1. John Fiedler's career lasted more than 55 years in stage, film, television and radio.
16 Facts About John Fiedler
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John Fiedler was typecast beginning early in his career for delicate, quiet, nerdy characters, although he played sneaky villains.
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John Fiedler's roles include the meek Juror No 2 in 12 Angry Men ; the seemingly benign gentleman who tries to prevent the Younger family from moving into a whites-only neighbourhood in A Raisin in the Sun ; the voice of Piglet in Disney's Winnie the Pooh productions; Vinnie, one of Oscar's poker cronies, in the film The Odd Couple ; and Emil Peterson, the hen-pecked milquetoast husband on The Bob Newhart Show.
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John Fiedler's family moved to Shorewood, Wisconsin, when he was 5, where he graduated from Shorewood High School in 1943.
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John Fiedler enlisted in the United States Navy and served until the end of World War II.
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John Fiedler appeared as Homer Brown on the radio comedy The Aldrich Family, as Cadet Alfie Higgins on the 1950s TV show Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, and, in his 1957 film debut, as Juror No 2 in 12 Angry Men.
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John Fiedler was in the original cast of the Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun as housing committee representative Lindner, a role he reprised in both the 1961 film version and the 1989 TV version.
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John Fiedler appears in the film The Odd Couple as poker player Vinnie; he appears on the TV series adaptation of The Odd Couple, at the invitation of his friend Jack Klugman, as the manager of a hyper-security building into which Felix and Oscar temporarily move, and as the cruel owner of a movie-star dog.
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John Fiedler appears in the films Harper Valley PTA and The Cannonball Run.
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John Fiedler appears three times in a recurring role on Kolchak: The Night Stalker as morgue attendant Gordy "The Ghoul" Spangler.
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John Fiedler plays Mr Peterson, one of Bob's regular patients, on The Bob Newhart Show, and Mr Dundee in an episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Night of the Meek".
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John Fiedler's voice is heard in the Disney features Robin Hood, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound and The Emperor's New Groove, and in Disneyland Records's Winnie the Pooh for President.
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John Fiedler was the narrator of several McDonaldland commercials during the 1980s.
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John Fiedler died of cancer on June 25,2005, at age 80, in Englewood, New Jersey, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home, a residence for retired entertainers sponsored by the Actors' Fund of America.
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John Fiedler was cremated and his ashes were scattered on Long Island, New York.
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John Fiedler died a day after Paul Winchell, Tigger's original voice actor.