Edward H. Plumb

Edward Holcomb "Ed" Plumb was an American film composer and orchestrator, best known for his work at Walt Disney Studios. He served as musical director of Fantasia and orchestrated and co-composed the score for Bambi, and also expanded and orchestrated the film's main composer Frank Churchill's simple but menacing three-note man-theme, which may have been an influence for the shark-theme in Jaws.
Plumb was born in Streator, Illinois. His grandfather, Colonel Ralph Plumb founded the city of Streator in 1866. In the 1930s, Plumb moved to California and began work as a composer and orchestrator in the film industry. In addition to his work for Disney, Plumb frequently worked on titles for other studios, including Republic, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox. In 1953, he wrote the music for Tom and Jerry short called The Missing Mouse. He orchestrated and composed for several films, like Angels in the Outfield, Road to Rio, Valley of the Zombies, That's My Boy, The Painted Hills, Father Is a Bachelor, Variety Girl, and Quebec.
Back at Disney, Plumb orchestrated the music for Dumbo, Make Mine Music, Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart, Peter Pan, and Lady and the Tramp. He also orchestrated a number of television programs for Walt Disney Presents, the Davy Crockett films, and on Westward Ho, the Wagons!, starring Fess Parker. His final film project for Disney was Johnny Tremain in 1957. Plumb died on April 18, 1958.
He received Academy Award nominations for Bambi, Victory Through Air Power, Saludos Amigos, and The Three Caballeros.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1937 	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 	Composer - uncredited
1938 	Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 	Composer - uncredited
1940 	Pinocchio 	Composer - "Whale Chase" uncredited
1940 	Fantasia 	Musical Director - uncredited
1941 	Dumbo 	Orchestrator
1942 	Bambi 	Composer
1942 	Saludos Amigos 	Composer
1942 	South of the Border with Disney 	Composer - uncredited
1942 	Iceland 	Orchestrator - uncredited
1943 	The Grain That Built a Hemisphere 	Composer - uncredited
1943 	El Gaucho Goofy 	Composer
1943 	Victory Through Air Power 	Composer
1944 	The Three Caballeros 	Music DirectorComposer
1945 	Something You Didn't Eat 	Composer - uncredited
1945 	Donald's Crime 	Composer
1946 	Make Mine Music 	Associate Music DirectorOrchestrator - uncredited"Blue Bayou" musical director"Peter and the Wolf" Composer
1946 	Song of the South 	Orchestrator
1947 	Fun and Fancy Free 	Orchestrator - uncredited
1948 	So Dear to My Heart 	Orchestrator
1950 	Cinderella 	Orchestrator - uncredited
1951 	Alice in Wonderland 	Orchestrator - uncredited
1953 	How to Sleep 	Composer
1953 	The New Neighbor 	Composer
1953 	Peter Pan 	Orchestrator
1953 	The Living Desert 	Orchestrator
1954 	Donald's Diary 	Composer
1954-1964	The Wonderful World of Disney 	4 episodes: ComposerSpecial Orchestrator
1954 	The Vanishing Prairie 	Orchestrator
1955 	Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier	Orchestrator
1955 	Lady and the Tramp 	Orchestrator
1956 	Davy Crockett and the River Pirates 	Orchestrator
1956 	Secrets of Life 	Orchestrator
1956 	Westward Ho, the Wagons! 	Orchestrator
1957 	Johnny Tremain 	Orchestrator
==Gallery==
Dick Huemer Ed Plumb Clyde Geronimi 1955.jpg|Plumb with Dick Huemer (left) and Clyde Geronimi (right).
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