Frank ChurchillFilmography

Occupation:
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

  • Disneyland: Cavalcade of Songs

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Synopsis: In this early episode of his TV anthology Disneyland, Walt Disney informs the viewers of how he has used music in his cartoons and live-action films, beginning with the classic "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" in 1933's The Three Little Pigs. Other examples include the songs from Snow White and Read More

    1955

  • Peter Pan

    Crew: Songwriter

    Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel

    Synopsis: A pet project of Walt Disney's since 1939, this animated version of James M. Barrie's Peter Pan reached full fruition in 1953. Eschewing much of Barrie's gentle whimsy (not to mention the more sinister aspects of the leading character), Disney and his staff fashioned a cheery, tuneful cartoon Read More

    2/5/53

  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

    Crew: Songwriter

    Actors: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore, Pat O'Malley, John Floyardt

    Synopsis: Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all about gawky 17th century schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and his love for the beautiful Katrina. The Read More

    1949

  • Bambi

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Synopsis: The classic Felix Salter story Bambi provides the basis for this near-perfect Disney animated feature. We follow the male deer Bambi from birth, through his early childhood experiences with woodland pals Thumper the rabbit and Flower the skunk, the traumatic sudden death of Bambi's mother at the Read More

    1942

  • Dumbo

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Actors: Sterling Holloway, Edward S. Brophy, Herman Bing, Verna Felton, Cliff Edwards

    Synopsis: The shortest of Disney's major animated features Dumbo involves a baby elephant with unusually large ears. Ostracized from the rest of the circus animals, poor Dumbo is even separated from his mother, who is chained up in a separate cage after trying to defend her child. Only brash-but-lovable Read More

    1941

  • The Reluctant Dragon

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Actors: Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant, Claud Allister, Barnett Parker

    Synopsis: The very first Disney feature to include live-action footage, this behind-the-scenes documentary about the studio's animation process includes the cartoon short of the title, which in later years was often exhibited separately from this film. Robert Benchley stars as himself, a visitor to the Read More

    1941

  • Breaking the Ice

    Crew: Songwriter

    Actors: Bobby Breen, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Costello, Robert H. Barrat, Dorothy Peterson

    Synopsis: Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite relatives, our hero gets a job singing at a Philadelphia ice-skating rink. Here he tries to earn enough money to help his beloved widowed mother (Dolores Costello) wrest Read More

    1938

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Synopsis: It was called "Disney's Folly." Who on earth would want to sit still for 90 minutes to watch an animated cartoon? And why pick a well-worn Grimm's Fairy Tale that every schoolkid knows? But Walt Disney seemed to thrive on projects which a lesser man might have written off as "stupid" or Read More

    1937

  • The Three Little Pigs

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Synopsis: Originally produced in 1933 and the winner of an Academy Award for Best Cartoon Short Subject, Three Little Pigs tells the classic fairy tale of two hasty pigs, one smart one, and the Big Bad Wolf they're all trying to escape from. Featuring the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?," the Read More

    1933

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