John Donald Fiedler was an American actor and voice artist, who was slight, balding, and bespectacled, with a distinctive, high-pitched voice.
Fiedler was born in Platteville, Wisconsin and graduated from Shorewood High School in 1943. He enlisted in the United States Navy and served until the end of World War II. After his discharge from the Navy, Fiedler began acting in New York City, appearing on the radio comedy The Aldrich Family as Homer Brown. He would later appear in stage productions as well as many movies, such as True Grit with John Wayne, A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier both on stage and film, and The Odd Couple with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Other appearances included 12 Angry Men, The World of Henry Orient, Girl Happy, Sharky's Machine, and The Cannonball Run. Fiedler also appeared on television shows, such as Cheers, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Peter Gunn, The Munsters, Fantasy Island, Bewitched, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, and The Bob Newhart Show.
For Disney, he was best known for voicing Piglet in the Winnie the Pooh franchise and currently holds the record for the longest running voice actor to ever voice a Winnie the Pooh character, having voiced Piglet for 37 years until his death (with the exception for Welcome to Pooh Corner, where Piglet was voiced by Phil Baron instead). John Fiedler's final role as Piglet was in Pooh's Heffalump Movie, released in February 2005, 4 months before his death.
Fiedler also voiced the Porcupine in The Fox and the Hound, the Deacon Owl in The Rescuers, Sexton Mouse in Robin Hood, and Rudy in The Emperor's New Groove. Additionally, he played Wally Thorpe in Midnight Madness and Charles Blackburn in The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton. He also appeared in The Golden Girls episode "Love Me Tender" playing a love interest of Dorothy and he appeared in the films: The Shaggy D.A. as Howie Clemmings and Rascal as C.Y. Jenkins.
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(The Shaggy D.A.)
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- Paul Winchell (the former voice of Tigger), incidentally, passed away on June 24, 2005, one day before John Fiedler's death, at the age of 82.
- John Fiedler was considered to voice Roquefort in The Aristocats, along with several other actors, but the role was ultimately given to Sterling Holloway (the original voice of Pooh).[citation needed]
