Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore Sterling Holloway elected not to continue the role of Pooh and Sebastian Cabot, the original narrator, died shortly after the release of the feature film "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh". The deaths of Junius Matthews in 1978 and Barbara Luddy in 1979 also necessitated changes in Rabbit's and Kanga's portrayers; Will Ryan began a three-year stint as Rabbit's voice in this featurette while Julie McWhirter portrayed Kanga only once. Additionally, Laurie Main, Hal Smith, Will Ryan, and Kim Christianson later appear in the live-action series "Welcome to Pooh Corner" as the Narrator, Winnie the Pooh, Owl, Rabbit, and
Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh) a cameo appearance in the DreamWorks animated film, "Bee Movie" along with Pooh, at one point, a man spies Pooh and Piglet eating honey and Barry tells him to "take him out" with a tranquilizer dart. John Fiedler provided the voice for Piglet from 1968 until his death on June 25, 2005, except in "Welcome to Pooh Corner" where Phil Baron voiced him. Fiedler's last appearance as Piglet's voice was in "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie". With the exception of Christopher Robin's voice actors Bruce Reitherman and Jon Walmsley, Fiedler was the last living member of the original Winnie the Pooh