Leigh Harline
Born: 1907-03-26 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Died: 1969-12-10
Known For: Sound
Biography
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 among various Hollywood studios. He joined ASCAP in 1940. His other popular song compositions include "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee", "Give a Little Whistle" and "Jiminy Cricket".
Filmography
2001
- Everybody Loves Mickey ... (Music)
1965
- Strange Bedfellows ... (Original Music Composer)
1964
- Guns of Diablo ... (Original Music Composer)
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao ... (Music)
- Man's Search for Happiness ... (Music)
1962
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ... (Conductor)
1961
- All Hands on Deck ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Honeymoon Machine ... (Original Music Composer)
1960
- Visit to a Small Planet ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Facts of Life ... (Conductor)
1959
- Warlock ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker ... (Original Music Composer)
1958
- The Fiend Who Walked the West ... (Music)
- Ten North Frederick ... (Music)
- Man of the West ... (Original Music Composer)
1957
- The True Story of Jesse James ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Wayward Bus ... (Original Music Composer)
- No Down Payment ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Enemy Below ... (Original Music Composer)
1956
- Teenage Rebel ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Best Things in Life Are Free ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl Can't Help It ... (Original Music Composer)
- 23 Paces to Baker Street ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Bottom of the Bottle ... (Original Music Composer)
1955
- The Last Frontier ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing ... (Original Music Composer)
- House of Bamboo ... (Original Music Composer)
- Good Morning, Miss Dove ... (Original Music Composer)
1954
- Black Widow ... (Original Music Composer)
- River of No Return ... (Music)
- Broken Lance ... (Original Music Composer)
- Susan Slept Here ... (Original Music Composer)
1953
- Pickup on South Street ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Desert Rats ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Blueprint for Murder ... (Original Music Composer)
- Taxi ... (Original Music Composer)
- Money from Home ... (Original Music Composer)
- Vicki ... (Original Music Composer)
1952
- Sailor Beware ... (Original Music Composer)
- Monkey Business ... (Original Music Composer)
- My Pal Gus ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Las Vegas Story ... (Original Music Composer)
- My Wife's Best Friend ... (Original Music Composer)
1951
- The Company She Keeps ... (Original Music Composer)
- His Kind of Woman ... (Original Music Composer)
- That's My Boy ... (Original Music Composer)
- I Want You ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Guy Who Came Back ... (Original Music Composer)
1950
- Perfect Strangers ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Happy Years ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Woman on Pier 13 ... (Original Music Composer)
- My Friend Irma Goes West ... (Original Music Composer)
1949
- It Happens Every Spring ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Big Steal ... (Music)
- They Live by Night ... (Original Music Composer)
1948
- Every Girl Should Be Married ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Boy with Green Hair ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Miracle of the Bells ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Velvet Touch ... (Music)
1947
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Farmer's Daughter ... (Original Music Composer)
- Beat the Band ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Judge Steps Out ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Likely Story ... (Music)
1946
- Nocturne ... (Original Music Composer)
- Till the End of Time ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Notorious Lone Wolf ... (Original Music Composer)
- From This Day Forward ... (Original Music Composer)
- Road to Utopia ... (Original Music Composer)
- Child of Divorce ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Truth About Murder ... (Original Music Composer)
- Crack-Up ... (Original Music Composer)
1945
- Johnny Angel ... (Original Music Composer)
- China Sky ... (Original Music Composer)
- Man Alive ... (Original Music Composer)
- What a Blonde ... (Music)
- Having Wonderful Crime ... (Music)
- Isle of the Dead ... (Original Music Composer)
- George White's Scandals ... (Songs)
- Leave It to Blondie ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Brighton Strangler ... (Original Music Composer)
1944
- Tender Comrade ... (Original Music Composer)
- Heavenly Days ... (Original Music Composer)
- Music in Manhattan ... (Original Music Composer)
- No Dough Boys ... (Music Arranger)
- A Night of Adventure ... (Original Music Composer)
1943
- Footlight Glamour ... (Original Music Composer)
- The More the Merrier ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sky's the Limit ... (Music Director)
- They Got Me Covered ... (Original Music Composer)
- Johnny Come Lately ... (Original Music Composer)
- Government Girl ... (Music)
- They Came to Blow Up America ... (Original Music Composer)
- It's a Great Life ... (Original Music Composer)
- Margin for Error ... (Original Music Composer)
1942
- Bambi ... (Music)
- My Gal Sal ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Lady Has Plans ... (Music)
- The Pride of the Yankees ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sleepwalker ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wings for the Eagle ... (Additional Music)
- On the Sunny Side ... (Original Music Composer)
- You Were Never Lovelier ... (Music Director)
- Rings on Her Fingers ... (Music)
- Blondie Goes to College ... (Original Music Composer)
1941
- Baggage Buster ... (Original Music Composer)
- Golden Eggs ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town ... (Music)
- Secrets of the Lone Wolf ... (Original Music Composer)
- Lend a Paw ... (Original Music Composer)
- A Good Time for a Dime ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Art of Self Defense ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie in Society ... (Original Music Composer)
1940
- Pinocchio ... (Original Music Composer)
- Donald's Dog Laundry ... (Music)
- Blondie Has Servant Trouble ... (Original Music Composer)
- So You Won't Talk? ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie on a Budget ... (Original Music Composer)
- Pluto's Dream House ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie Plays Cupid ... (Original Music Composer)
1939
- The Lady and the Mob ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie Takes a Vacation ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie Brings Up Baby ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie Meets the Boss ... (Original Music Composer)
1938
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ... (Original Music Composer)
- Boat Builders ... (Original Music Composer)
- Wynken, Blynken & Nod ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blondie ... (Music)
- Farmyard Symphony ... (Original Music Composer)
1937
- Woodland Café ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Old Mill ... (Original Music Composer)
1936
- Elmer Elephant ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mother Pluto ... (Original Music Composer)
- Thru the Mirror ... (Music)
- The Country Cousin ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mickey's Grand Opera ... (Original Music Composer)
- Toby Tortoise Returns ... (Original Music Composer)
1935
- Music Land ... (Original Music Composer)
- On Ice ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Band Concert ... (Music)
- Water Babies ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Cookie Carnival ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mickey's Garden ... (Original Music Composer)
1934
- Peculiar Penguins ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Wise Little Hen ... (Original Music Composer)
- Funny Little Bunnies ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Grasshopper and the Ants ... (Original Music Composer)
- Two-Gun Mickey ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Goddess of Spring ... (Original Music Composer)
- The China Shop ... (Original Music Composer)
1933
- Father Noah's Ark ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Pied Piper ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Night Before Christmas ... (Original Music Composer)
- Mickey's Mechanical Man ... (Music)
- Lullaby Land ... (Original Music Composer)