Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson was born on July 8, 1913, in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of vaudeville performers. Source: Wikipedia

He got his start in Chicago radio in 1934 as a regular on Don McNeill's The Breakfast Club, where he first used the meek, mumbling voice later known as Mr. Wimple. Source: Wikipedia

The RadioGOLDINdex lists him on Fibber McGee and Molly from the January 27, 1936 broadcast onward, often in more than one part per show. Source: RadioGOLDINdex

On Fibber McGee and Molly he voiced the Old Timer, a talkative old man who called Fibber "Johnny" and whose line about how he "heerd it" became a national catchphrase that even turned up in Warner Bros. cartoons. Source: Wikipedia

His longest-lasting character was Wallace Wimple, a timid bird-watcher whom McGee nicknamed "Wimp" and who lived in fear of his never-heard wife, "Sweetie Face." Source: Wikipedia

He also played Horatio K. Boomer, a blustering con man with a W. C. Fields-style voice who was first called Widdicomb Blotto, and Nick Depopulis, a Greek restaurant owner. Source: Wikipedia

After three years in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he came back to Fibber McGee and Molly on the January 15, 1946 broadcast. Source: RadioGOLDINdex

On screen, Tex Avery built the cartoon dog Droopy around the Wimple voice, and Thompson voiced Droopy as well as Disney parts such as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (1951). Source: Wikipedia

He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his radio work on February 8, 1960, and died on July 15, 1971, in Culver City, California, at 58. Source: Wikipedia