John Debney - my 201st pick to be named aDisney Legend

Composer John Debney is my 201st pick to be named a Disney Legend. According to a an article with Variety magazine - "Debney, who has worked on approximately 100 films, earning an Oscar nomination for “The Passion of the Christ” and creating music for box office hits like “Iron Man 2” and “The Princess Diaries,” practically grew up on the Disney backlot.

“I was a Disney brat,” he says with a laugh. His father, Louis Debney, worked there for more than 40 years, starting as a clapperboy on “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and eventually becoming a producer on TV shows such as “Zorro” and “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color.”

As a boy, John Debney hung out with legendary Disney songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman, and his first job out of college was in the Disney music department."
A partial list of his Disney work includes:

Compositions for Disney Feature Films

1987    Sport Goofy in Soccermania   Music   Walt Disney Animation Studios

1993    Hocus Pocus    Walt Disney Pictures

1999    My Favorite Martian

1999    Inspector Gadget

2000    The Emperor's New Groove    Score Composed and Conducted       

2001    The Princess Diaries    Music   Walt Disney Pictures

2002    Snow Dogs

2004    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

2005    The Pacifier

2005    Chicken Little       Score Composed and Conducted       

2009    Hannah Montana: The Movie             Music   

2016    The Jungle Book

Compositions for Disneyland

Song

Splash Mountain

Haunted Mansion Holiday

Phantom Manor

It's a Small World (Disneyland Paris)