Hal Smith (actor)

Article summary

Harold John Smith (August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994) was an American actor. He is credited in over 300 film and television productions, and was best known for his role as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show, and for voicing Owl in four of the five Winnie the Pooh shorts (the character is absent in Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too). Smith also replaced voice actor Sterling Holloway as the title character Winnie the Pooh in the last two shorts, Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons and Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, and in the television series Welcome to Pooh Corner. He was the voice of Goofy from 1967 to 1983, did a cameo in The Apartment as a drunken Santa Claus, and provided the voice of Goliath in the TV series Davey and Goliath from 1961 to 1965.

Key claims

1. date of birth: 1916-08-24 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of death: 1967 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. date of death: 1992 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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3. The record states that the date of death is "1967". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the date of death is "1992". What evidence would count against this claim?
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6. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377222954