Walker Edmiston

Walker Edmiston was an American character actor and voice actor, who voiced Ludwig Von Drake for Disney, he was succeeded by Corey Burton shortly afterwards. His other Disney roles included Sir Thornberry in Adventures of the Gummi Bears, a citizen and a thug guard in The Great Mouse Detective, a radio announcer in Dick Tracy, and additional voices in the 1988 Disney TV movie Goodbye, Miss 4th of July, the Disney dub of Whisper of the Heart, and Dumbo's Circus.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Edmiston participated in local theater productions during his high school years. He later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse. Before working on network programs, Edmiston had puppet shows on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. His voice was heard on the puppet programs: The Buffalo Billy Show and Time for Beany and Pandemonium.
He also appeared on television shows, like Star Trek, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Knots Landing, Adam-12, The Rounders, The Dukes of Hazzard, Land of the Lost, and Barnaby Jones.
Edmiston also did many television commercials and cartoon character voices, such as "Ernie the Keebler Elf" in hundreds of commercials for the cookie products of the Keebler Company, and voices for characters on H.R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos from the studio of Sid and Marty Krofft, Dishonest John in Beany and Cecil, and Inferno in the original Transformers.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, he hosted The Walker Edmiston Show, a children's television program in Los Angeles, California. The program featured puppets of his own creation, including Kingsley the Lion, Ravenswood the Buzzard, and Webster Webfoot.
He died 9 days after his 81st birthday.
==Roles==
Char 87348 thumb.jpg|Thug 1(The Great Mouse Detective)
Great-mouse-detective-disneyscreencaps.com-7182.jpg|Citizen(The Great Mouse Detective)
Dc015.jpg|Sebastian(Dumbo's Circus)
Sir Thornberry.jpg|Sir Thornberry(Adventures of the Gummi Bears)
Willie the Giant.jpg|Willie the Giant(An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players)
Goofy transparent.png|Goofy(An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players)
Ludwig Promo Art 2.png|Ludwig Von Drake(briefly)
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