Sam Edwards

Sam Edwards was an American actor, whose Disney roles included adult Thumper in Bambi as well as minor roles in the films The Absent-Minded Professor, Scandalous John, Hog Wild, and Escape to Witch Mountain. He also voiced Tigger and Owl in the Winnie the Pooh record releases and Ollie the Owl in America Sings.
Born into a show business family, he appeared on radio in the 1930s in The Adventures of Sonny and Buddy one of the first radio serials ever syndicated, and later in The Edwards Family and One Man's Family. During World War II, he served as part of the morale-building entertainment corps, spending much of the time in the African, European, and India/Burma theater and traveling for a time with Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton's regiments.
Edward s most famous role on television was as banker Bill Anderson on Little House on the Prairie, but he also appeared in shows, like Jonny Quest, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, Mission: Impossible, Adam-12, The Red Skelton Show, Happy Days, The Dukes of Hazzard, Days of Our Lives, and The Virginian.
He also appeared in films, such as Captain Midnight, Twelve O'Clock High, The Beatniks, Hello Dolly, Operation Pacific, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Gangbusters, and Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came.
==Roles==
Bambi-thumper-adult.jpg|Adult Thumper(Bambi)
Tigger.png|Tigger(record releases)
Owl.gif|Owl(record releases)
Ollie Owl.jpg|Ollie the Owl(America Sings)
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