Junius Matthews

1890 - 1978

Junius Conyers Matthews was an American actor. He was the voice of Archimedes the Owl in Disney's The Sword in the Stone in 1963. He was also the original voice of Rabbit in the Winnie the Pooh franchise from 1966 to 1977. He was a private in World War I before becoming an actor, and determined to become a popular radio and television actor, his career began on stage where he got his first role in a silent film called The Silent Witness (1917). He later played the role of the Tin Woodsman on a radio version of The Wizard of Oz. His distinctive voice can be frequently heard in supporting roles in radio, particularly westerns where he was often cast as an old codger, miner, or master of the cook wagon. Matthews appeared on the short-lived series Luke Slaughter of Tombstone as Slaughter's sidekick, Wichita, and played Ling Wee, a Chinese waiter, in Gasoline Alley. He also made guest appearances on several television series in the 1950s and '60s.

It was not until the last ten years of his life that Matthews became widely known for his role as Rabbit in the Winnie the Pooh movies produced by the Disney studio from 1966 to 1977, including the featurettes Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974) as well as the feature-length compilation film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). He played other roles for Disney, most notably the owl, Archimedes, in Disney's The Sword in the Stone (1963).

Matthews died on January 18, 1978 at age 87 and was buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery

Фильмы

Disney's Halloween Treat

Hal Douglas, Bobby Driscoll

Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."

Disney's Halloween Treat

8.4 ⚠️ 1982

мультфильм

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Wolfgang Reitherman

Sterling Holloway, Junius Matthews

Christopher Robin's bear attempts to raid a beehive in a tall tree.

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

8.0 1966

США, мультфильм

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too

John Lounsbery

Sebastian Cabot, Clint Howard

Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up with an idea to get the bounce out of Tigger. Then, Tigger and little Roo go out for a bounce and get caught in a tree.

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too

7.8 ⚠️ 1974

США, мультфильм

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman

Sterling Holloway, John Fiedler

Whether we’re young or forever young at heart, the Hundred Acre Wood calls to that place in each of us that still believes in magic. Join pals Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and Christopher Robin as they enjoy their days together and sing their way through adventures.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7.5 1977

США, мультфильм

The Sword in the Stone

Wolfgang Reitherman

Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson

Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.

The Sword in the Stone

7.1 1963

США, мультфильм

Black Angel

Roy William Neill

Dan Duryea, June Vincent

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

Black Angel

6.9 ⚠️ 1946

США, криминал

I've Always Loved You

Frank Borzage

Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod

A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.

I've Always Loved You

6.5 ⚠️ 1946

США, драма

Without Reservations

Mervyn LeRoy

Claudette Colbert, John Wayne

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.

Without Reservations

6.4 ⚠️ 1946

США, комедия