Biography

Born Hazel Gilman in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1904, Hazel George moved to Los Angeles in 1929, and after completing nursing school, was hired by the Walt Disney Studio. Walt Disney received a fairly serious neck injury in a polo game in 1938 and she helped nurse him back to health. Disney then made her his personal nurse, and she soon became his confidante. When Disney launched The Mickey Mouse Club (1955), he hired Hazel to help write songs for the show. Under the name "Gil George", she wrote or co-wrote more than 90 songs for the series, in addition to penning songs for such Disney films as The Light in the Forest (1958), Tonka (1958) and Old Yeller (1957).

In the early 1960s she began to devote less time to songwriting and more time to the care of Walt Disney himself, whose health was beginning to decline. She was apparently the one who got him interested in cryogenics.

She died in Burbank, California, on March 12, 1996.
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A nurse at Walt Disney Studios who was also a personal friend of Walt Disney and wrote some music for him using the pseudonym Gil George.

As Walt Disney's personal nurse, she was likely closer to him than anybody employed at the studio.

She composed Sergeant Garcia's theme music for the television production of Zorro (1957).

[Walt Disney] wasn't a man. He was a force of nature.