Biography
Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. was an American character actor who appeared in 150 films and television programs. He was also a voice actor for The Walt Disney Company. He was well-known for his distinctive tenor voice, and is perhaps best remembered as the voice of Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh.
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Complete Filmography

Once Upon a Studio
2023
as Cheshire Cat / Kaa / Winnie the Pooh (voice) (archive footage)
Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
2004
as Narrator / Mr. Stork (voice) (archive sound)
Six more animated stories from the Disney studios. 'Three Blind Mousketeers' follows the misadventures of the outrageous trio. In 'Three Little Pigs',...

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
2004
as Narrator (Mickey and the Beanstalk) (voice) (archive sound)
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a doci...

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
2003
as Amos Mouse (segment "Ben and Me") (archive sound)
Three classic stories from the Disney team. 'Donald in Mathmagicland' is an award-winning short film, featuring everyone's favourite duck. 'Ben and Me...

Disney’s Sing-Along Songs: Let's Go To Disneyland Paris!
1997
as (voice)
Songs are for sharing, and learning the words to your favourite Disney songs has never been so much fun! Just sing along to the on-screen lyrics as yo...
Disney’s Coyote Tales
1991
as Narrator / Mr. Stork (voice)
Through redubbed footage of The Coyote's Lament, the coyote's relationship with man and dog is shown from the coyote's point of view, as seen in vario...

Tukiki and His Search for a Merry Christmas
1979
as Northwind (voice)
Tukiki is a small Eskimo boy who sets out to discover the meaning of Christmas along with a magical character known as North Wind. He visits different...

Mickey's 50
1978
as Self
"Mickey's 50" is a 90-minute special that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on November 19, 1978. The special was made to commemorate the 50th bi...

Thunder and Lightning
1977
as Hobe Carpenter
A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation...

Disney's Greatest Villains
1977
as Kaa (voice) (archive footage)
The Slave in the Magic Mirror is the host of this show, designed to explain that all heroes need villains to balance things out. Without villains, the...

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1977
as Winnie the Pooh (voice)
Whether we’re young or forever young at heart, the Hundred Acre Wood calls to that place in each of us that still believes in magic. Join pals Pooh, P...

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
as Old Man on Bus
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

Super Seal
1976
An injured seal pup's mischievous and playful nature disrupts the home life of the family nursing it back to health.

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too
1974
as Winnie the Pooh (voice)
Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up with an idea to get the bounce out of Tigger. Then, Tigg...

Man, Monsters & Mysteries
1974
as Nessie (voice)
Man, Monsters and Mysteries is a 1974 Disney educational animated featurette. It explains about man's intriguing questions about monsters, mysteries a...

The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
1971
as Self
A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.

The Aristocats
1970
as Roquefort (voice)
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money...

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
1968
as Winnie the Pooh (voice)
Winnie the Pooh and his friends experience high winds, heavy rains, and a flood in Hundred Acre Wood.

Live a Little, Love a Little
1968
as Milkman
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.

The Jungle Book
1967
as Kaa the Snake (voice)
The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and t...

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
1966
as Winnie the Pooh (voice)
Christopher Robin's bear attempts to raid a beehive in a tall tree.

The Restless Sea
1964
as Mr. H2O
The Restless Sea is a 1964 educational animated feature-length film. It was produced by Disney as the final entry in the Bell Telephone Science Hour s...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
as Fire Chief
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is t...

My Six Loves
1963
as Oliver Dodds
A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
1962
as Sketch Actor
Stan Freberg satirizes contemporary television, particularly commercials.
Five Fingers : The Temple of the Swinging Doll
1961
as Hayden
An edited version of an episode of the television series, Five Fingers released in theaters.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960
as Barber
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.

Goliath II
1960
as Narrator
Goliath II is a 6-inch-tall elephant (son of the huge Goliath). He's a big disappointment to his father, but mom is proud of Goliath II anyway. Goliat...

The Liberty Story
1957
as Narrator
Walt Disney presents a combination live-action and animated drama of America's historical fight for freedom. Includes a segment from Johnny Tremain, d...

Hemo the Magnificent
1957
as Lab assistant
Professor Frank Baxter and some animated friends answer questions about blood. what makes it red? Why do little animals' hearts beat so quickly? And s...

Our Mr. Sun
1956
as Chloro Phyll (voice)
One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses—especially children—this film describes the sun in scientific but ent...

Shake, Rattle and Rock!
1956
as Albert 'Axe' McAllister
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.

Kentucky Rifle
1956
as Lon Setter
A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Un...

Columbia Laff Hour
1956
as (archive footage)
A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.

Ben and Me
1953
as Amos Mouse (voice)
A revisionist version of American history as a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin and turns out to be responsible for many of his ideas;...

The Little House
1952
as Narrator
A small house has to try to compete with progress and the encroaching press of the big city.

Susie, the Little Blue Coupe
1952
as Narrator (voice)
From a brand new car in a showroom that draws every eye, to a discard in a second-hand lot and ultimately Skid Row, Susie's story has the highest of h...

Lambert the Sheepish Lion
1952
as Narrator
Disney Legend Sterling Holloway narrates this classic animated short. A mix-up by Mr. Stork finds a little lion cub in the care of a gentle flock of s...

Alice in Wonderland
1951
as Cheshire Cat (voice)
On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades...
The Eternal Melody
1949
as Aristide
A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949
as Basserman Boy
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news f...

Flat Feat
1948
as Officer Sterling Smith / Smith's Father
Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a police officer, has.

Man or Mouse
1948
as Elmer Dinkle
Sterling's physique doesn't impress his girlfriend's father, who is a bodybuilder. She decides to pump him up in order to get her father's approval.
Hectic Honeymoon
1947
as Eddie Jones
Sterling works as a woman's hosiery salesman, and marries one of the office secretaries only to find out that his boss has just decided that anyone in...
Dog Crazy
1947
as Sterling Holloway
After a will leaves most of the money to a dog, Sterling Holloway is given half provided that he can adequately manage the dog's money as well. He wor...

Mickey and the Beanstalk
1947
as Narrator (voice)
A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the a...

Robin Hood Of Texas
1947
as Droopy Haynes
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them...

Saddle Pals
1947
as Waldo T. Brooks Jr.
Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal th...

Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947
as Pokie
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
The Scooper Dooper
1947
as Sterling Holloway
A young man who wants desperately to become a newspaper reporter decides he can cinch his career by exposing a suspected diamond smuggler.

Trail to San Antone
1947
as Droopy Stearns
Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can rega...
Moron Than Off
1946
as Elmer Fossdinkle
In this 1946 All Star Comedy (production number 8434) remake of 1935's "I Don't Remember" short starring Harry Langdon, Sterling Holloway is on his wa...

Sioux City Sue
1946
as Nelson 'Nellie' Bly
A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.

Peter and the Wolf
1946
as Narrator (voice)
Disney's animated adaptation of Prokofiev's masterpiece, in which every character is represented musically by a different instrument. Young Peter deci...

Death Valley
1946
as Slim
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the righ...

Make Mine Music
1946
as Narrator (segment "Peter and the Wolf") (voice)
In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Pe...

A Walk in the Sun
1945
as McWilliams
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and...

Wildfire
1945
as Alkali Jones
Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fann...

The Three Caballeros
1944
as Professor Holloway (voice)
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild a...

The Cold-blooded Penguin
1944
as Narrator (voice)
Disney Short about Pablo the Penguin and his journey to find a warm place.

The Pelican and the Snipe
1944
as Narrator
A snipe that lives with a pelican in a lighthouse must continually keep his pelican friend from harm when he flies in his sleep.

Iceland
1942
as Sverdrup Svenssen
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Ka...

Bambi
1942
as Adult Flower (voice) (uncredited)
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Sterling Holloway
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...

The Lady Is Willing
1942
as Arthur Miggle (uncredited)
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep t...

Don't Get Personal
1942
as Lucky
Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by...

Look Who's Laughing
1941
as Rusty (uncredited)
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistfu...

Dumbo
1941
as Mr. Stork (voice) (uncredited)
Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, ...

Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
as Frank Snark
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape ...

New Wine
1941
as Otto - Bookkeeper
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.

Meet John Doe
1941
as Dan
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The p...

Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941
as Chris Jensen
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only op...

Little Men
1940
as Reporter
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's h...
Street of Memories
1940
as Student Barber
Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers that...

Hit Parade of 1941
1940
as Elmer - Soda Clerk
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking...

Remember the Night
1940
as Willie Simms
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone ...

The Blue Bird
1940
as Wild Plum
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're ...

Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939
as Bartholomew's Bee Asst.
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

Spring Madness
1938
as Buck
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kep...

Professor Beware
1938
as Rupert (the groom)
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po...

Held For Ransom
1938
as RFD Mailman
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

Doctor Rhythm
1938
as Luke (Ice-Cream Man)
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

Of Human Hearts
1938
as Chauncey Ames
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who minis...

Behind the Mike
1937
as Tommy Astor
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.

Varsity Show
1937
as Trout
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadw...

The Woman I Love
1937
as Duprez
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.

When Love Is Young
1937
as Orville Kane
In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a m...

Maid of Salem
1937
as Miles Corbin
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse...

Join the Marines
1937
as Alfred - the Steward
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the tea...

Career Woman
1936
as George Rogers
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accus...

Palm Springs
1936
as Oscar
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.

Rendezvous
1935
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

$1,000 a Minute
1935
as Pete
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.

I Live My Life
1935
as Max
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Doubting Thomas
1935
as Mr. Spindler
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides t...

Life Begins at Forty
1935
as Chris
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft fr...

The Lottery Lover
1935
as Cadet Harold Stump
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" ha...

A Wicked Woman
1934
as Peter
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed...

Girl o' My Dreams
1934
as Spec Early
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the sch...

The Merry Widow
1934
as Orderly
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

Gift of Gab
1934
as Sound Effects Man
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
as Freddy Finn
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs...

Tomorrow's Children
1934
as Dr. Dorsey
Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoh...

Murder in the Private Car
1934
as Office Boy (uncredited)
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daug...

Operator 13
1934
as Wounded Union Soldier (uncredited)
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gai...

Strictly Dynamite
1934
as Fleming
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

Going Hollywood
1933
as Radio Remote Technician
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she dec...

Alice in Wonderland
1933
as Frog
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Advice to the Lovelorn
1933
as Benny
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advic...

Dancing Lady
1933
as Pinky
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get...

Back Page
1933
as Bill Giddings
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.

Wild Boys of the Road
1933
as Ollie
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their par...

When Ladies Meet
1933
as Jerome - the Caddy (uncredited)
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces...

Professional Sweetheart
1933
as Stu
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality,...

Hell Below
1933
as Seaman Jenks
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Fric...

Gold Diggers of 1933
1933
as Second Delivery Boy (uncredited)
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to...

International House
1933
as Sailor
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house ...

One Track Minds
1933
as Train Snack Salesman
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.

Adorable
1933
as Emile (uncredited)
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.

Picture Snatcher
1933
as Journalism Student (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Elmer, the Great
1933
as Nick Kane
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only...

Fast Workers
1933
as Pinky Magoo
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she ...

Blondie Johnson
1933
as Red Charley
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

Hard to Handle
1933
as Andy Heaney (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
The Eagle and the Squawk
1933
Short subject to promote the government’s NRA (National Recovery Act) program.

Lawyer Man
1932
as Olga's Dining Friend (uncredited)
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam's s...

Rockabye
1932
as Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

Faithless
1932
as Photographer
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

Blonde Venus
1932
as Joe, Hiker (uncredited)
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blo...

American Madness
1932
as Oscar (uncredited)
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank r...

The Girl from Everywhere
1927
as Assistant Director
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.

Casey at the Bat
1927
as Putnam
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scou...
The Battling Kangaroo
1926
as Napolean French
Lige Conley goes into a fight to collect money to marry his girl. Then, hooking up with Holloway and George Gray, they get involved in several other s...