 Milwaukee 28 June 2005 -- John Fiedler, a stage and screen
actor who grew up in Wisconsin and won fame as the voice of Piglet in Walt
Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh films, died from cancer, according to his brother,
James Fiedler. He was 80.
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- Fiedler died on Saturday in New York, a day after the
death of Paul Winchell (82) who created the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's
animated friend Tigger in the Disney films.
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- John Fiedler's stage credits included the part of Medvedenko
in The Sea Gull starring Montgomery Clift and the Broadway productions
of A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier and The Odd Couple starring
Walter Matthau and Art Carney.
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- He landed character parts in movies, including True Grit
with John Wayne and A Touch of Mink with Cary Grant. He also played parts
on TV, including Star Trek,/i> and The Bob Newhart Show.
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 But he became famous for the
squeaky voice of the ever-worrying Piglet.
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- Fiedler continued voicing Piglet, most recently this
year in Pooh's Heffalump Movie. Last year, he did Winnie-the-Pooh: Springtime
with Roo, and in 2003, Piglet's Big Movie.
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- Fiedler was born in Platteville in southwestern Wisconsin
and grew up in the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, graduating from high
school there before serving in the navy in World War II, his brother said.
After his military service, he went to New York. - Sapa-AP
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