It’s been thirty-two years since actor/voiceover artist Sterling Holloway died of a heart attack in 1992 in Los Angeles. Best known for early acting appearances in movies like Remember the Night, Holloway eventually became famous for his voice in animated in Walt Disney animated classics like The Jungle Book, and later as the voice of Winnie the Pooh in Disney featurettes. But in between it all, a gun once exploded in his hand while working with Will Rogers. Here’s a brief look at that and his entire life and career.
A Closer Look
Born in January of 1905, in Cedartown, Georgia, Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. The future legend attended the Georgia Military Academy and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, graduating in 1923. After appearing in minor productions around the country, Holloway was cast in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s first Broadway musical, The Garrick Gaieties (1925), in which he introduced the now standard song “Manhattan.” In the second edition of the show in 1926, he sang the hit song “Mountain Greenery.”