Leopold Stokowski(1882-1977)

Music Department
Actor
Soundtrack

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Fantasia 2000 (1999)

Flamboyant, latterly white-maned, U.S. conductor known best for his popularization of classical music. (He is also known for teaching 'Mickey Mouse' a few things about music in Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940), in which Stokowski was featured with the Philadelphia Orchestra). He was a pioneer in the use of hi-fi sound and bringing great music to the screen.

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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 5 wins total

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Known for

Fantasia

7.7

Music Department(uncredited)

1940

DOA: Dead or Alive

4.8

Soundtrack("Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture")

2006

Fantasia 2000

7.1

Music Department(segment Sorcerer's Apprentice, The)

1999

The Great Beauty

7.7

Soundtrack("Symphony in C Major: II. Adagio")

2013

Credits

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Music Department

Fantasia 2000
7.1
- conductor (segment Sorcerer's Apprentice, The)
- 1999
Omnibus
8.3
TV Series
- musical director (segment Pictures at an Exhibition)
- 1952
Fantasia
7.7
- arranger
- conductor (uncredited)
- 1940
One Hundred Men and a Girl
6.7
- conductor
- 1937

Actor

Soundtrack

The Bear
8.6
TV Series
- performer: "Danse Macabre"
- 2024
Golda
5.9
- performer: "Dido and Aeneas, Act III: When I Am Laid in Earth, Dido's Lament"
- 2023
Nine Perfect Strangers
7.0
TV Series
- arranger: "Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo" (uncredited)
- 2021
Ted K
6.0
- performer: "Piano Concerto No. 5: II. Adagio Un Poco Mosso"
- 2021
The Goldfinch
6.4
- performer: "Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major Op. 73 II. Adagio un poco mosso"
- 2019
Can You Keep a Secret?
5.4
- arranger: "Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo"
- 2019
The Wild Pear Tree
8.0
- performer: "Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582"
- 2018
Freedom
6.0
- arranger: "Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, When I Am Laid in Earth, Dido's Lament"
- 2017
In Search of Perfect Consonance
7.5
Short
- arranger: "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"
- 2016
Le Dernier Cigare
7.4
Short
- performer: "Nocturnes: No. 1. Nuages"
- 2015
Marguerite
6.9
- arranger: "Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565"
- 2015
Christmas, Again
6.6
- performer: "Danse Arab"
- 2014
Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
8.2
- performer: "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVIII: Andante cantabile"
- 2014
Nostalgia Critic
7.5
TV Series
- arranger: "A Night on Bald Mountain"
- performer: "A Night on Bald Mountain"
- 2013
The Great Beauty
7.7
- performer: "Symphony in C Major: II. Adagio"
- 2013

Personal details

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Born
- April 18, 1882
- Marylebone, London, England, UK
Died
- September 13, 1977
- Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England, UK(heart attack)
Spouses
Other works
Print ads for Stromberg-Carlson's Custom Four Hundred High Fidelity equipment.
Publicity listings
- 2 Print Biographies
- 5 Portrayals

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Trivia
He was memorably satirized in the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Long-Haired Hare", when Bugs, wearing a white hairpiece, enters a concert auditorium through the orchestra pit and the players exclaim, one by one, "Leopold! Leopold! Leopold!" He is given a baton, which he promptly breaks (deliberately), and begins to conduct using Stokowski-like gestures.