Sterling holloway died
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During his nearly 40-year association with The Walt Disney Studios, actor Sterling Holloway supplied narration and character voice-overs for more than twenty Disney animated shorts, features, and television specials. Yet it was his irresistibly childlike portrayal of Disney’s “silly old bear,” Winnie the Pooh, for which he is most remembered.
Director of Disney Character Voices Rick Dempsey once described the actor’s one-of-a-kind vocal quality: “Sterling just had a unique voice—a high-tenor, raspy voice unlike anything you ever heard. He was the first spoken teddy bear.”
Born January 14, 1905, in Cedartown, Georgia, Sterling was educated at Georgia Military Academy. At 15, he enrolled in New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts and, upon graduation, appeared in musical revues, vaudeville, and on the radio. He then moved to Hollywood, where he launched his film career, appearing in such silent movies as Casey at the Bat with Wallace Beery. When the advent of talking pictures left many featured players without work, Sterling&r
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Sterling Holloway
Sterling Price Holloway Jr. (January 4, 1905 – November 22, 1992) was an actor from Georgia who appeared in over 100 films and 40 television shows. He was also a voice actor for The Walt Disney Company, well known for his distinctive tenor voice and is perhaps best remembered as the original voice of Winnie the Pooh in the Winnie the Pooh franchise and as Mr. Stork in Dumbo, Adult Flower in Bambi, the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, Kaa in The Jungle Book, and Roquefort in The Aristocats.
Filmography
[change | change source]Feature films
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[change | change source]- The Adventures of Superman - The Machine That Could Plot Crimes (1952-54; 3 episodes)
- The Life of Riley (1953–58) - as Waldo Binny
- The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet - episode "Pancake Mix" as the grocery man
- Willy (1955)
- Our Mr. Sun (1956; voice role only)
- Hemo the Magnificent (1957)
- The Real McCoys - episode "The Jinx" (1960), as Orval McCoy
- Zane Grey Theatre - episode "B
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Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. (January 4, 1905 - November 22, 1992) was a perennial voice actor for the Walt Disney Studios, who began with a cameo role in Dumbo and later became a Disney legend as the voice of Winnie the Pooh.
Holloway was named after Confederate General Sterling "Pap" Price. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia in 1905. After attending the Georgia Military Academy in College Park, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Holloway made his way through the Theater Guild to appear in the first joint venture of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Garrick Gaieties, a series of revues in the 1920s. With his light tenor voice, young Holloway made a foray into a professional singing career. He introduced the Rodgers and Hart standard "I'll Take Manhattan" in 1925, and in the 1926 edition of Garrick Gaities where he introduced their "Mountain Greenery" ("…where God paints the scenery").
In 1926, Holloway moved to Hollywood to begin a movie career that was to last for almost fifty years. Though he was o
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