Jim Cummings

James Jonah "Jim" Cummings is an American voice actor and singer.

Cummings was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and later moved to New Orleans where he worked on Mardi Gras floats and as a door-to-door salesman. He then moved to California, where he worked odd jobs before he got into voice acting. He is known for his ability to mimic Sterling Holloway's high voice.

He has voiced many characters in several Disney productions, most notably Darkwing Duck, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Pete, Ray, Bonkers D. Bobcat, Kaa, and various other characters listed below.

In other work outside of Disney, he provided additional voices for the stop-motion sketch comedy series ', and voiced Steele, the main antagonist of ', Leatherhead in the original 1987 series of ', Cat in the series ', Dr. Robotnik in the SatAM version of ', Fuzzy Lumpkins in the  series ', Vexx in the ' franchise, and Malefor in Season 2 of ', a role that Mark Hamill originated in . He is also well-known for being the current voice of Tony the Tiger in the Kellogg's commercials.

Trivia

 * Cummings is the third person to voice Winnie the Pooh and Kaa, after Sterling Holloway and Hal Smith.
 * He is not related to his fellow voice actors Brian Cummings or Todd Cummings.
 * He will reprise his role as Winnie the Pooh in the upcoming live action film. This makes him the second actor to reprise his animated role in a live-action film, the first being James Earl Jones as Mufasa in the 2019 live-action remake of The Lion King.