoots First | Alberto De Martino | | GDM / GDM 4149 / 2012 |
| 1966 | Special Mission Lady Chaplin | Alberto De Martino | | Digitmovies / CDDM082 / 2007 |
| 1966 | The Christmas That Almost Wasn't | Rossano Brazzi | | Digitmovies / CDDM047 / 2006 |
| 1966 | El Cisco | Sergio Bergonzelli | | Digitmovies / CDDM073 / 2006 |
| 1967 | Day of Violence | Alfonso Brescia | | GDM / CD CLUB 7016 / 2003 |
| 1967 | Lucky, the Inscrutable | Jesús Franco | | Quartet Records / QR337 / 2018 |
| 1967 | Dirty Heroes | Alberto De Martino | | Beat Records / CDCR 86 / 2009 |
| 1968 | Gentleman Killer | Giorgio Stegani | as George Finley | Digitmovies / CDDM036 / 2005 |
| 1968 | Run, Man, Run | Sergio Sollima | | Digitmovies / CDDM095 / 2007 |
| 1968 | Roma come Chicago | Alberto de Martino | a.k.a. Bandits in Rome | Quartet Records / QR441 / 2021 |
| 1968 | Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankhamen | Ruggero Deodato | as Roger Rockefeller | Digitmovies / CDDM079 / 2007 |
| 1968 | The Last Mercenary | Mel Welles | as Dieter Müller | Beat Records / CDCR 32 / 1996 |
| 1969 | 99 Women | Jesús Franco | | Digitmovies / CDDM034 / 2005 |
| 1969 | Marquis de Sade: Justine | Jesús Franco | | Digitmovies / CDDM268 / 2014 |
| 1969 | Desert Assault | Mino Loy | | Digitmovies / CDDM049 / 2006 |
| 1969 | Carnal Circuit | Alberto De Martino | a.k.a. Femmine Insaziabili | Quartet Records / QR463 / 2021 |
| 1969 | Flashback | Raffaele Andreassi | | |
| 1969 | Geminus | Luciano Emmer | | Edipan / PANCD2506 / 2014 |
| 1969 | Zenabel | Ruggero Deodato | | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3997610 / 2006 |
| 1969 | Love Birds - Una strana voglia d'amare [it] | Mario Caiano | | GDM / GDM 4106 / 2007 |
| 1970 | Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion | Jesús Franco | | Digitmovies / CDDM030 / 2005 |
| 1970 | Land Raiders | Nathan Juran | | Digitmovies / CDDM190 / 2011 |
| 1970 | Nightmares Come At Night | Jesús Franco | | Digitmovies / CDDM117 / 2008 |
| 1970 | Arizona Colt Returns | Sergio Martino | | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3998010 / 2007 |
| 1970 | The Bloody Judge | Jesús Franco | | Lucertola Media / LMCD 011 / 1998 |
| 1970 | Count Dracula | Jesús Franco | | Digitmovies / CDDM319 / 2022 |
| 1970 | Adiós, Sabata | Gianfranco Parolini | | Quartet Records / QR198 / 2015 |
| 1970 | Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay | Giuliano Carnimeo | as Anthony Ascott | Beat Records / CDCR 39 / 2005 |
| 1970 | Apocalypse Joe | Leopoldo Savona | | Beat Records / CDCR 45 / 1998 |
| 1970 | Cloud of Dust... Cry of Death... Sartana Is Coming | Giuliano Carnimeo | | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3997910 / 2007 |
| 1971 | Christ from the ocean | Ramon Fernández | | Digitmovies / CDDM159 / 2010 |
| 1971 | And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave | Juan Bosch | as John Wood | Saimel Bandas Sonoras / 3998010 / 2007 |
| 1971 | The Case of the Scorpion's Tail | Sergio Martino | | Digitmovies / CDDM028 / 2004 |
| 1971 | The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave | Emilio Miraglia | | Digitmovies / CDDM040 / 2005 |
| 1971 | Dead Men Ride | Aldo Florio | | GDM / GDM 4150 / 2012 |
| 1971 | Civilta Del Mediterraneo | | | Kronos Records / KRONGOLD039 / 2021 |
| 1972 | When Women Lost Their Tails | Pasquale Festa Campanile | | Digitmovies / DGST025 / 2017 |
| 1972 | All the Colors of the Dark | Sergio Martino | | Digitmovies / CDDM019 / 2004 |
| 1972 | His Name Was Holy Ghost | Giuliano Carnimeo | as Anthony Ascott | Beat Records / CDCR 127 / 2014 |
| 1972 | The French Sex Murders | Ferdinando Merighi | | |
| 1972 | God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth | Juan Bosch | as John Wood | |
| 1972 | A Virgin Among the Living Dead | Jesús Franco | | GDM / GDM 4150 / 2012 |
| 1972 | Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key | Sergio Martino | | Digitmovies / CDDM016 / 2004 |
| 1972 | The Case of the Bloody Iris | Giuliano Carnimeo | | Digitmovies / CDDM013 / 2004 |
| 1972 | My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow | Juan Bosch | as John Wood | |
| 1972 | The Red Queen Kills Seven Times | Emilio Miraglia | | Cam Sugar / CS009RSD / 2022 |
| 1972 | Ubalda, All Naked and Warm | Mariano Laurenti | | Digitmovies / CDDM055 / 2006 |
| 1973 | The Big Family | Tonino Ricci | | Edipan / PAN CD 2504 / 1997 |
| 1973 | A Full Day's Work | Jean-Louis Trintignant | | GDM / GDM 2019 / 2019 |
| 1973 | Man Called Invincible | Giuliano Carnimeo | | Beat Records / CDCR 117 / 2012 |
| 1973 | Forbidden to Know | Nadine Trintignant | | Digitmovies / CDDM132 / 2009 |
| 1973 | The Bloody Vultures of Alaska | Harald Reinl | | |
| 1973 | Eleonora [it] | Silverio Blasi | | Edipan / PAN CD 2507 / 2014 |
| 1973 | My Name Is Shanghai Joe | Mario Caiano | | GDM / GDM 4174 / 2014 |
| 1974 | And Then There Were None | Peter Collinson | | Digitmovies / CDDM320 / 2023 |
| 1975 | Eyeball | Umberto Lenzi | | Quartet Records / QR554 / 2024 |
| 1975 | Manhunt in the City | Umberto Lenzi | | Digitmovies / CDDM100 / 2007 |
| 1975 | Then, The Train | Emilio Marsili | | CAM / Digital / 2025 |
| 1977 | Don Giovanni In Sicilia | Guglielmo Morandi | | Kronos Records / KRONGOLD012 / 2015 |
| 1979 | Caligula | Tinto Brass | as Paul Clemente | Cimmerian Records / CRCD023 / 2017 |
| 1982 | Cammina, cammina | Ermanno Olmi | | |