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Howard Jerome "Howie" Morris was an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and director, who, for Disney, provided the original voice of Gopher in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. After his retirement, Michael Gough took over the role. He also voiced Sir Paunch in the Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "Too Many Cooks" (in which he was miscredited as "Howard Norris"), Maltese de Sade in the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Le Purrfect Crime", Djinni in the DuckTales episode "Master of the Djinni", King Amok in the TaleSpin episode "The Road to Macadamia", and portrayed Dr. Zidell in the 1984 Touchstone Pictures film Splash and Leo Zellman in The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.

Morris was born in the Bronx, New York, and attended New York University on a dramatic arts scholarship. During World War II, he was assigned to a United States Army Special Services unit where he was the First Sergeant, alongside fellow actors Maurice Evans, Carl Reiner, and Werner Klemperer. After the war, he decided to continue performing and came into prominence with appearances on Sid Caesar's NBC show Your Show of Shows.

While appearing in films, such as The Nutty Professor (1963), The Comic, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, and Life Stinks, Morris was best known for playing Ernest T. Bass in the CBS sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. He also appeared on other shows, including The Twilight Zone, I Dream of Genie, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Lucy Show, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Trapper John, M.D., Murder, She Wrote, and Baywatch. A well-known voice actor, he voiced Forsythe "Jughead" Jones in The Archie Show, Wade Duck in U.S. Acres, Flem in the Cartoon Network series Cow and Chicken, as well as characters in various Hanna-Barbera productions, like The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Magilla Gorilla Show, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Snorks, Paw Paws, and Yo Yogi!.

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