Biographies: Sterling Holloway - Actor

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An American actor, born in Cedartown, Georgia, USA. He won a Grammy Award in 1975 and a Winsor McCay Award in 1985. He is known for Alice in Wonderland (1951), Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), and The Jungle Book (1967). He joined the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York at the age of 15. He began his career in the 1920s with silent comedies. He acted and sang in Broadway theaters and at the Pasadena Playhouse. He was educated at the Georgia Military Academy and fought with the US forces in World War II in 1942. After the war ended, he worked in a number of films, and in 1945, he joined radio and television, performing recurring stereotypical characters that attracted a large audience of children. He never married but adopted a son. He died on November 12, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA, of a heart attack.

• 27 September 2021
• Christina Aziz