Carl Stalling

Carl W. Stalling was a composer, voice artist, and music arranger in animated films. On November 10, 1891, he was born in Lexington, Missouri, US. He was birthed to German parents Ernest and Sophia C. Stalling, who moved to the United States in 1883. His father worked as a carpenter. Carl was very interested in music art, right from a young age. At the age of six, he learned piano for the first time. When Carl turned 12, he was already a principal piano accompanist in his hometown’s silent movie house. In his early 20s, he worked on his orchestra and played the organ at the Movie Theatre in Kansas City. His main work during that time was to play the organ for silent films. He and young Walt Disney Walt Disney or Walter Elias Disney was an American >> Read More... met in Kansas City, where Disney was already producing animated short films. Once, when Disney came to the musical theatre, they got impressed with Stalling’s musical creation.

Soon after, Stalling and Disney started working together, he composed numerous cartoon music for Walt Disney, like Plane Crazy and The Gallopin’Gaucho. Disney was super impressed with Stalling's work. So, they offered him to be their Music Director. He has also done a voice-over for the Mickey Mouse character in The Karnival Kid in 1929. Stalling worked with Disney for two years, and after completing around 20 animated films, he left them. In 1936, Stalling and Iwerks got hired by Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros.

Stalling was already famous as a talented music creator and composer at that period. From 1936, Stalling produced sounds forevery other animated film launched by Warner Bros. Cartoons. Stalling worked for almost 22 years with Warner Bros and composed music scores for around 600 animated films. In 1958, Stalling got retired after composing his career's last animated film, To Itch His Own. Chuck Jones   Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912, Spokane, Washi >> Read More... directed the animated film. He took his last breath on 29 November 1972, in Los Angeles, California, United States, 19 days after he became 81.