Jim Cummings

James Jonah "Jim" Cummings is a veteran American voice actor and singer, who has appeared in nearly four hundred roles. He is known for his ability to emulate Sterling Holloway's soft, timid Pooh voice, Paul Winchell's crazy-like Tigger laugh, as well as for giving a certain gruff-sounding voice to several other characters, such as Pete. He also narrated the Aladdin read-along storybook.
==Background==
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Cummings moved to New Orleans when he was young. It was there that he worked on floats and as a door-to-door salesman. He then moved to California, where he worked odd jobs before he became a voice actor.
He has voiced many characters in several Disney productions, most notably Darkwing Duck, Negaduck, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Pete, Ray, Bonkers D. Bobcat, Kaa, Ed, Big Bad Wolf, among others. He also provided the opening narration for the Phineas and Ferb special "Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars".
==Roles==
==Gallery==
Jim Cummings behind the scenes of TLK.jpg|Jim Cummings behind the scenes of The Lion King.
Jim Cummings with his Disney Afternoon characters.jpg|Jim Cummings with his animated family of Disney characters.
Cummings at Piglet's Big Movie.png|Jim Cummings attending the premiere of Piglet's Big Movie in March 2003.
Mr Cummings being talked about Princess and Frog.png|Jim Cummings being interviewed for The Princess and the Frog.
Jim Cummings & family at PatF premeire.jpg|Jim Cummings with his ex-wife, Stephanie, and their daughters, Lulu and Grace, at The Princess and the Frog premiere in November 2009.
JIM-CUMMINGS.jpg|Jim Cummings behind the scenes of Winnie the Pooh.
Tom and Jim being interviewed.png|Jim Cummings with his co-star Tom Kenny during an interview for Winnie the Pooh.
Jim Cummings and Tom Kenny at Winnie the Pooh 2011.jpg|Jim Cummings and Tom Kenny at the premiere of Winnie the Pooh in July 2011.
Jim Cummings 40th Annies.jpg|Jim Cummings attending the 40th annual Annie Awards in February 2013.
Jim Cummings January 2015.jpg|Jim Cummings speaks at the Magic City Comic Con in Birmingham, Alabama in January 2015.
Jim Cummings CR premiere.jpg|Jim Cummings attending the premiere of Christopher Robin in July 2018.
==Trivia==
*He is not to be confused with fellow voice actor Brian Cummings.
*Cummings' favorite Disney character voice roles are Pete (his main favorite voice role), Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Darkwing Duck, Ray, and Hondo Ohnaka.
*He was a fan of Davy Crockett growing up and still has his coonskin cap.
*Outside of Disney, Cummings is also well-known for voicing antagonistic characters, including General Parvo in the animated series , Skrawl in the animated series , Dr. Robotnik in the SatAM version of , and Steele in the 1995 Universal Pictures animated film .
*Jim Cummings had been paired up with fellow actor Tom Kenny in several shows, such as and . Thus, they were reunited in a way when Cummings voiced Pooh and Tigger and Kenny voiced Rabbit in the 2011 Winnie the Pooh film.
*Cummings and Brad Garrett both reprised their roles as Pooh and Tigger (Cummings) along with Eeyore (Garrett) in the 2018 live-action film Christopher Robin. This makes them the first two voice actors to reprise their respective voice roles in a live-action film.
*Along with voice acting, Jim also currently runs a YouTube channel called "Toon'd in with Jim Cummings", where he, along with his producer Chris, interviews voice actors not just from Disney but from other companies too.
*Along with this, on his 72nd birthday, Jim received the YouTube silver play button award for passing 100K subscribers on his channel.
==References==
==External links==
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