film and television composer, Disney Legends honoree
Paul J. Smith
Also known as Smith, Paul
Born1906-10-30
BirthplaceCalumet
CountryUnited States
GenderMale
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Biography
Paul J. Smith (October 30, 1906) was an American music composer. He spent much of his life working at Disney as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live-action alike, movie and television alike (from 1962 to 1963, he also composed music for Leave It to Beaver). In Fantasia, he is one of the studio employees in the orchestra. He also composed the scores for several of the True-Life Adventures episodes. He also did the stock music for the Blondie series of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
In 1994, he was posthumously awarded as a Disney Legend.
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