Leopold Stokowski
April 18, 1882 (142 years old) in London, England, UK
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was an English conductor of Jewish-Polish and Irish descent. One of the leading and influential conductors of the early and mid-20th Century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and for appearing in the film Fantasia. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed.
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- 2017 · Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Musician (archive footage)
- 1993 · The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past as Self
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1957 · Tricks of Our Trade as
- 1955 · The Story of the Animated Drawing as Self (archive footage)
- 1947 · Carnegie Hall as Leopold Stokowski
- 1942 · Clair de Lune as Himself
- 1940 · Fantasia as Self - Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra
- 1937 · One Hundred Men and a Girl as Leopold Stokowski
- 1936 · The Big Broadcast of 1937 as Leopold Stokowski