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Obit: Paul Winchell, at 82

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CrankyYankee

(From the "L.A. Times")

Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in "Winnie the Pooh" features for more than three decades and a versatile ventriloquist who became a fixture in early children's television along with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, has died. He was 82.

Winchell died early Friday in his sleep at his home in Moorpark, Ca.


http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...,0,2339036,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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Inventor of an Artificial Heart too!

Most people are not aware of his Inventions. He was Great.


> (From the "L.A. Times")
>
> Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in "Winnie the Pooh"
> features for more than three decades and a versatile
> ventriloquist who became a fixture in early children's
> television along with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and
> Knucklehead Smiff, has died. He was 82.
>
> Winchell died early Friday in his sleep at his home in
> Moorpark, Ca.
>
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-na-> winchell26jun26,0,2339036,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines
>
>
> (Registration for access to the above link may be necessary,
> but it's free)
>
 
Re: Inventor of an Artificial Heart too!

>
> > Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in "Winnie the Pooh"
> > features for more than three decades and a versatile
> > ventriloquist who became a fixture in early children's
> > television along with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and
> > Knucklehead Smiff, has died. He was 82.
> >
> > Winchell died early Friday in his sleep at his home in
> > Moorpark, Ca.

Paul Winchell brings me back to much simplier time. One of my first memeories is watching the Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney show. Knucklehead Smiff has always been a role model for me.
 
Re: Inventor of an Artificial Heart too!

Paul Winchell and his "dummies" had several TV series in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's. They also made many guest shots on talk and variety shows.

One of Winchell's children has followed him into showbiz. His daughter April Winchell has done cartoon voices and occassionally hosts or co-hosts radio talk shows on KABC-790 in Los Angeles.

This is a sad day not only in show business, but in medicine as well, considering Paul Winchell's invention of one of the first artificial hearts.
 
Re: Inventor of an Artificial Heart too!

If there's one thing I'll miss about this talent is the way he gave life to Dick Dastardly["DRAT! DRAT!...AND DOUBLE DRAT!!"] in both "Wacky Races" and "Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines." I bet he and Don Messick[Muttley] are joking around up there with the others talent who have left us.
 
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