Another Monkee guest is remembered. Courtesy of The Big Cartoon Database:
Disney actor and narrator Laurie Main dead at 89
>Posted on February 16, 2012by Ethan Minovitz
>
>Lau­rence “Lau­rie” Main
>Australian-born actor Lau­rence “Lau­rie” Main, the voice of Dr. Wat­son
in the 1986 Dis­ney car­toon movie The Great Mouse Detec­tive, died
Feb­ru­ary 8 in Los Ange­les. He was 89.
>Long asso­ci­ated with Disney’s “Win­nie the Pooh” char­ac­ter, he
was host and nar­ra­tor of the Dis­ney Channel’s Wel­come to Pooh
Cor­ner, a 1980s series com­bin­ing live action and puppets.
>He also nar­rated the Dis­ney ani­mated shorts Win­nie the Pooh
Dis­cov­ers the Sea­sons (1981) and Win­nie the Pooh and a Day for Eey­ore
(1983). In the voice cast of the 1999 car­toon video Win­nie the Pooh:
Sea­sons of Giv­ing, he also was the story reader on many Dis­ney Read-Along
tapes and CDs.
>Main voiced Reg­gie on Ruby-Spears Pro­duc­tions’ The Incred­i­ble
Detec­tives, a half-hour 1979 pro­gram that aired as an ABC Week­end Special.
>He was in the voice casts of the Hanna-Barbera Aus­tralia TV-movies 5 Weeks in
a Bal­loon (1977) and Black Beauty(1978), along with the series
Monch­hichisand The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show(both 1983) and The Yogi
Bear Show(1988).
>Born Lau­rence G. Main in Mel­bourne on Novem­ber 29, 1929, he left home at
16. Later, he moved to Eng­land. There, his reper­tory the­ater work included
Diary of a Nobody.
>After Main arrived in the United Stated in 1960, he stud­ied act­ing with
Agnes Moore­head. His Broad­way debut came in First Impres­sions (1959); that
year, he played oppo­site Eartha Kitt in Jolly’s Progress. Other Broad­way
pro­duc­tions included 1963’s Lord Pengo and 1978’s 13 Rue de l’Amour.
>Main appeared in many live-action movies, includ­ing Her­bie Goes to Monte
Carlo, Freaky Fri­day and Mom and Dad Save the World.
>He appeared in such TV shows as The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Bewitched, Fam­ily
Affair, May­berry R.F.D., That Girl and Facts of Life Goes to Paris.
He is also best remembered by Monkee mavens as Mr. Friar in Monkees episode No.
55, the Peter Tork-directed "The Monkees Mind Their Manor" (#4751). To absent
friends...


_______________________________________________
Aaron Handy III- ah07_1999@..., aaronhandy_iii@...,
classictvbuff@..., ahiii@..., ah3_tv_fan@...,
ah_trois@..., aarhan3@...
The Aaron Handy III TV Web Shrine - A Site Dedicated To Favorite Shows---Yours
And Mine! - http://tvwebshrine.tvheaven.com/

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]