Leigh Harline(1907-1969)

Composer
Music Department
Soundtrack

Academy Award-winning composer (score, Pinocchio (1940), conductor, songwriter ("When You Wish Upon a Star" [Academy award, Best Song, 1940) and arranger Leigh Harine 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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Won 2 Oscars
- 3 wins & 7 nominations total

Known for

Pinocchio

7.5

Composer

1940

Roy Atwell, Stuart Buchanan, Adriana Caselotti, Eddie Collins, Pinto Colvig, Billy Gilbert, Otis Harlan, Lucille La Verne, Scotty Mattraw, Harry Stockwell, and George Kiplunks in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

7.6

Composer(music)

1937

Gamer

5.7

Soundtrack("I've Got No Strings")

2009

Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., James Spader, Paul Bettany, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Chris Hemsworth in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Avengers: Age of Ultron

7.3

Soundtrack("I've Got No Strings")

2015

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Composer

Billy Joel: When You Wish Upon a Star
5.4
Music Video
- Composer (original music by)
- 1991
Simply Mad About the Mouse
6.9
Short
- Composer (segments "When You Wish Upon A Star", "I've Got No Strings", music by)
- 1991
In this Holy Place
Video
- Composer
- 1968
Daniel Boone
7.3
TV Series
- Composer
- 1965–1967
Vacation Playhouse
7.6
TV Series
- Composer
- 1967
Gunsmoke
8.1
TV Series
- Composer (music composed by)
- 1966
Off We Go
TV Movie
- Composer (1966)
- 1966
Lost in Space
7.2
TV Series
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1966
Peyton Place
7.3
TV Series
- Composer
- 1965
Perry Mason
8.3
TV Series
- Composer
- 1965
Ben Casey
7.1
TV Series
- Composer
- 1965
Valentine's Day
7.6
TV Series
- Composer
- 1965
Strange Bedfellows
6.2
- Composer
- 1965
Guns of Diablo
5.6
- Composer
- 1964
Man's Search for Happiness
7.6
Short
- Composer
- 1964

Music Department

Pinocchio
5.1
- composer: original songs
- 2022
Mannecchio
Short
- Music Department
- 2021
Fantasmic!
9.2
Short
- music: "I've Got No Strings" (uncredited)
- 1992
The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue
8.7
Video
- musical director: archive footage
- 1985
Gunsmoke
8.1
TV Series
- music conducted by
- 1966
Lost in Space
7.2
TV Series
- composer: stock music (uncredited)
- 1966
Perry Mason
8.3
TV Series
- conductor
- 1965
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
7.1
- conductor (uncredited)
- 1964
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
7.4
TV Series
- composer: theme music
- 1963–1964
The Sword in the Stone
7.1
- musical director (uncredited)
- 1963
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
6.4
- conductor (uncredited)
- 1962
The Honeymoon Machine
6.1
- conductor (uncredited)
- 1961
Flaming Star
6.5
- composer: additional music (uncredited)
- 1960
The Facts of Life
6.3
- conductor
- 1960
Wake Me When It's Over
6.3
- composer: additional music (uncredited)
- 1960

Soundtrack

Here
6.3
- arranger: "Three Blind Mice (Main Title)"
- 2024
Wish
5.6
- music: "When You Wish Upon A Star"
- 2023
Elämäni Biisi
7.4
TV Series
- writer: "When You Wish Upon A Star"
- 2023
Lang Lang Plays Disney
6.9
TV Special
- writer: "When You Wish Upon a Star"
- 2023
Once Upon a Studio
8.3
Short
- music: "When You Wish Upon a Star"
- writer: "When You Wish Upon A Star"
- 2023
Rogue Not Quite One
5.6
TV Special
- music: "When You Wish Upon a Star" (uncredited)
- 2023
Pinocchio
5.1
- music: "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor's Life for Me)", "I've Got No Strings", "When You Wish Upon a Star"
- 2022
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
6.9
- writer: "When You Wish Upon a Star"
- 2022
Goofy in How to Stay at Home
6.7
TV Mini Series
- writer: "Baggage Buster" and "Elusive Rabbit"
- writer: "Baggage Buster" and "Baggage Buster Incidental #2"
- writer: "The Goof Packs His Trunk"
- 2021
Pretend It's a City
8.0
TV Mini Series
- writer: "Morning Bath"
- 2021
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
7.9
TV Series
- writer: "When You Wish Upon A Star"
- 2020
Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert
TV Special
- lyrics: "When You Wish Upon A Star"
- music: "When You Wish Upon A Star"
- 2020
Prop Culture
8.0
TV Series
- music: "When You Wish Upon a Star" (uncredited)
- 2020
The Disney Family Singalong
7.6
TV Special
- music: "When You Wish Upon a Star"
- 2020
The Simpsons
8.6
TV Series
- writer: "When You Wish Upon a Star" (uncredited)
- 2020