Academy Award-winning Jewish American songwriter Richard M. Sherman, one of the creative geniuses behind some of Walt Disney's most iconic and timeless songs, died on Saturday at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills "due to age-related illness," the Walt Disney Company announced. He was 95 years old. The Walt Disney Company described Sherman as
Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who penned songs for "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book," died Saturday at 95.