Edward Holcomb Plumb (June 6, 1907, Streator, Illinois – April 18, 1958, Los Angeles, California) was a 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 orchestrated and expanded the film's main composer Frank Churchill's menacing but simple three-note theme.

Life and career

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 MGM's Tom and Jerry short called The Missing Mouse because Scott Bradley was on vacation.[1] Back at Disney, Plumb orchestrated the music for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), the Whale Chase sequence in Pinocchio,[2] Dumbo, Make Mine Music, Song of the South, Beanero in Fun and Fancy Free,[3] So Dear to My Heart, some subsidiary cues for Cinderella, 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 was 50.[4][5]

He received Oscar nominations for Bambi, Victory Through Air Power, Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros.[6]

In the Tom and Jerry cartoon "The Missing Mouse" he is credited as "Edward Plumb" without the H. initial.

Disney credits

Works outside of the Disney Studio

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Happy Harmonies and Disturbing Discords: Scott Bradley’s Music for MGM’s Cartoons, Helen Alexander (pp. 145)
  2. ↑ Bohn, p.79
  3. ↑ Tietyan, p.80
  4. ↑ Campana, Joe (2007-06-06). "Animation - Who & Where: Century Birthday - Edward Plumb". Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  5. ↑ Bohn
  6. ↑ "Ed Plumb - IMDB". IMDb.

The library of Congress

Film Composers in America 1911 - 1970 by Clifford McCarthy

Bibliography

  • Bohn, James Matthew (2018). Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-1218-6. OCLC 1102733615.
  • Care, Ross B. (January 1983) "Threads of Care: The Evolution of a Major Film Score - Walt Disney's Bambi," The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress v. 40, n. 2, p. 100
  • Tietyan, Dave (1990) The Musical World of Walt Disney. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 9780810936041


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