Leonard Weinrib (April 29, 1935 – June 28, 2006) was an American actor, voice actor and writer. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show H.R. Pufnstuf, and as the original voice of Scrappy-Doo and Bigmouth in The Smurfs. HR Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States. Scrappy-Doo is a fictional Great Dane puppy created by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1979 as the nephew of Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Smurfs is a American Cartoon series that aired on NBC from 1981 to 1989
Weinrib, a native of the Bronx, got his start in show business working with comedian and musician Spike Jones, then later in The Billy Barnes Revue. Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones ( December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing Billy Barnes (born January 27, 1927 in Los Angeles, California) is a six-time Emmy Award nominated composer/lyricst He made notable guest appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Burke's Law, and The Munsters, to name a few. The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television Situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is a Situation comedy that ran on CBS in the USA from 1959–1963 Burke's Law is a detective series which ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s The Munsters is a 1960s American television Sitcom depicting the home life of a family of Monsters.
Weinrib is probably best known for his voice acting work. Starting with The Jetsons (1962), Weinrib provided numerous voices for such animated works as Inch High, Private Eye, The New Adventures of Batman, Tarzan and the Super 7, and Hong Kong Phooey. The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Inch High Private Eye was a 1973 Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The New Adventures of Batman is an Animated series produced by Filmation in 1977 featuring the DC Comics Superheroes Tarzan and the Super 7, was a Saturday morning cartoon series produced by Filmation and originally airing from 1978–1980 Hong Kong Phooey is a 16-episode (31 shorts Hanna-Barbera Animated series that first aired on ABC Saturday morning from September He was the voice for both Roland and Ratfink in that series of cartoon shorts. Roland and Rattfink is a series of animated shorts produced and released from 1968 to 1971 He also provided the voice of Timer in the 1970s Time for Timer series of educational spots shown on ABC. Time for Timer was the collective title for a short series of Public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC Television The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. In Voltron: Defender of the Universe, he supplied the voice of Hunk and the villain Prince Lotor. Voltron is a series of animated television programs, the first of which was titled Voltron Defender of the Universe.
Weinrib played the iconic role of H. An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn, "image" is a religious work of art most commonly a painting from Eastern Christianity. R. Pufnstuf throughout the show's entire run from 1969 through 1971, and also wrote every episode of that series. The year 1969 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1969. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. He also appeared as the character in an episode of CHiPs in 1977. CHiPs is an American Television Drama series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (licensee by Turner Entertainment) The year 1977 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 1977.
Weinrib retired from acting in the 1980s and moved to Santiago, Chile. Santiago ( (litteraly in spanish Saint James) is the Capital of Chile, and the center of its largest Conurbation ( Greater Santiago Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the He died in a hospital near his home in Chile on June 28, 2006, after suffering a stroke. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain functions due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain
His daughter, Linda Bendik and grandchildren, Lauren and Steven Bendik currently work as voice actors.
His daughter Heidi Weinrib has performed as part of the ensemble cast of Rojo de Chile, a popular Chilean talent competition broadcast by Television Nacional de Chile.
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