Lionel G. Wilson
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Lionel G. Wilson was an American voice actor.
[edit] Biography
Lionel Lazarus Salzer was born in New York City on March 22, 1924. He started acting in 1949 on the series The Aldrich Family as George Bigalow. He then began voice acting in 1963 when he played Sidney the Elephant and Stanley the Lion on the TV series The Hector Heathcote Show. From 1966 to 1971 Wilson played Billy Bear on several animated shorts. In 1999, at the age of 75, he got the role of Eustace Bagge on the Cartoon Network animated series Courage the Cowardly Dog. After 33 episodes as Eustace, he retired because of illness and was replaced by Arthur Anderson. On April 30, 2003 in his hometown, he died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 79 from pneumonia. An episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog is dedicated to his memory.