Squeaked Out

(Kudos for Monty)
John Fiedler, the only voice of Piglet from 1968’s “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day,” through this year’s “Pooh’s Heffalump Movie,” has died at the age of 80. While watching TV in the 1960s, Walt Disney heard Fiedler’s voice and announced, “That’s Piglet.” Fiedler had the meek, bald demeanor to go with the high voice, and put it to use as henpecked Mr. Peterson on “The Bob Newhart Show,” lawyer J. Noble Daggett in “True Grit,” oblivious medical examiner Gordy Spangler on “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” mousy stage manager Woody on “Buffalo Bill,” put-upon Juror #2 in "Twelve Angry Men," just his second screen role, following Cadet Alfie Higgins on Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Fiedler also appeared on Broadway in “A Raisin in the Sun” and “The Odd Couple.”