Joseph Koo Kar-Fai MBE GBS (Chinese: 顧嘉煇; 25 February 1931[1] – 3 January 2023) was a Hong Kong composer.

[citation needed] Upon graduation he returned to Hong Kong and worked for both the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest movie studios, scoring, among others, the Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and The Way of the Dragon in 1972.

[citation needed] Koo joined TVB as their director of music in 1973,[7] where from the late 1970s until immigrating to Canada in the 1990s, he collaborated with the lyricist Wong Jim on many memorable TV theme songs.

[3] In 2007, he wrote the theme song for The Drive of Life, a drama produced by TVB to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover.

[11][12][13][14][15] Joseph's son, Koo Chi Ho, revealed that he had suffered symptoms and complications of COVID-19 and decreased appetite and energy weeks before his death.