Sam Edwards - my 373rd choice to be named a Disney Legend

As a voice actor and radio veteran, Edwards was also often heard behind animated characters both on film and records. In 1942, he voiced the adult Thumper in the animated classic Bambi. Later work for Disney was largely on LP Records, including the voices of the Cowardly Lion and Tin Woodman on their Oz series, and as the bouncy Tigger, Rabbit and Owl on the Winnie the Pooh records. He voiced the title character of Rod Rocket in an early 1960s educational series, and did some episodes of the cult classic Jonny Quest. His last work for Disney was as Ollie Owl opposite singer Burl Ives as Sam the Eagle on their long-running America Sings attraction at Disneyland.

He was in the episode "Hog Wild" Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV - 1974) -as a farmer, as Deputy Sam in the show Scandalous John, as Military Radio Dispatcher in The Absent Minded Professor, and as a gun club member in The Biscuit Eater.