Hal Smith (actor)
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Harold John "Hal" Smith (August 24, 1916 - January 28, 1994) was an American character actor and voice-over artist.
He was best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show and as the voice of the Disney cartoon character Goofy after the original voice died. He provided the voice of Owl in many of the Winnie the Pooh shorts and features. In 1983, he reprised his role as Owl and also voiced Winnie The Pooh in Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. It was the first and only time he did Pooh. In 1988's The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh TV series, Jim Cummings took over as Pooh while Smith again played Owl.
He did much work in Hanna-Barbera cartoons in the 1970s. For Disney's 'DuckTales he was the voice of Scrooge McDuck's rival Flintheart Glomgold and absent-minded scientist Gyro Gearloose.
From 1987 to 1994, he was the voice of John Avery Whittaker on the Focus on the Family radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.
He was born in Petoskey, Michigan. He died in Woodland Hills, California of a heart attack, at age 77.