Career
Bellis is a former President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy Awards) a University of Southern California lecturer and the composer of music for numerous television movies. He also composed the score the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The House of Quark". 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.
Foreign many years, he has directed the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Film Scoring Workshop. In 1960, he played a teen-aged Cheyenne Bodie in a flashback sequence on the season premiere episode "The Longest Rope", of the American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers western series, Cheyenne, with Clint Walker.
