John Donald Fiedler (February 3, 1925 – June 25, 2005) was an American voice actor and character actor in stage, film, television and radio. Slight, balding, and bespectacled, with a piping voice (reminiscent of actor Percy Helton), his career stretched forty years but he is perhaps best remembered for two roles: the voice of Piglet in Disney's many Winnie the Pooh productions and the role of Mr. Peterson, nervous patient on The Bob Newhart Show. February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... A character actor is an actor, especially in motion pictures, who predominantly performs in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ... Interior of the 1928 B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Helton as the bartender in Criss Cross (1949) Percy Helton (January 31, 1894 - September 11, 1971) was an American film and television actor. ... Piglet is a fictional character from A. A. Milnes Winnie-the-Pooh books. ... The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Edward Winnie-the-Pooh Bear, sometimes referred to as Pooh, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. ... The Bob Newhart Shows Complete Second Season DVD. Pictured (clockwise, bottom left): Newhart, Daily, Wallace, Bonerz, Pleshette The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different television series. ...

Born in Platteville, Wisconsin, Fiedler began his career in New York, working on the radio comedy The Aldrich Family as sidekick Homer Brown, and making his film debut in 12 Angry Men (1957), as the nervous Juror #2. Most of his subsequent roles were as gentle or nervous types, though occasionally he broke out of the mold, notably in the original Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold," as an official possessed by Jack the Ripper. Platteville is a city located in Grant County, Wisconsin, which is in the southwest corner of the state. ... New York, New York redirects here. ... Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve sitcom elements, sketches, and many other forms of comedy found on other mediums. ... The Aldrich Family was a popular radio teenage situation comedy from 1939 through 1953. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ... Wolf in the Fold is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. ... Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ...

On Broadway, Fiedler was in the original casts of A Raisin in the Sun (as housing committee representative Lindner, a part he would recreate in both the 1961 film version and the 1989 TV version) and The Odd Couple (as poker player Vinnie), reprising both roles for the film versions. Other on-camera work included roles in the films True Grit and The Cannonball Run, plus many guest spots on TV series, from Bewitched and Get Smart to Rockford Files and The Twilight Zone. He had a recurring guest role on Kolchak: The Night Stalker as morgue attendant Gordy "The Ghoul" Spangler, and in Kingdom Hearts. He was heard in the Disney features The Rescuers, Robin Hood, The Emperor's New Groove, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Tigger Movie, Piglet's Big Movie, Pooh's Heffalump Monie and The Fox and the Hound. Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. ... See Odd Couple (disambiguation) for other works with the same title Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau, stars of film adaption Tony Randall & Jack Klugman, stars of TV adaption The Odd Couple was a hit 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as... A game of Texas holdem, the most popular form of poker, in progress. ... True Grit by Charles Portis first appeared as a 1968 short story in The Saturday Evening Post. ... Cannonball Run was a campy, screwball comedy released in 1981 that starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Farrah Fawcett-Majors. ... Bewitched was an American situation comedy starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964-1969), and Dick Sargent (1969-1972). ... Get Smart was an American comedy television series that satirized the secret agent genre, which was quite popular in the mid-1960s. ... The Rockford Files was an American detective television drama that had its first run on the NBC television network between 1974 and 1980. ... The Twilight Zone title. ... Darren McGavin as Kolchak in The Night Stalker (1972) Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a television series that aired on ABC in 1974, about a newpaper reporter -- Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin -- who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities wont accept. ... Mortuary, a film directed by Tobe Hooper, see Mortuary (film). ... Kingdom Hearts video game. ... The Rescuers is a 1977 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. ... Robin Hood was a animated film by Walt Disney Studios, first released in the United States on November 8, 1973. ... The Emperors New Groove is a 2000 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures through Buena Vista Distribution on December 15, 2000. ... The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977. ... The Tigger Movie film poster The Tigger Movie is a 2000 film produced by The Walt Disney Company and directed by Jun Falkenstein. ... Piglets Big Movie is a 2003 animated feature produced by the DisneyToon Studios in Tokyo, Japan and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Fiedler died June 25, 2005 due to cancer. Coincidentally, Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger died June 24, 2005, the day before Fiedler's death. June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Paul Winchell (December 21, 1922 – June 24, 2005), born Pinkus Wilchinski (the family later shortened the name to Wilchin) in New York City, was an American ventriloquist and voice actor whose fame flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. ... The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Never married, Fiedler was survived by a brother.

External links

• John Fiedler at the Internet Movie Database
• John Fiedler at the Voice Chasers Database
• John Fiedler article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.