Bruce Talkington was an American regular writer, story editor, and associate story editor for The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, as well as numerous other animated properties, including Disney's DuckTales, Bonkers, TaleSpin, Timon and Pumbaa, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Fluppy Dogs, a TV movie created as a pilot for a television series that went unproduced.
He was also the writer of Winnie the Pooh books and a Snow White book called "Tales from the Cottage".
Talkington's likeness was used as the inspiration for the Rescue Rangers character Professor Norton Nimnul.