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Apr 11, 1986 · L.A. Times Archives. April 11, 1986 12 AM PT. Louis Debney, who began a long affiliation with Walt Disney when he sold the famed animator newspapers as a boy and then went on to produce 100 ...
Dec 15, 2000 · By Patricia Ward Biederman. Dec. 15, 2000 12 AM PT. Composer John Debney was a latecomer to “The Emperor’s New Groove,” the Disney animated feature that opens today. He had just eight weeks ...
Apr 4, 2016 · Working on the score for the new live action "The Jungle Book" was not just a dream come true; it was coming home. In an interview, Debney talked about the magic of growing up with the creative talents behind many of Disney's greatest films and how it inspired him to want to compose movie scores. When he was eight, Louis arranged for John to ...
Lou Debney was born on January 3, 1916. He and Les Clark, one of the Nine Old Men of Animation, knew each other and Walt and Roy Disney from the Kingswell Avenue studio neigh-borhood before Lou and Les came to work for the studio.
Debney was 14 and selling newspapers outside the old Disney Studios near Vermont and Kingswell avenues in the Silver Lake district. Three years later he had gone to work for Walt Disney as a cutter and soon was put in charge of the assembly operation for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937. He also had been an assistant director on "Two Gun Mickey," the studio's last black-and-white ...
Created by: JR Wes. Added: Dec 24, 2021. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 235155769. Source citation. Disney Studios producer. Father of film composer John Debney. Worked on The Mickey Mouse Club, Zorro, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin and numerous other Disney projects.
Apr 6, 2016 · "The Jungle Book" composer John Debney grew up, literally, at Disney hanging out with veteran songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman. ... His father, Louis Debney, worked there for more than 40 ...
