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Leigh Harline
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American film composer and songwriter (1907-1969)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Pinocchio
- Pinocchio Songbook
- Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Songbook
- When You Wish Upon a Star
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Film & TV
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Academy Award-winning composer (score, Pinocchio (1940), conductor, songwriter ("When You Wish Upon a Star" [Academy award, Best Song, 1940) and arranger Leigh Harline was educated at the University of Utah. He was a music student of J. Spencer Cornwall. He arranged the first transcontinental broadcast from Los Angeles in 1932, and that year joined the Walt Disney Studios. From 1941 he freelanced…
Known for
- Walt Disney's A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios1937
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1907-03-26
- Active to
- 1969-12-10
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 26,545
- Total plays
- 212,083
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Leigh Adrian Harline (March 26, 1907 – December 10, 1969) was a film composer. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Song (for When You Wish Upon a Star) for Disney's Pinocchio (1940). The tune later become the theme for Disney's television series. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Leigh+Harline">Read m
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Adrian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Salt Lake City
- Place of death
- Long Beach
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Residence
- Salt Lake City
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- influenced by
- Max Steiner
- place of burial
- Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1907-03-26
- date of death
- 1969-12-10
- cause of death
- head and neck cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Leigh Harline
- partner in business or sport
- Ned Washington
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Leigh Harline
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- number of viewers/listeners
- 2358089
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