20 Facts About Sterling Holloway

Sterling Holloway did voice acting for The Walt Disney Company, playing Mr Stork in Dumbo, Adult Flower in Bambi, the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, Kaa in The Jungle Book, Roquefort the Mouse in The Aristocats, and the title character in Winnie the Pooh, among many others.

Sterling Holloway moved to Hollywood in 1926 to begin a film career that lasted almost 50 years.

In 1942, during World War II, Sterling Holloway enlisted in the United States Army at the age of 37 and was assigned to the Special Services.

Sterling Holloway helped develop a show called "Hey Rookie", which ran for nine months and raised $350,000 for the Army Relief Fund.

In 1945, Sterling Holloway played the role of a medic assigned to an infantry platoon in the critically acclaimed film A Walk in the Sun.

Sterling Holloway was the voice of the adult Flower in Bambi, the narrator of the Antarctic penguin sequence in The Three Caballeros and the narrator in the Peter and the Wolf sequence of Make Mine Music.

Sterling Holloway was the voice of the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland ; the narrator in The Little House, Susie the Little Blue Coupe, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, and Goliath II ; Kaa the snake in The Jungle Book ; and Roquefort the mouse in The Aristocats.

Sterling Holloway is perhaps best remembered as the voice of Winnie the Pooh in Disney's Winnie the Pooh featurettes through 1977.

Sterling Holloway was honored as a Disney Legend in 1991, the first person to receive the award in the voice category.

Sterling Holloway acted on many radio programs, including The Railroad Hour, The United States Steel Hour, Suspense, Lux Radio Theater, and The Shadow.

Sterling Holloway's voice retained a touch of its Southern drawl and was instantly recognizable.

Sterling Holloway was chosen to narrate many children's records, including Uncle Remus Stories, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, Walt Disney Presents Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Peter And The Wolf.

Sterling Holloway appeared on the Adventures of Superman as "Uncle Oscar", an eccentric inventor, and played a recurring role on The Life of Riley.

Sterling Holloway guest-starred on Fred Waring's CBS television program in the 1950s and appeared on Circus Boy as a hot air balloonist.

Sterling Holloway auditioned for the well-known comic book character Garfield in 1982, but lost to Lorenzo Music.

Sterling Holloway provided voice-over work for the 1984 commercial of Libby's baked beans.

Sterling Holloway was a lifelong Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1956 United States presidential election.

Sterling Holloway once said this was because he felt lacking in nothing and did not wish to disturb his pattern of life.

Sterling Holloway was given the chance to return to the role for The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh but, at 83 years old, could no longer perform the voice as he had in the past; Jim Cummings took over the role as well as most of Sterling Holloway's other voice roles, including Kaa in Jungle Cubs and The Jungle Book 2.

Sterling Holloway died of a cardiac arrest at the Good Samaritan Hospital in the morning on November 22,1992, at the age of 87.