Junius Matthews(1890-1978)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Junius Matthews was born Junius Conyers Matthews on June 12, 1890 in
Illinois. He was determined to become a popular radio and television
actor. He started out on stage, and got his first role in the classic
The Silent Witness (1917), as Bud Morgan. Before the movie The Wizard of Oz (1939), he did the voice of
the Tin Woodman on radio. He appeared in many movies, but he became
really popular for the role of Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh movies from
1966 to 1977, such as Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966). In 1977, he did the voice of Rabbit in
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). He still did the voice although he was already 87. On January
18, 1978, he died at age 87 of natural causes.
