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_.

### Feature films

- _Casey at the Bat_ (1927)
- _American Madness_ (1932)
- _Blonde Venus_ (1932)
- _Faithless_ (1932)
- _Rockabye_ (1932)
- _Lawyer Man_ (1932)
- _Hard to Handle_ (1933)
- _Blondie Johnson_ (1933)
- _Fast Workers_ (1933)
- _Wild Boys of the Road_ (1933)
- _Hell Below_ (1933)
- _Elmer, the Great_ (1933)
- _Picture Snatcher_ (1933)
- _Adorable_ (1933)
- _International House_ (1933)
- _Gold Diggers of 1933_ (1933)
- _Professional Sweetheart_ (1933)
- _When Ladies Meet_ (1933)
- _Wild Boys of The Road_ (1933)
- _Dancing Lady_ (1933)
- _Advice To The Lovelorn_ (1933)
- _Going Hollywood_ (1933)
- _Alice in Wonderland_ (1933)
- _Tomorrow's Children_ (1934)
- _The Cat & The Fiddle_ (1934)
- _Strictly Dynamite_ (1934)
- _Operator 13_ (1934)
- _Murder In The Private Car_ (1934)
- _The Back Page_ (1934)
- _Down to Their Last Yacht_ (1934)
- _Gift of Gab_ (1934)
- _The Merry Widow_ (1934)
- _Girl o' My Dreams_ (1934)
- _A Wicked Woman_ (1934)
- _Tomorrow's Youth_ (1935)
- _Lottery Lover_ (1935)
- _Life Begins At Forty_ (1935)
- _Doubting Thomas_ (1935)
- _I Live My Life_ (1935)
- _1,000 Dollars A Minute_ (1935)
- _Rendezvous_ (1935)
- _Palm Springs_ (1936)
- _Career Woman_ (1936)
- _Join the Marines_ (1937)
- _Maid of Salem_ (1937)
- _When Love Is Young_ (1937)
- _The Woman I Love_ (1937)
- _Varsity Show_ (1937)
- _Behind The Mike_ (1937)
- _Of Human Hearts_ (1938)
- _Dr. Rhythm_ (1938)
- _Held Hor Ransom_ (1938)
- _Professor Beware_ (1938)
- _Spring Madness_ (1938)
- _St. Louis Blues_ (1939)
- _Nick Carter, Master Detective_ (1939)
- _Remember the Night_ (1940)
- _The Blue Bird_ (1940)
- _Hit Parade of 1941_ (1940)
- _Street of Memories_ (1940)
- _Little Men_ (1940)
- _Cheers for Miss Bishop_ (1941)
- _Meet John Doe_ (1941)
- _The Great Awakening_ (1941)
- _Top Sergeant Mulligan_ (1941)
- _Dumbo_ (1941) Mr. Stork (voice)
- _Look Who's Laughing_ (1941)
- _Don't Get Personal_ (1942)
- _The Lady Is Willing_ (1942)
- _Bambi_ (1942) Adult Flower (voice)
- _Iceland_ (1942)
- _Here We Go Again_ (1942)
- _Star Spangled Rhythm_ (1942)
- _The Three Caballeros_ (1944) (voice)
- _Wildfire_ (1945)
- _A Walk in the Sun_ (1945)
- _Make Mine Music_ (1946; voice role)
- _Death Valley_ (1946)
- _Sioux City Sue_ (1946)
- _Her Wonderful Lie_ (1947)
- _Trail to San Antone_ (1947)
- _Twilight on the Rio Grande_ (1947)
- _Saddle Pals_ (1947)
- _Fun and Fancy Free_ (1947; narrator from "Mickey and the Beanstalk")
- _Robin Hood of Texas_
- _The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend_ (1949)
- _Alice in Wonderland_ (1951; voice role as "The Cheshire Cat")
- _Kentucky Rifle_ (1956)
- _Alakazam the Great_ (1960) (voice)
- _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ (1960)
- _My Six Loves_ (1963)
- _It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_ (1963; cameo)
- _Batman_ (1966; scenes deleted)
- _The Jungle Book_ (1967; voice role as "Kaa")
- _Live a Little, Love a Little_ (1968)
- _The Aristocats_ (1970; voice role as "Roquefort the Mouse")
- _Cries_ (1975) (documentary; narrator)
- _Super Seal_ (1976)
- _Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood_ (1976)
- _The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh_ (1977; voice role as  Winnie the Pooh)
- _Thunder & Lightning_ (1977)

### Short subjects

- _The Battling Kangaroo_ (1926)
- _The Girl from Everywhere_ (1927)
- _The Girl from Nowhere_ (1928)
- _One Track Minds_ (1933)
- _Not the Marrying Kind_ (1933)
- _Meeting Mazie_ (1933)
- _Born April First_ (1934)
- _Pleasing Grandpa_ (1934)
- _Picnic Perils_ (1934)
- _Sterling's Rival Romeo_ (1934)
- _Father Knows Best_ (1935)
- _My Girl Sally_ (1935)
- _Bring 'Em Back A Lie_ (1935)
- _Boy Meets Dog_ (1938) (voice)
- _The Pelican & The Snipe_ (1944) (voice)
- _The Cold-Blooded Penguin_ (1944) (voice)
- _Unusual Occupations L-5-2_ (1945)
- _Peter & The Wolf_ (1946) (voice)
- _Moron Than Off_ (1946)
- _Scooper Dooper_ (1947)
- _Hectic Honeymoon_ (1947)
- _Speaking of Animals No. Y7-1: Dog Crazy_ (1947)
- _Mickey and the Beanstalk_ (1947) (Narrator)
- _Man or Mouse_ (1948)
- _Flat Feat_ (1948)
- _Lambert the Sheepish Lion_ (1952) (voice)
- _Susie the Little Blue Coupe_ (1952) (voice)
- _The Little House_ (1952) (voice)
- _Ben and Me_ (1953) (voice)
- _Goliath II_ (1960) (voice)
- _Man, Monsters & Mysteries_ (1973) (voice)
- _Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree_ (1966) (voice)
- _Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day_ (1968) (voice)
- _Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!_ (1974) (voice)

### Television

- _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 "Blood Red" (1961), as Luther
- _The Andy Griffith Show_ - episode "The Merchant of Mayberry", as Bert, a traveling salesman (1962)
- _Hazel (TV series)_ - "The Retiring Milkman" Season 3, Episode 13, as Claude the Milkman (1963)
- _The Twilight Zone_ - episode "What's in the Box", as the dæmonic television repairman (1964)
- _The Restless Sea_ (1964)
- _Burke's Law_ (episode 28, "Who Killed Annie Foran?"; 1964)
- _The Baileys of Balboa_ (1964–65)
- _That Girl_ (episode 14, "Phantom of the Horse Opera"; 1966)
- _F-Troop_ - as the Sheriff in the episode "Wilton the Kid" (1966)
- _Gilligan's Island_ (1967) - as Burt, a prisoner with a homing pigeon
- _Tony the Pony_ - as GG the Wizard (1976)
- _Tukiki and His Search for a Merry Christmas_ (1979; voice)
- _Moonlighting_ - episode "Atomic Shakespeare" (1986; narrator)

## Sources

- Rothel, David. 1984. _Those Great Cowboy Sidekicks_. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey;

## Other websites

- Disney Legends
- _New Georgia Encyclopedia_: Sterling Holloway
- "A Perfect Day" by Carrie Jacobs-Bond sung by Sterling Holloway:

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Sterling Holloway
- **image**: Andy Griffith Sterling Holloway Andy Griffith Show 1962.JPG
- **caption**: Andy Griffith and Holloway in 1962
- **birth name**: Sterling Price Holloway, Jr.
- **birth place**: Cedartown, Georgia, U.S.
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **death cause**: Cardiac arrest
- **yearsactive**: 1926–1986
- **occupation**: Actor, voice actor
- **notable works**: Original voice of Winnie the Pooh
- **children**: Richard Holloway (adopted)
- **resting place**: Cremation, Cremated; ashes buried in Pacific Ocean