1. Oliver George Wallace was an English-American composer and conductor.
12 Facts About Oliver Wallace
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Oliver Wallace was especially known for his film music compositions, which were written for many animation, documentary, and feature films from Walt Disney Studios.
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Oliver Wallace initially worked primarily on the West Coast in Seattle as a conductor of theater orchestras and as an organist accompanying silent films.
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Oliver Wallace provided the music for 139 of these shorts.
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Oliver Wallace appeared in live action reference footage for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, posing as a live action model for two of the seven dwarfs that were stacked on top of each other, Dopey and Sneezy.
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Oliver Wallace did the whistling voice for Ichabod Crane as he's riding home on his horse in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad.
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Oliver Wallace started writing and orchestrating the score for Dumbo, for which he, together with Frank Churchill, won his first and only Oscar in 1942.
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Oliver Wallace went on to score Victory Through Air Power, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad, Cinderella along with Paul J Smith, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and White Wilderness.
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Oliver Wallace received four other Oscar nominations for the music to Victory Through Air Power with Edward H Plumb and Paul J Smith, Cinderella with Paul J Smith, Alice in Wonderland, and White Wilderness.
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Oliver Wallace understood this and integrated leitmotiv-like elements from the individual songs into the film scores.
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In Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Oliver Wallace wrote not only the score but set the Lawrence Edward Watkin-penned popular songs "Pretty Irish Girl" and "The Wishing Song".
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Oliver Wallace remained active in the studio in Los Angeles until shortly before his death at a Burbank, California hospital on September 15,1963, at the age of 76.