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".
Sound 156
2000s
- 2001
Everybody Loves Mickey
Music
1960s
- 1965
Strange Bedfellows
Original Music Composer
- 1964
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Music
- 1962
- 1961
The Honeymoon Machine
Original Music Composer
All Hands on Deck
Original Music Composer
- 1960
1950s
- 1959
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Original Music Composer
- 1958
The Fiend Who Walked the West
Music
Ten North Frederick
Music
- 1957
No Down Payment
Original Music Composer
The Wayward Bus
Original Music Composer
- 1956
The Best Things in Life Are Free
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
Good Morning, Miss Dove
Original Music Composer
- 1954
Broken Lance
Original Music Composer
- 1953
Money from Home
Original Music Composer
Vicki
Original Music Composer
A Blueprint for Murder
Original Music Composer
The Desert Rats
Original Music Composer
Taxi
Original Music Composer
- 1952
My Pal Gus
Original Music Composer
My Wife's Best Friend
Original Music Composer
Sailor Beware
Original Music Composer
The Las Vegas Story
Original Music Composer
- 1951
The Guy Who Came Back
Original Music Composer
- 1950
The Happy Years
Original Music Composer
My Friend Irma Goes West
Original Music Composer
Perfect Strangers
Original Music Composer
1940s
- 1949
They Live by Night
Original Music Composer
It Happens Every Spring
Original Music Composer
- 1948
Every Girl Should Be Married
Original Music Composer
The Velvet Touch
Music
The Miracle of the Bells
Original Music Composer
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Original Music Composer
- 1947
The Judge Steps Out
Original Music Composer
A Likely Story
Music
The Farmer's Daughter
Original Music Composer
Beat the Band
Original Music Composer
- 1946
Child of Divorce
Original Music Composer
Crack-Up
Original Music Composer
Till the End of Time
Original Music Composer
The Truth About Murder
Original Music Composer
From This Day Forward
Original Music Composer
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Original Music Composer
- 1945
Man Alive
Original Music Composer
Johnny Angel
Original Music Composer
George White's Scandals
Songs
China Sky
Original Music Composer
The Brighton Strangler
Original Music Composer
Leave It to Blondie
Original Music Composer
What a Blonde
Music
- 1944
No Dough Boys
Music Arranger
Heavenly Days
Original Music Composer
Music in Manhattan
Original Music Composer
A Night of Adventure
Original Music Composer
Tender Comrade
Original Music Composer
- 1943
Government Girl
Original Music Composer
Footlight Glamour
Original Music Composer
Johnny Come Lately
Original Music Composer, Music Director
It's a Great Life
Original Music Composer
The More the Merrier
Original Music Composer
They Came to Blow Up America
Original Music Composer
Margin for Error
Original Music Composer
- 1942
You Were Never Lovelier
Music Director
The Sleepwalker
Original Music Composer
My Gal Sal
Original Music Composer
On the Sunny Side
Original Music Composer
The Lady Has Plans
Music
Blondie Goes to College
Original Music Composer
- 1941
The Art of Self Defense
Original Music Composer
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Original Music Composer
Blondie in Society
Original Music Composer
A Good Time for a Dime
Original Music Composer
Baggage Buster
Original Music Composer
Golden Eggs
Original Music Composer
- 1940
Blondie Plays Cupid
Original Music Composer
So You Won't Talk?
Original Music Composer
Pluto's Dream House
Original Music Composer
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Original Music Composer
Blondie on a Budget
Original Music Composer
1930s
- 1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Original Music Composer
Blondie Takes a Vacation
Original Music Composer
The Lady and the Mob
Original Music Composer
Blondie Meets the Boss
Original Music Composer
- 1938
Farmyard Symphony
Original Music Composer
- 1937
Woodland Café
Original Music Composer
- 1936
Mother Pluto
Original Music Composer
The Country Cousin
Original Music Composer
Mickey's Grand Opera
Original Music Composer
- 1935
Music Land
Original Music Composer
Mickey's Garden
Original Music Composer
The Cookie Carnival
Original Music Composer
Water Babies
Original Music Composer
- 1934
Two-Gun Mickey
Original Music Composer
Peculiar Penguins
Original Music Composer
Funny Little Bunnies
Original Music Composer
The China Shop
Original Music Composer
- 1933
The Night Before Christmas
Original Music Composer
Terra das Canções de Ninar
Original Music Composer
Mickey's Mechanical Man
Music
Father Noah's Ark
Original Music Composer
Acted in 1
1930s
- 1937
Walt Disney's A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios
Movie
Other crew 1
1940s
- 1942
Wings for the Eagle
Additional Music