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name: "W. F. Smith Leithart"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/w-f-smith-leithart"
fi1m_id: "w-f-smith-leithart"
tmdb_id: 6179786
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:17:10.814530+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."
---

# W. F. Smith Leithart

## Identity

W. F. Smith Leithart

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/w-f-smith-leithart
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** w-f-smith-leithart
- **TMDB ID:** 6179786
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6179786

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6179786

## Biography

W. F. Smith Leithart is a composer working in film, television and video games. He studied at Samford University in Alabama, where he composed music for planetarium shows and concert works, and began scoring short films and independent features.

His credits as composer include the short films *Unorthodox* (2018), *Diminished* (2022) and *Star Spangled Galaxy* (2023), and the features *Dinner to Die For* (2025) and *The Girl in the River* (2026), the latter co-composed with Max Aruj. He has also contributed additional music and arrangements to larger productions including *Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning* (2025) and the series *Man on Fire* (2026).

*Sources: imdb.com, filmmusicreporter.com, open.spotify.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Girl in the River* (2026), Fi1m 31, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-girl-in-the-river.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Girl in the River* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 31, [page](https://film.one/film/the-girl-in-the-river.md)
- *The White Ibis* (2026), Music Score Producer
- *Dinner to Die For* (2025), Original Music Composer

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