Winston Hibler
Born: 1910-10-08 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1976-08-08
Known For: Writing
Biography
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, film producer, director, and narrator associated with Walt Disney Studios. Educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he began his career as a Broadway actor before transitioning to writing for radio, film, and television. Joining Disney in 1942, Hibler contributed as a songwriter, co-writing songs like "Following the Leader" from Peter Pan and "I Wonder" from Sleeping Beauty. He narrated several of Disney's True-Life Adventures documentaries and produced films such as Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961) and The Aristocats (1970). Hibler's versatile contributions significantly shaped Disney's storytelling and musical legacy.
Filmography
1977
- Halloween Hall o' Fame ... (Story)
1975
- The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures as Narrator (voice)
1974
- The Island at the Top of the World ... (Producer)
- The Bears and I ... (Producer)
- The Castaway Cowboy ... (Producer)
1973
- One Little Indian ... (Producer)
1972
- Napoleon and Samantha ... (Producer)
- Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon ... (Director)
- The Nashville Coyote ... (Director)
1971
- Lefty, the Dingaling Lynx ... (Director)
- Get the Message as Narrator
1970
- The Aristocats ... (Producer)
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant ... (Producer)
- King of the Grizzlies as Narrator
1968
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day ... (Story)
- The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit ... (Producer)
- Pablo and the Dancing Chihuahua as Narrator
1967
- Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar ... (Director)
1966
- The Ugly Dachshund ... (Co-Producer)
- Joker, The Amiable Ocelot as Narrator
1965
- A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood ... (Story)
- Ida, the Offbeat Eagle as Narrator
1964
- Those Calloways ... (Co-Producer)
1963
- Little Dog Lost as Narrator (voice)
1962
- Sammy, the Way-Out Seal ... (Co-Producer)
- Sancho, the Homing Steer ... (Lyricist)
1961
- Flash, The Teenage Otter
- Chico, the Misunderstood Coyote as Narrator (voice)
- Nikki, Wild Dog of the North ... (Writer)
- Wonders of the Water Worlds as Narrator
1960
- Jungle Cat as Narrateur
- Wild Burro of the West as Narrator
- Islands of the Sea as Narrator
1959
- Sleeping Beauty ... (Story)
- Mysteries of the Deep as Narrator
1958
- Rusty and the Falcon ... (Lyricist)
- Ama Girls as Narrator
- The Pigeon That Worked a Miracle ... (Producer)
- Wales as Narrator
- Seven Cities of Antarctica as Narrator
- White Wilderness as Narrator
1957
- Perri as Narrator
- The Blue Men of Morocco as Narrator (voice)
- The Crisler Story/Prowlers of the Everglades as Narrator
1956
- Secrets of Life as Narrator
- Disneyland: U.S.A. ... (Writer)
- Samoa as Narrator
- Sardinia as Narrator (voice)
1955
- The African Lion as Narrator
- Music Land ... (Writer)
- The Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland as Self
- Men Against the Arctic as Narrator
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney ... (Director)
- The Vanishing Prairie as Narrator
- Siam as Narrator
- Operation Undersea as Self
1953
- Peter Pan ... (Story)
- The Living Desert as Narrator
- Ben and Me ... (Adaptation)
- Bear Country as Narrator
- The Alaskan Eskimo as Narrator
1952
- The Olympic Elk as Narrator
- Water Birds as Narrator
1951
- Alice in Wonderland ... (Story)
- Nature's Half Acre as Narrator
- Operation Wonderland as Self
1950
- Cinderella ... (Story)
- Hold That Pose as Commentator(uncredited)
- Beaver Valley as Narrator (voice)
1949
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ... (Story)
- The Wind in the Willows ... (Story)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ... (Writer)
1948
- Seal Island as Narrator
- The Legend of Johnny Appleseed ... (Story)
1944
- The Amazon Awakens as Self (Narrator)
1935
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Marcellus (uncredited)