Hall Johnson
Actor · Original Music Composer
Active 1929–present · Awards: William E. Harmon Foundation award for distinguished achievement among Negroes, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
Francis Hall Johnson was an American composer and arranger of African-American spiritual music. He is one of a group—including Harry T. Burleigh, R.
Filmography
Dumbo (1941) — Deacon Crow (voice) (uncredited)The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) — Detective StoneCabin in the Sky (1943) — Original Music ComposerTales of Manhattan (1942) — Hall JohnsonSt. Louis Blues (1929) — Choir Leader (uncredited)My Old Kentucky Home (1938) — Leader, Hall Johnson ChoirThe Peanut Man (1947)Heart of the Golden West (1942) — Choir Leader