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Mel Leven

Nacimiento : 1914-11-11, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 2007-12-17

Historia

His most famous song is arguably "Cruella de Vil" from the 1961 Disney animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians. That same year, he also wrote the story and new lyrics to sixteen tunes for the film Babes in Toyland. In later years, he wrote songs, stories, and did voice-over work for the PBS children's series Big Blue Marble, and well as working on a number of projects for television commercials. He also composed "When The Buzzards Return To Hinckley Ridge" for the 1969 Disney animated short, "It's Tough to Be a Bird", which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Short Subject in 1970. The song was sung by comedienne Ruth Buzzi. Leven was also the original voice of Snoopy, and was in Snap, Crackle, Pop commercials. He also wrote the Little Ranger Nature series for Disney in the 1960s. His work has been honored with two Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards. A conservationist and talented fly fisherman, in retirement Leven traveled the world in pursuit of fish and became a beloved fixture along Northern California rivers in particular.[1] He features prominently in the 2009 documentary Rivers of a Lost Coast, on the decline of the California steelhead population. -Wikipedia

Películas

Fantástica aventura

Fantástica aventura

Ralphie (voice)

Un juguete de cuerda, un ratón de hojalata con su hijo, inician una nueva existencia cuando, rotos y abandonados en la basura, son recogidos y recompuestos por un vagabundo. El ratón y su hijo, perseguidos por la malvada Rata Manny, encuentran ayuda y amistad entre los habitantes de su nuevo territorio, viven el reencuentro con viejos conocidos y, finalmente, lograrán cumplir su sueño de formar junto a ellos un verdadero hogar. Sus peripecias construyen una historia divertida, brillante e imaginativa, que es todo un clásico moderno de la literatura infantil. Basada en una popular novela de Russell Hoban.

It's Tough to Be a Bird

It's Tough to Be a Bird

Songs

Part cartoon and part documentary, this film offers a humorous look at birds and the ways people perceive them.

Physical Fitness and Good Health

Physical Fitness and Good Health

Songs

Exercise, rest and proper diet are essential for physical fitness. Diagrams show the structure and function of muscles and the importance of exercise to tone muscles, nerves and organs. With rest, muscles are cleansed of wastes and refueled. Food, our only energy source, provides fuel for the body mechanism. If the physical side of the Health Triangle is weak, the other two sides can be adversely affected.

The Social Side of Health

The Social Side of Health

Songs

The narrator tells of the three sides of health represented by a triangle with the physical side at the bottom, the mental side on the left, and the social side-the subject of this film-on the right.

Steps Towards Maturity and Health

Steps Towards Maturity and Health

Songs

There is a focus on the need for physical, mental and social health to be fully developed in order for humans to function properly within society. The film is aimed at an adolescent audience who are independently confronting developments in these aspects of their well-being for the first time.

Al loro con el oro

Al loro con el oro

Songs

Tras la muerte de Alonso J. Flagg, sus dos nietos Arabella y Jack, acostumbrados a llevar en Boston una vida acomodada, quedan en la más absoluta ruina, de modo que tendrán que abrirse camino como sea. Jack, de doce años, un apasionado de los libros de aventuras sobre buscadores de oro, viaja como polizón en un barco con destino a San Francisco, con la esperanza de hacerse rico buscando oro en California. Mientras tanto, su hermana Arabella confía a su fiel mayordomo Bullwhip Griffin la tarea de encontrarlo y traerlo de nuevo a casa.

Back Stage Party

Back Stage Party

Lyricist

Party, enterianment, and Behind the scenes

Back Stage Party

Back Stage Party

Self

Party, enterianment, and Behind the scenes

Lyricist

Pongo y Perdita, los dalmatas protagonistas, son una feliz pareja canina que vive rodeada de sus cachorros junto a sus amos, Roger y Anita. Pero la felicidad no es eterna y hay una malvada mujer, que vive en una gran mansion, que es la mayor enemiga del perro.Cuando se entera de que los protagonistas tienen nada menos que quince cachorros dalmatas, su sueño de obtener un exclusivo abrigo de piel de los pequeños perros, se convierte en una obsesion. Para conseguirlo contrata a dos ladrones y pone en marcha un malvado plan con el unico fin de secuestrar a los dalmatas.

Songs

Pongo y Perdita, los dalmatas protagonistas, son una feliz pareja canina que vive rodeada de sus cachorros junto a sus amos, Roger y Anita. Pero la felicidad no es eterna y hay una malvada mujer, que vive en una gran mansion, que es la mayor enemiga del perro.Cuando se entera de que los protagonistas tienen nada menos que quince cachorros dalmatas, su sueño de obtener un exclusivo abrigo de piel de los pequeños perros, se convierte en una obsesion. Para conseguirlo contrata a dos ladrones y pone en marcha un malvado plan con el unico fin de secuestrar a los dalmatas.

Original Music Composer

The Biblical story of Noah's ark full of animals gets the Disney treatment in this animated short.

Fight On For Old

Fight On For Old

Writer

Insert from "The Boing Boing Show" written by Mel Leven and directed by Ernest Pintoff.