John Leonard Morris (1926-2018) *91

John Leonard Morris was an American film, television and broadway composer, dance arranger, conductor, and trained concert pianist. He collaborated with filmmakers Mel Brrooks and Gene Wilder. John Morris was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on October 18, 1926, to Thomas Morris, an engineer who designed revolving doors for Tiffany & Co. flagship store in Fifth Avenue and Helen Sherratt, a homemaker. He became interested in music as early as three years old when he started learning to play the piano and visiting friends in The Bronx with his parents. His family moved to Independence, Kansas while he was young, and continued studying piano. By the late 1940s, he moved back to New York City, where he studied at both Juilliard School and at The New School for Social Research.

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