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Sterling Holloway
Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. (January 4, 1905 – November 22, 1992) was largely a character actor, appearing in 150 films and television shows, and a long-standing voice actor for the Walt Disney Studios.

Biography

Early life

Holloway was named after Confederate General Sterling "Pap" Price. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia in 1905, where his father Sterling Price Holloway Sr. was prominent and prosperous, owning a grocery store and serving as mayor in 1912. 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 1920s revues. With his light tenor voice, young Holloway made a foray into a professional singing. He introduced the Rodgers and Hart standard "I'll Take Manhattan" in 1925, and in the 1926 edition of Garrick Gaieties, he introduced their "Mountain Greenery" ("... where God paints the scenery").

Career

In 1926, the 5 foot 9 inch (1.77m), 124 lb Holloway moved to Hollywood to a movie career of almost 50 years. He worked with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Lon Chaney Jr, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, David Carradine. Though he was a busy movie character actor and an athletic dancer, he soon found his niche as a voice actor. Holloway served in World War II as a member of the Army's Special Services unit. He produced a show for servicemen and toured with it near the front lines in North Africa and Italy.

In 1941, he was heard in Dumbo, as the voice of "Mr. Stork." Walt Disney earlier wanted Holloway to play Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but storyman Pinto Colvig got the job. He was the voice of the adult "Flower" in Bambi, the narrator of the Antarctic penguin sequence in The Three Caballeros, the narrator in the Peter and the Wolf sequence of Make Mine Music. He voiced Kaa in The Jungle Book, Roquefort the mouse in The Aristocats, and the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland. His Disney Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes are well known. Disney honored him as an Disney legend in 1991. His last narrating credit was the Moonlighting episode Atomic Shakespeare. His last film credit was for the movie Thunder and Lightning. Holloway played the role of Hobe Carpenter, a friendly moonshiner who gets help from Harley Thomas (David Carradine).

Radio and recordings

As a radio actor, he was heard on such shows as The Railroad Hour, The United States Steel Hour, Suspense and Lux Radio Theater. With a distinctive voice, he narrated numerous children's records, such as Uncle Remus Stories (Decca), Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes (Disneyland Records) and Peter and the Wolf (RCA Victor).

Television

Sterling Holloway's career as a character actor, his memorably comic face, tousled sandy hair and squeaky voice, made the transition to television. He had a recurring role as Uncle Oscar, an eccentric inventor in the Adventures of Superman series, and had a recurring role on The Life of Riley. He guest starred in such TV shows as Circus Boy as a hot air balloonist, The Untouchables, Hazel, The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, The Andy Griffith Show, F-Troop, and Moonlighting (his final appearance on film, narrating a Shakespeare-themed episode).

Later years

Little is known about Holloway's personal life except that he adopted a son, Richard, who became a producer. He once admitted to being very stubborn. During his final years, he purchased a house in Los Angeles, where he amassed a major collection of contemporary art about which he sometimes lectured. Holloway was 87 when he died of cardiac arrest November 22, 1992 at a Los Angeles hospital. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. A street in Hollywood was named after Holloway in the 1980s.

Filmography

Feature-Length

Short subjects

Television episodes

  • The Adventures of Superman - The Machine That Could Plot Crimes (1952) also the same year in the Superman episode "The Whistling Bird" in which he plays the same eccentric scientist
  • The Life of Riley (1953-1958)
  • Willy 1955
  • Our Mr. Sun (1956) (voice)
  • Hemo the Magnificent (1957)
  • The Twilight Zone, episode "What's in the Box", as the TV repairman (1964)
  • The Restless Sea (1964)
  • The Baileys of Balboa (1964-1965)
  • That Girl (episode 14, "Phantom of the Horse Opera") (1966)
  • Tukiki and His Search for a Merry Christmas (1979) (voice)
  • Andy Griffith Show, as Bert, a traveling salesman (1962)
  • F-Troop, as the Sheriff, episode "Wilton the Kid" (1966)
  • Gilligan's Island (1967), as Birdy, a man with a fondness for birds.
  • Moonlighting - Atomic Shakespeare (1986) narrator

See also

  • Cedartown, Georgia
  • Winnie the Pooh

External links

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