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name: "Hall Johnson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hall-johnson"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 March 1888"
died: "30 April 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:57:45.103818+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Hall Johnson

Actor. Born 12 March 1888 in Athens. Died 30 April 1970.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 March 1888, Athens
- **Died:** 30 April 1970
- **Also known as:** Hall Johnson Choir
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3126025, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425195/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1513985

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Dumbo*](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md) (87)

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## Biography

Hall Johnson (1888–1970) was an American composer, arranger and choral director, best known for his work preserving and performing African-American spirituals. He formed the Hall Johnson Choir in 1925, which gained prominence through its performances in the 1930 Broadway production of *The Green Pastures* and subsequent tours and adaptations.

Johnson arranged and conducted choral music for more than thirty feature films. His choir contributed to the soundtracks of *Lost Horizon* (1937), *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937) and *Dumbo* (1941), in which Johnson voiced Deacon Crow (uncredited). He also appeared in films such as *My Old Kentucky Home* (1938) and *Heart of the Golden West* (1942).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, georgiaencyclopedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dumbo* (1941), Fi1m 87, as Deacon Crow (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md)

## Also known for

- *The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1985), Detective Stone

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