Former Castaic ranch of Oscar-winning ‘Dumbo’ composer asks $5.8M

A 75-acre ranch in northern Los Angeles County once owned by Oscar-winning composer Frank Churchill, known for his scores for Walt Disney films, is on the market for $5.75 million.

Dubbed “Paradise Ranch,” the property in unincorporated Castaic has three dwellings, cavernous utility spaces and horse-training facilities. Records show the property last sold in 2014 for $2.2 million.

The main house originally surrounded a courtyard that has since been enclosed. Doors connect it to the rest of the four-bedroom, three-bathroom farmhouse with an eat-in kitchen, dining room, fireplace in the living room and sun porch.

A back porch overlooks the mountains beyond.

The original home dates to 1910 and needs a remodel. According to the marketing materials, a large trailer makes up the third dwelling but needs to be replaced.

A storage building big enough “to store ranch equipment and park your RV or boat,” as the listing reads, adds to the ranch that in the 1950s bred thoroughbreds. Today it boasts two barns, including one that has been renovated and can accommodate up to 10 horses.

There are 15 steel-framed corrals, grazing pastures and turnouts.

Two seasonal creeks run through the level terrain made of two parcels, the smaller of which has several year-round wells and is located across old Highway 98.

Megan Mathews of Sotheby’s International Realty holds the listing.

Paradise Ranch is marketed as “a rare investment opportunity for those seeking a quintessential California landscape” and income as a film production location. TV shows “Sons of Anarchy,” “Criminal Minds” and “1000 Ways to Die” have been shot here.

And let’s not forget a Disney legend once lived there.

Churchill contributed memorable music to Disney films of the 1930s and early ’40s, including “The Three Little Pigs” hit “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” classics “Whistle While You Work,” “Heigh-Ho” and “Some Day My Prince Will Come and “Dumbo” for which he shared the Oscar for Best Original Score.

Two months after that win in 1942, Churchill killed himself at the ranch after completing work on “Bambi,” according to the YouTub Channel Dizographies. He was 40.