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- Birth nameWilliam Lorenzo Bunt
- Composer, conductor and arranger, educated at the University of Wisconsin, majoring in music and economics. Throughout college, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and directed his own orchestra. After graduation he joined CBS in Chicago, where he was staff arranger for WBBM. He has arranged for the orchestras of Benny Goodman, Paul Whiteman, Harry James, and Les Brown, and also for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Eddie Fisher, Martha Tilton, Mel Torme, and Margaret Whiting, plus others. He directed the Victor Borge radio shows and the NBC All Star Summer Revue television show, and he co-produced Mel Torme's radio show. He has made many records.
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- SpouseLila Louise Fisher Elliott(January 30, 1949 - December 18, 1962) (her death)
- His jazzy score when it came to Chuck Jones' Tom and Jerry shorts
- Worked with Chuck Jones first on Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1966 to 1967, the feature film The Phantom Tollbooth in 1970, as well as later TV specials and short films into the 1980s.
- First worked on some feature films in the early 1960s before striking an alliance with master animation director Chuck Jones.
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