Paul Winchell
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Paul Winchell | |
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Years active at Hanna-Barbera | 1968-1993 |
Relatives | April Winchell, daughter |
Characters played | Fleegle Dick Dastardly Clyde Softy The General Bubi Bear Slicks Furface Pipsqueak Tiptoes Goober Woofer Moe Howard Shake Fungo Rafferty Gargamel Mayor Lumpkin Doctor Input Dread Baron |
Paul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor and inventor, who may be best remembered as the voice of Tigger when Walt Disney Pictures began animating the books of Winnie-the-Pooh, and continued until the late 1990s when he fully relinquished the role to Jim Cummings.
Winchell died on June 24, 2005 at the age of 82. He is succeeded by his daughter April Winchell.
Roles
20th century
- The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-1970)
- Fleegle (voice)
- Wacky Races (1968-1969)
- The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969-1970)
- Clyde
- Softy
- Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969-1970)
- Dick Dastardly
- The General
- Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! (1971-1972)
- The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971-1972)
- Rocky Rockhead ("Mayor May Not," 1971)
- A Christmas Story (1972)
- Goober and the Ghost Chasers (1973)
- Yogi's Gang (1973)
- Sheik of Selfishness ("The Sheik of Selfishness," 1973)
- Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (1974)
- These Are the Days
- The Great Grape Ape Show (1975)
- Hinchly ("The Grape Race," 1975)
- Clue Club (1976)
- The Skatebirds (1977)
- CB Bears (1977)
- Casper and the Angels (1979)
- The Super Globetrotters (1979)
- The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980-1981)
- Doctor Cronkrock ("Be Patient, Fred," 1980)
- The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
- Rafferty ("It's a Jungle Out There," 1981)
- The Smurfs (1981-1987)
- Trollkins (1981)
- The Jetsons
- Doctor Input ("S'No Relative," 1985)
- Taxi passenger ("S'No Relative," 1985)
- Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985-1988)
- Dick Dastardly
- Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987)
- Wake, Rattle & Roll (1990-1991)
- Dick Dastardly
- Droopy, Master Detective (1993)
- Rumpley's dad ("A Chip off the Old Blockhead," 1993)
Other roles
Winchell was a very successful stage ventriloquist. He and his puppet, Jerry Mahoney, hosted the children's game show Runaround (1972).
He was the original voice of Tigger in Disney's Winnie the Pooh movies.
On The Oddball Couple (1975), Winchell voiced Fleabag opposite Frank Nelson as Spiffy.
Behind the scenes
- Winchell was an inventor during his lifetime. He created an electric-powered artificial heart with the assistance of Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, and held an early U.S. patent for such a device. The University of Utah developed a similar apparatus around the same time, but when they tried to patent it, Winchell's patents were cited as prior art. Eventually, Winchell donated his heart patents to the university.[1][2]
References
- ^ Mueller, Jim (August 18, 1999). "One Thing for Sure, He's No Dummy". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
- ^ Winchell, Paul (filed February 6, 1961; application granted July 16, 1963) US3097366A. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
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