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Frank Edwin Churchill (October 20, 1901 – May 14, 1942) was an American film composer and songwriter. He wrote most of the music for films produced by Walt Disney , such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Dumbo , Bambi , The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad , and Peter Pan .
Frank Churchill is a character in Jane Austen's Emma. He is the first child of Mr. Weston, formerly known as Captain Weston, and his first wife, Mrs. Weston of the Churchill family. His mother died three years after her marriage to Captain Weston, so Frank never really knew her.
Frank Edwin Churchill was an American composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including "Whistle While You Work" and "Someday My Prince Will Come".
Frank Churchill. Composer: Dumbo. Academy Award-winning composer and songwriter ("Whistle While You Work", "Some Day My Prince Will Come"), and pianist, educated at the University of California.
Frank Churchill was a composer and songwriter for Disney films, known for songs like "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come". He died by suicide in 1942 at his ranch near Los Angeles.
Composer Frank Churchill’s toe-tapping “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” featured in Disney’s 1933 animated short Three Little Pigs, raised the spirits of countless Depression-weary audiences who adopted the song as a resilient national anthem of hope.
Churchill began his career playing piano in silent cinemas at the age of 15 before becoming an accompanist at KNX in 1924. Churchill then joined Walt Disney Studios in 1930, where he became a staple composer, penning "The Three Little Pigs" as well as "Hi-Ho". Churchill was found dead at his piano with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1942.
