Disney legend Richard M. Sherman, half of the Academy Award-winning songwriting team of the Sherman Brothers (with his late brother Robert B. Sherman), died May 25, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills. He was 95.

One of the most prolific composer-lyricists in the history of family entertainment, and a key member of Walt Disney’s inner circle of creative talents, Mr. Sherman garnered nine Academy Award nominations (winning two Oscars for his work on the 1964 classic “Mary Poppins”), won three Grammy Awards, and received 24 gold and platinum albums over the course of his 65-year career.