Edward H. Plumb

Edward Holcomb Plumb (June 6, 1907, Streator, Illinois – April 18, 1958, Los Angeles, California) (also credited as Edward Plumb and Ed Plumb) was a film composer best known for his work at Walt Disney Studios. He served as a music arranger for "Fantasia" and orchestrated and co-composed the score for "Bambi", and orchestrated and expanded the film's main composer Frank Churchill's menacing but simple three-note man-theme, which may have been an influence for the shark-theme in "Jaws".
Ed 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.
On Bambi, Frank Churchill had written a rough draft for the film's score, but Disney realized that Churchill's facilities in music were not skilled but rather incompetent. In fact, animators at the studio recalled seeing Churchill sleep during story conferences on Bambi. Edward Plumb was a highly seriously trained musician and was called in to work on rest of the Bambi score in October 1940, while a great deal of Churchill's background themes, songs and leitmotifs were still kept in the final film but with Plumb orchestrating and expanding them and even composing the more dramatic and complex musical sequences.
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". Back at Disney, Plumb orchestrated the music for the Whale Chase sequence in "Pinocchio", "Dumbo", "Make Mine Music", "Song of the South", Beanero in "Fun and Fancy Free", "So Dear to My Heart", "Peter Pan", and "Lady and the Tramp". He also orchestrated a number of television programs for "Walt Disney Presents", a number of "Davy Crockett" films and on "Westward Ho, the Wagons!", starring Fess Parker. His final film project was "Johnny Tremain" for Disney in 1957.
Plumb died from long-term effects of alcohol consumption on April 18, 1958.
He received Academy Award nominations for "Bambi", "Victory Through Air Power", "Saludos Amigos" and "The Three Caballeros".