| GENUS PEDIGREE: |
Honey Bear |
| KNOWN ALIASES: |
Pooh Bear, "Mr. Sanderz," a bear of very little brain |
| KNOWN RELATIVES: |
unknown |
| KNOWN PETS: |
unknown
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| CITIZENSHIP: |
Hundred-Acre Woods; Christopher Robin's House.
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| KNOWN CONFIDANTS: |
Christopher Robin; Piglet; Tigger; Owl; Rabbit; Gopher; Kanga & Roo; Eeyore; Kissie the Bluebird; Dexter Owl; Junior Heffalump; Sir Brian & the Dragon.
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| KNOWN RIVALS: |
Heffalumps & Woozles, especially "Heff" Heffalump, Stan Woosel and Wooster the Giant Woosel; the Jagular.
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| PARAPHERNALIA: |
Honey and Honey Pots. |
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| 1st PRINT APPEARANCE: |
"Winnie the Pooh" which ran for 33 issues from 1997 to 1984 (Dell / Whitman). Reprints of these often appear in various issues of "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories." |
| 1st FILM APPEARANCE: |
"Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" (Feb. 4, 1966).
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| VOICE ACTOR: |
Sterling Holloway (1966 until his death); Hal Smith (current).
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| SIGNATURE: |
"Oh bother"
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| BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: |
Winnie the Pooh and his stuffed animal friends are the playmates of young Christopher Robin. Christopher's imagination fuels the adventures of the silly bear, even when Christopher is not around. Among Pooh's playmates are Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga and Roo and his very best friend (next to Christopher), Piglet. They all live in the Hundred-Acre Woods. |
| HISTORICAL FACTS: |
"Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" (Feb. 4, 1966),"Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" (Dec. 20, 1968), and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" (Dec. 20, 1974) were combined into one feature length film and released to theaters March 11, 1977 under the title "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh." Aside from a few commercial outings, Winnie's next featurette was "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore" (Mar. 11, 1983). All new animated adventures were produced for television called "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" (Sep. 10, 1988) and later combined with "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" into a program called "The Gummi Bears and Winnie the Pooh Hour" (1989), which was an obvious predecessor to the two-hour showcase called "The Disney Afternoon." (See: D.T.A.). |
| LITTLE KNOWN SECRETS: |
"Winnie the Pooh" was based on the books by A(lan) A(lexander) Milne which he wrote for his son Christopher Robin Milne. Christopher received a stuffed bear toy when he was one year old which was called "Pooh" adapted from a swan they met while vacationing. The name "Winnie" was taken from an American black bear cub at the London Zoo in 1914. The rest of Christopher Robin's toy animals were also written into the stories. |
| WORKING THEORIES: |
unknown |
Winnie the Pooh 
