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Wayne Allwine, voice of Mickey Mouse, dies at 62

May. 21, 2009
Allwine got the role in 1976. He was only the third person -- Walt Disney was the first -- to voice the character. 'It's really not about me; it's about Mickey, and Mickey is Walt's,' he once said. Wayne Allwine, a Walt Disney Studios voice-over artist who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for more...
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Wayne Allwine, voice of Mickey Mouse, dies

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LOS ANGELES, May 21 (UPI) -- U.S. voice actor Wayne Allwine, who played the iconic character Mickey Mouse for decades, has died of complications from diabetes, the Walt Disney Company said.

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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler