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man who showed apt. to Shotze

posted 14 years ago by sleepybears
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Whose the actor in the beginning that showed Shotze the apartment. He looks and sounds familiar

I AGREE! he sounded quite similar to Smee from Disney's "Peter Pan!"

[–] salndean2003 14 years ago

That was Percy Helton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Helton

One of his better moments in film came two years after HTM a Millionaire. Playing a little dude roughed up by Ralph Meeker's Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly.

[–] whitelion43 10 years ago

He is familiar because he did A LOT of Television but you might remember him as either as the train conductor in White Christmas("the train fair is still $32 and 28 cents) or the Drunk Santa at the beginning of the original Miracle on 34th street.

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[–] ObstinateAnnette 14 years ago

His voice always reminds me of Winnie the Pooh for some reason.

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[–] goheathergo 14 years ago

I believe he's the voice of Piglet.

[–] dmnemaine 14 years ago

He's not the voice of Pooh or Piglet. Pooh was voiced by actor Sterling Holloway. Piglet was voiced by actor John Fiedler.

[–] goheathergo 13 years ago

I stand corrected.

[–] blue-7 9 years ago

He's also in THE ROBE which was the film Fox used to introduce the CinemaScope process. He was the wine seller who jumps into the pool when Richard Burton throws his payment of coins into the pool.

[–] laxlon 7 years ago

One of his last roles was in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". He plays a minor character in the town called Sweet Face I think. They pay him to tell the posse that they rode out of town but at gunpoint he points to the hotel across the street.

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