Please help me with a name of an old whining comedy actor

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I am trying to find a performer who sounds like Charlie in the Box from Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964).

I think it was a male and he was on some old B&W sitcom or in an old B&W comedy movie. The character played was always whining and complaining about how difficult everything was.

It is not the actor, Alfie Scopp, who did the voice for Charlie. I checked his IMDB and have not seen anything he did other than Rudolph.

The clip is from youtube showing Charlie about 10 seconds in.

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Frank Nelson? Ed Wynn?

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Ed Wynn it is!!!

Thank you Earl XO

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I was thinking Ed Wynn as well.

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Sounds an awful lot like Ed Wynn.

Sterling Holloway?

John Fiedler?

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I’ll be back in a flash with more trash.

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Joe Besser would have been my guess.

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Thinking of the “Charlie in the Box” voice, the first thing I thought of that was similar was the guy in “Mary Poppins” who sang the song about “I Love To Laugh”. So I asked my wife who that was, since Mary Poppins is one of her favorite movies. “Ed Gwynne?” was her answer.

So, either Ed Wynn or Fred Gwynne. You decide.