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Photo Gallery: Sterling Holloway 1905-1992
Sterling Price Holloway, Jr., like his father, was named for Confederate
General Sterling "Pap" Price. He was born on this site and went to school
here then attended the Georgia Military Academy in College Park, now
Woodward Academy. He later graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts in New York with Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien. He then began a movie
career that was to last for 40 years. He was one of the busiest character
actors in the movies and worked with Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Marlene
Dietrich, Bing Crosby, Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Cagney, Fred Astaire and Gary
Cooper. In 1841, Holloway's voice was heard in his first Walt Disney
animated film, Dumbo. His voice appeared in Bambi, Peter and the
Wolf, Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Book and the Winnie the Pooh
series. He acted in many television series including The Life of Riley,
The Untouchables, Superman, Hazel, The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island
and Andy Griffith. He sang the first hit song, Manhattan, by
the team Rogers and Hart in 1925, and his Disney production of Prokofiev's
Peter and the Wolf remains the most popular version ever recorded.
His recordings, especially as Pooh Bear in the Winnie the Pooh series, made
his voice famous all over the world.115-6 Erected by Governor Zell Miller
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