Leslie Bricusse was a writer-composer-lyricist who contributed to many musical films and plays during his career. He was born in London and was educated at University College School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His stage musicals include Stop the World - I Want to Get Off; Pickwick; Harvey; The Good Old Bad Old Days; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Henry's Wives; Scrooge; One Shining Moment; Sherlock Holmes; Jekyll and Hyde, and Victor/Victoria. He wrote songs and/or screenplays for such films as Doctor Dolittle; Scrooge; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Superman; Victor/Victoria; Santa Claus - The Movie; Home Alone I & II; Hook; Tom & Jerry - The Movie, and various Pink Panthers. He was nominated for ten Academy Awards, nine Grammys and four Tonys, and won two Oscars, a Grammy, and eight Ivor Novello Awards, the premiere British Music Award.