Paul Winchell

Paul Winchell
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

A Christmas Story

• Goober, Sleezer and Runto in the A Christmas Story TV movie (1972)

Banana Splits

• Voice of Fleegle in The Banana Splits Adventure Hour TV series (1968-1970)

Casper

• Fungo in the Casper and the Angels TV series (1979)

Clue Club

• Woofer in the Clue Club TV series (1976)

Droopy

• Rumpley's dad in the Droopy, Master Detective episode "A Chip off the Old Blockhead" (1993)

Flintstones

Main article: Flintstones (franchise)

• Rocky Rockhead in the The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show episode "Mayor May Not" (1971)
• Doctor Cronkrock in The Flintstone Comedy Show episode "Be Patient, Fred" (1980)

Goober and the Ghost Chasers

• Goober in the Goober and the Ghost Chasers TV series (1973)

Grape Ape

• Hinchly in the The Great Grape Ape Show episode "The Grape Race" (1975)

Harlem Globetrotters

• Bad Blue Bart in the The Super Globetrotters episode "The Super Globetrotters Versus the Phantom Cowboy" (1979)

Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!

• Bubi Bear, Slicks, Furface, Pipsqueak, Tiptoes in the Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! TV series (1971-1972)

Jetsons

Main article: Jetsons (franchise)

• Doctor Input and a taxi passenger in the The Jetsons episode "S'No Relative" (1985)

Shake, Rattle and Roll

• Shake in the Shake, Rattle and Roll shorts of the CB Bears TV series (1977)

Smurfs

• Gargamel in The Smurfs TV series (1981–1989)

The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang

• Rafferty in The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang episode "It's a Jungle Out There" (1981)

The Robonic Stooges

• Moe Howard in The Robonic Stooges shorts of the Skatebirds TV series (1977)

These Are the Days

• Charles T. Whitehead in the These Are the Days episode "Grandpa and the Great Cyclic Harmonium Swindle" (1974)

Trollkins

• Mayor Lumpkin in the Trollkins TV series (1981)

Wacky Races

Main article: Wacky Races (franchise)

• Dick Dastardly, Clyde and Private Meekly in the Wacky Races TV series. (1968-1969)
• Sawtooth in the Wacky Races episode "The Wrong Lumber Race" (1968)
• Clyde and Softy in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop TV series. (1969-1970)
• Dick Dastardly and the general in the Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines TV series. (1969-1970)
• Dick Dastardly in the Fender Bender 500 shorts of the Wake, Rattle and Roll TV series (1990-1991)

Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch

• Revs in the Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch TV series (1974)

Yogi Bear

Main article: Yogi Bear (franchise)

• Sheik of Selfishness in the Yogi's Gang episode "The Sheik of Selfishness" (1973)
• Dick Dastardly in the Yogi's Treasure Hunt TV series (1985-1988)
• Dread Baron in the Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose TV movie (1987)

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.