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name: "Bruce Reitherman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bruce-reitherman"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 September 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T06:10:23.685315+00:00"
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# Bruce Reitherman

Actor. Born 15 September 1955 in Burbank, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 September 1955, Burbank, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Bruce Phillip Reitherman
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q991779, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0718624/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57331

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Jungle Book*](https://film.one/film/the-jungle-book.md) (80)

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## Biography

Bruce Reitherman is an American filmmaker, cameraman and former child actor. He is the son of Disney animator and director Wolfgang Reitherman, one of the studio’s Nine Old Men.

He voiced Mowgli in *The Jungle Book* (1967) and Christopher Robin in *Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree* (1966) and the compilation film *The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh* (1977).

After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, Reitherman worked as a freelance cameraman from 1983 and produced natural history documentaries broadcast by PBS, National Geographic Television, the Discovery Channel and the BBC.

*Sources: theguardian.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Jungle Book* (1967), Fi1m 80, as Mowgli the Man Cub (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-jungle-book.md)

## Also known for

- *The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh* (1977), Christopher Robin (Honey Tree) (voice)
- *Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree* (1966), Christopher Robin (voice)

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