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Bill Thompson (voice actor) was born on 8 July, 1913 in Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S., is a voice actor. Discover Bill Thompson (voice actor)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Occupation Radio personality, voice actor
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 8 July 1913
Birthday 8 July
Birthplace Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Date of death (1971-07-15) Culver City, California, U.S.
Died Place Culver City, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Mary Margaret McBride (m. 1952)

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Bill Thompson (voice actor) Net Worth

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1998

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1971

Thompson's final role was as Uncle Waldo in The Aristocats, released shortly before his sudden death from septic shock on July 15, 1971, just a week after his 58th birthday.

1960

Thompson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio, on February 8, 1960.

1958

During this period, around 1958, Thompson appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show To Tell the Truth.

1957

In 1957, Thompson joined the Los Angeles branch of Union Oil as an executive, working in community relations and occasionally reprising his radio characters. He remained sporadically active in animation, however, going on to play King Hubert and Sound Of Birds With Purv Pullen in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, and as Touché Turtle for Hanna-Barbera's Touché Turtle and Dum Dum. Also, Thompson was originally cast as Fred Flintstone in The Flintstones. However, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera decided to recast the role and Alan Reed re-dubbed Fred's voice in the episodes Thompson had already recorded (Thompson can still be heard in some bit roles in the early episodes).

1955

His best showcase may well have been in Lady and the Tramp (1955), where he was heard in no fewer than five dialect parts, as Jock the Scottish Terrier, Bull the Cockney bulldog, Dachsie the German dachshund, Joe the Italian cook, and the Irish policeman in the zoo. In shorts, he was heard as Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore in several "Donald Duck and Humphrey the Bear" entries and as Professor Owl in two music related shorts, Melody and Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (directed by Ward Kimball), amongst many others. He reprised both of these roles in Disney's various television series, and was the first actor to voice the comic book character Scrooge McDuck (the theatrical featurette Scrooge McDuck and Money). Another prominent role is that of Irish station manager Flannery in Pigs Is Pigs (directed by Jack Kinney), and the voice of Uncle Waldo from The Aristocats.

1952

In 1952, Thompson married Mary Margaret McBride, the daughter of cartoonist Clifford McBride. The couple remained married until Thompson's death in 1971.

1950

Around 1943, however, Thompson's thriving career was interrupted when he joined the US Navy during World War II, and all of his radio characters were temporarily dropped. He returned to Fibber McGee full-time in 1946, however, and also became a semi-regular on Edgar Bergen's radio series as lecturer "Professor" Thompson. On February 21, 1950, he married Mary Margaret McBride.

Thompson continued to work on radio until the late 1950s, notably in several episodes of CBS Radio Workshop, and his animation voice-over career also began to build steam during the 1950s. At the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, he returned as Droopy and also played Droopy's recurring bulldog nemesis Spike, known as Butch, in his appearances produced after Avery's departure from MGM, and many other characters in the studio's cartoon shorts (he used the Wimple/Droopy voice for the titular Native American caricature in Big Heel-Watha and for Tom's lookalike cousin George in a 1957 Tom and Jerry entry Timid Tabby, for two examples).

1936

Thompson soon achieved his greatest fame after he joined the cast of the radio comedy Fibber McGee and Molly around 1936. On Fibber McGee and Molly, Thompson brought back the Wimple voice in 1941, and essayed a variety of roles, including a boisterous conman with a W. C. Fields voice, originally named Widdicomb Blotto but soon re-christened Horatio K. Boomer, and Nick Depopulis, the Greek restaurant owner. His two most famous roles on the series, however, were as the Old Timer and Wallace Wimple. The Old Timer, introduced in 1937 was a garrulous old gent who dropped in and listened to McGee's rambling stories and jokes. He inexplicably referred to McGee as "Johnny", as in: "That's pretty good, Johnny, but that ain't the way I heerd it!" This soon became a national catchphrase and surfaced in Warner Bros. cartoon shorts, notably Tortoise Wins by a Hare in which Bugs Bunny disguises himself as a bearded old man and tries to trick the tortoise into telling him "how he beat that wabbit!")

1934

Thompson was born to vaudevillian parents and was of Scottish ancestry. He began his career in Chicago radio, where his early appearances included appearances as a regular on Don McNeill's morning variety series The Breakfast Club in 1934 and a stint as a choir member on the musical variety series The Sinclair Weiner Minstrels around 1937. While on the former series, Thompson originated a meek, mush-mouthed character occasionally referred to in publicity as Mr. Wimple.

1913

William H. Thompson (July 8, 1913 – July 15, 1971) was an American radio personality and voice actor, whose career stretched from the 1930s until his death. He was a featured comedian playing multiple roles on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio series, and was the voice of Droopy in most of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio theatrical cartoons from 1943 to 1958.