1938Nominee
Career Highlight
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Leigh Harline
Director
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
March 26, 1907
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".
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1940Nominee
Career Highlight
Pinocchio
1942Nominee
Career Highlight
Bambi
Career Highlights
1959Highlight
Career Highlight
Warlock
1954Highlight
Career Highlight
River of No Return
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio
Bambi