Leigh Harline

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-03-26 (62 years old)

Deathday

1969-12-10

Place of Birth

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Leigh Harline

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".

Production

1938

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

as Original Music Composer

1945

Leave It to Blondie

as Original Music Composer

1943

Footlight Glamour

as Original Music Composer

1943

It's a Great Life

as Original Music Composer

1955

House of Bamboo

as Original Music Composer

1940

Pinocchio

as Original Music Composer

1945

Isle of the Dead

as Original Music Composer

1955

Good Morning, Miss Dove

as Original Music Composer

1939

Blondie Meets the Boss

as Original Music Composer

1939

Blondie Brings Up Baby

as Original Music Composer

1939

Blondie Takes a Vacation

as Original Music Composer

1941

Blondie in Society

as Original Music Composer

1940

Blondie Plays Cupid

as Original Music Composer

1940

Blondie on a Budget

as Original Music Composer

1940

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

as Original Music Composer

1946

Crack-Up

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Facts of Life

as Conductor

1964

1951

The Company She Keeps

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Woman on Pier 13

as Original Music Composer

1946

Road to Utopia

as Original Music Composer

1945

Johnny Angel

as Original Music Composer

1958

Man of the West

as Original Music Composer

1956

The Girl Can't Help It

as Original Music Composer

1959

Warlock

as Original Music Composer

1953

Vicki

as Original Music Composer

1941

A Good Time for a Dime

as Original Music Composer

1946

Nocturne

as Original Music Composer

1954

Black Widow

as Original Music Composer

1949

They Live by Night

as Original Music Composer

1940

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip

as Original Music Composer

1940

Pluto's Dream House

as Original Music Composer

1965

Strange Bedfellows

as Original Music Composer

1934

The China Shop

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Goddess of Spring

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Pied Piper

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Pride of the Yankees

as Original Music Composer

1954

Susan Slept Here

as Original Music Composer

1956

23 Paces to Baker Street

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Night Before Christmas

as Original Music Composer

1948

1934

The Wise Little Hen

as Original Music Composer

1947

1941

Golden Eggs

as Original Music Composer

1957

No Down Payment

as Original Music Composer

1944

Tender Comrade

as Original Music Composer

1964

Guns of Diablo

as Original Music Composer

1945

The Brighton Strangler

as Original Music Composer

1957

The True Story of Jesse James

as Original Music Composer

1954

1945

Man Alive

as Original Music Composer

1937

The Old Mill

as Original Music Composer

1947

Beat the Band

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Sky's the Limit

as Music Director

1944

No Dough Boys

as Music Arranger

1938

Boat Builders

as Original Music Composer

1942

You Were Never Lovelier

as Music Director

1947

The Farmer's Daughter

as Original Music Composer

1953

The Desert Rats

as Original Music Composer

1942

The Sleepwalker

as Original Music Composer

1938

Wynken, Blynken & Nod

as Original Music Composer

1935

Water Babies

as Original Music Composer

1936

Mickey's Grand Opera

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Country Cousin

as Original Music Composer

1935

Music Land

as Original Music Composer

1936

Mother Pluto

as Original Music Composer

1936

Toby Tortoise Returns

as Original Music Composer

1936

1938

1942

Bambi

as Music

1946

Till the End of Time

as Original Music Composer

1943

The More the Merrier

as Original Music Composer

1944

Music in Manhattan

as Original Music Composer

1953

Taxi

as Original Music Composer

1954

Broken Lance

as Original Music Composer

1952

The Las Vegas Story

as Original Music Composer

1951

His Kind of Woman

as Original Music Composer

1960

Visit to a Small Planet

as Original Music Composer

1953

Pickup on South Street

as Original Music Composer

1936

Elmer Elephant

as Original Music Composer

1933

Father Noah's Ark

as Original Music Composer

1957

The Enemy Below

as Original Music Composer

1951

I Want You

as Original Music Composer

1935

The Cookie Carnival

as Original Music Composer

1933

Lullaby Land

as Original Music Composer

1934

Peculiar Penguins

as Original Music Composer

1943

They Got Me Covered

as Original Music Composer

1937

Woodland Café

as Original Music Composer

1941

The Art of Self Defense

as Original Music Composer

1949

It Happens Every Spring

as Original Music Composer

1941

Lend a Paw

as Original Music Composer

1934

Funny Little Bunnies

as Original Music Composer

1951

The Guy Who Came Back

as Original Music Composer

1944

A Night of Adventure

as Original Music Composer

1943

They Came to Blow Up America

as Original Music Composer

1948

Every Girl Should Be Married

as Original Music Composer

1944

Heavenly Days

as Original Music Composer

1935

Mickey's Garden

as Original Music Composer

1938

Farmyard Symphony

as Original Music Composer

1934

The Grasshopper and the Ants

as Original Music Composer

1942

Wings for the Eagle

as Additional Music

1935

On Ice

as Original Music Composer

1934

Two-Gun Mickey

as Original Music Composer

1941

Baggage Buster

as Original Music Composer

1952

My Pal Gus

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Judge Steps Out

as Original Music Composer

1948

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

as Original Music Composer

1959

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

as Original Music Composer

1960

The Facts of Life

as Original Music Composer

1961

All Hands on Deck

as Original Music Composer

1955

The Last Frontier

as Original Music Composer

1940

Pinocchio

as Songs

1961

The Honeymoon Machine

as Original Music Composer

1950

My Friend Irma Goes West

as Original Music Composer

1951

That's My Boy

as Original Music Composer

1952

Sailor Beware

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Truth About Murder

as Original Music Composer

1946

The Notorious Lone Wolf

as Original Music Composer

1941

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

as Original Music Composer

1952

My Wife's Best Friend

as Original Music Composer

1947

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

as Original Music Composer

1946

Child of Divorce

as Original Music Composer

1945

China Sky

as Original Music Composer

1956

The Bottom of the Bottle

as Original Music Composer

1956

The Best Things in Life Are Free

as Original Music Composer

1950

Perfect Strangers

as Original Music Composer

1942

On the Sunny Side

as Original Music Composer

1943

Johnny Come Lately

as Original Music Composer

1942

My Gal Sal

as Original Music Composer

1942

1949

1948

The Miracle of the Bells

as Original Music Composer

1946

From This Day Forward

as Original Music Composer

1952

1939

The Lady and the Mob

as Original Music Composer

1953

A Blueprint for Murder

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Happy Years

as Original Music Composer

1940

So You Won't Talk?

as Original Music Composer

1943

Johnny Come Lately

as Music Director

1943

1935

1953

Money from Home

as Original Music Composer

1957

The Wayward Bus

as Original Music Composer

1945

1938

Blondie

as Music

1943

Margin for Error

as Original Music Composer

1942

Blondie Goes to College

as Original Music Composer

1948

The Boy with Green Hair

as Original Music Composer

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