Sterling Holloway, the voice behind Winnie the Pooh, the Cheshire Cat and the snake Kaa of "The Jungle Book," died of cardiac arrest Sunday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, his agent, Kingsley Colton, said Monday. He was 87.
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In comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s, the Georgia-born actor often played a country bumpkin. He transferred his gangly mannerisms to television in "The Baileys of Balboa," a 1964-65 cop comedy. He also appeared regularly on "Hollywood Premiere," "The Life of Riley" (as Waldo), the 1954-55 legal drama "Willy" and "Your Story Theatre."But it was the sweet and innocent, singsong voice he created for the honey-grubbing bear Pooh in four film featurettes that endeared him to children as well as adults.