Paul Winchell (December 21, 1922 – June 24, 2005), born Pinkus Wilchinski (the family later shortened it to Wilchin), was an American ventriloquist and voice actor from New York City whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and The City of New York The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 He was also an amateur inventor who was the first person to build and patent a mechanical, artificial heart, implantable in the chest cavity (US Patent #3097366). An artificial heart is a prosthetic device that is implanted into the body to replace the biological Heart. ^[1]

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Ventriloquist work 1.2 Voice-over work 1.3 Live appearance work 1.4 Medical 1.5 Patents 2 Personal life 2.1 Humanitarian Efforts 2.2 Hobbies 2.3 Family 3 References 4 External links

Career

Ventriloquist work

The ventriloquist figures for which he was best known are Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. Both figures were carved by Chicago-based figure-maker Frank Marshall. His first series as a ventriloquist was on radio with Mahoney in 1943. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The program was short-lived, as he was overshadowed by Edgar Bergen. However, radio historian John Dunning, in his 1998 book, On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio, thought Winchell was the better ventriloquist. He also created "Ozwald," an odd little character that resembled Humpty Dumpty. The effect was accomplished by painting eyes and a nose on his chin, then adding a "body" (covering the rest of his face, and finally turning the camera upside down. In 1961, Berwin Novelties introduced a home version of the character that included an Ozwald body, creative pencils to draw the eyes and nose and a "magic mirror" that automatically turned your reflection upside down.

Voice-over work

Winchell's later career included a great deal of voice-over acting for animated cartoons, notably for Disney and Hanna-Barbera. For the latter, he played the character Dick Dastardly in several series (notably Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley), Fleegle on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, and Gargamel on The Smurfs. Dick Dastardly is a Fictional character and Antagonist who appeared in various Animated series by Hanna-Barbera Productions Wacky Races is an animated television series from Hanna-Barbera, about a group of 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies with each driver Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS from September The Smurfs is a American Cartoon series that aired on NBC from 1981 to 1989 He also provided voices on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch!, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, The Robonic Stooges, and The CB Bears. The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is an American Animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera (now known as Cartoon Network Studios Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch! is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1971 for CBS. Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch was a 30-minute cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired for one season on NBC from September 7, 1974 The Robonic Stooges was a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series featuring The Three Stooges in new roles as clumsy crime-fighting bionic superheroes CB Bears was a 60-minute Saturday morning cartoon program block produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC from September

For Disney, Winchell was best known for voicing the character Tigger in Disney's Winnie the Pooh films, and won a Grammy for his performance in Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. Tigger is a fictional Tiger character originally introduced in A Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional Bear created by A The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ^[2]

Beginning with the television series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, he alternated in the role with Jim Cummings, the current voice of Pooh. The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an American Animated Television series made by The Walt Disney Company, and inspired by James Jonah "Jim" Cummings (born November 3, 1952 in Youngstown Ohio) is an American voice actor. Winchell's final performance as Tigger was in Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (though Winchell played Tigger one last time in the attraction, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh featured in the Disney theme parks). Pooh's Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin (also known as Winnie the Pooh's Most Grand Adventure in some countries is Disney 's Following Winchell's retirement, Cummings permanently took over the role of Tigger starting with The Tigger Movie in 2000. The Tigger Movie is a 2000 American animated Family film, directed by Jun Falkenstein. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Other Disney roles included parts in The Aristocats as a Siamese cat, and The Fox and the Hound as Boomer the woodpecker. The Aristocats is a 1970 Animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions. The Siamese is one of the first distinctly recognised breeds of Oriental Cat. The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 Animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions, first released to Movie theatres in the U On TV, he was the original voice of Zummi Gummi on Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears. Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears is an American Animated television series that aired in the United States in the mid-1980s through the

Winchell provided the voices of Sam-I-Am and his unnamed friend on Green Eggs and Ham from the animated television special Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973). Green Eggs and Ham is a best-selling and critically acclaimed book by Dr Dr Seuss on the Loose is an animated special for television first airing on CBS in October 15, 1973, and hosted by The Cat in the Hat He also did the voice of Fearless Freddy the Shark Hunter on the Pink Panther cartoon spin-off Misterjaw in 1976. The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of Misterjaw is a 34-episode made-for-television cartoon series produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1976 for The Pink Panther and Friends In commercials, he voiced the character of Burger Chef for the fast food chain of the same name, the Scrubbing Bubbles for Dow Chemicals and Mr. Burger Chef was an American Fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1954 in Indianapolis Indiana. The Scrubbing Bubbles are Mascots for Scrubbing Bubbles bathroom cleaner from S Owl for Tootsie Roll Pops. Tootsie Roll Pops, sometimes known as Tootsie Pops, are Hard candy Lollipops filled with chewy Chocolate -flavored Tootsie Rolls They

Live appearance work

Other work included on-camera guest appearances on such series as The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, "The Dick Van Dyke Show", and The Brady Bunch, as well as a 1960 movie that included a compilation of Three Stooges shorts (Stop!, Look and Laugh), and a part in the Jerry Lewis movie Which Way to the Front? On Love, American Style, he appeared with fellow ventriloquist Shari Lewis in a sketch about two shy people in a waiting room who choose to introduce themselves to each other through their dummies. The Beverly Hillbillies is an American Television series about a Hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills California after finding The Lucy Show is a Television series which ran from 1962 until 1968 The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television Situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to The Brady Bunch is an American Television Situation comedy based around a large blended family. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Three Stooges were an American Vaudeville and Comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous Short subject films Stop! Look! and Laugh! was a feature-length Three Stooges compilation featuring all of the supposed original Three Stooges Moe Howard, Larry Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American Comedian, award-winning actor producer writer and director best-known for his slapstick Which Way to the Front? is a 1970 film starring Jerry Lewis. It would be Lewis' last released film for eleven years until 1981's Hardly Love American Style is an hour-long television Anthology which was produced by Paramount Television and originally aired between September Shari Lewis (born Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz; January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998) was a Jewish American

Winchell's most successful TV show was Winchell-Mahoney Time (1965–1968), a highly-imaginative kids' show. Winchell played several onscreen characters, including Knucklehead Smiff's father, as well as himself, as friend and adult advisor to Mahoney and Smiff. He also created "Oswald," a surreal character by painting eyes and a nose on his chin, covering his face with a small costume, then having the camera inverted. The resulting pinheaded character seemed to have an immensely wide mouth and a highly mobile head. Winchell created this illusion by moving his chin back and forth.

The show was produced at KTTV-TV in Los Angeles, which was owned by Metromedia. KTTV, channel 11 is an Owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation -owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles California Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Metromedia (also often MetroMedia) was a media company that owned radio and Television stations in the United States from 1956 In 1986, Winchell sued Metromedia over syndication rights to 288 surviving videotapes of the show. In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto Magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. Metromedia responded by destroying the tapes. Subsequently, a jury awarded Winchell $17. 8 million. ^[3]

Winchell's last regular on-camera TV appearances working with his puppets were The Storybook Squares (a children's version of the adult celebrity game show The Hollywood Squares which was seen Saturday mornings on The NBC TV network during the 1969 TV season) and Runaround, another children's TV game show seen Saturday mornings on NBC TV from September 1972 to September 1973. The Hollywood Squares was an American Television comedy and Game show in which two contestants play Tic-tac-toe to win money

Medical

He was very interested in medicine and studied pre-med at Columbia University. He graduated from The Acupuncture Research College of Los Angeles in 1974, and became an acupuncturist. He also worked as a medical hypnotist at the Gibbs Institute in Hollywood. ^[4]

Patents

Winchell developed over 30 patents in his lifetime. He invented an artificial heart with the assistance of Dr. Henry Heimlich (the inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver) and held the first patent for such a device. Henry Jay Heimlich MD (born Henry Judah Heimlich, 3 February 1920 is an American Physician credited as the inventor of abdominal thrusts known as the Choking is the mechanical obstruction of the flow of air from the environment into the lungs The University of Utah developed an similar apparatus around the same time, but when they tried to patent Winchell's heart was cited as prior art. The University of Utah (referred to locally as ' The U' or ' the U of U') is a publicly funded Research university in Salt Lake The university requested that Winchell donate the heart to the University of Utah, which he did. The University of Utah (referred to locally as ' The U' or ' the U of U') is a publicly funded Research university in Salt Lake There is some debate as to how much of Winchell's design Dr. Robert Jarvik used in creating his artificial heart. Robert Koffler Jarvik (born May 11, 1946) is an American Scientist, Researcher and Entrepreneur known for his role in developing the Dr. Heimlich states, “I saw the heart, I saw the patent and I saw the letters. The basic principle used in Winchell's heart and Jarvik's heart is exactly the same. ”^[5] Dr. Jarvik denies that any of Winchell's design elements were incorporated into the device he fabricated for humans — the Jarvik-7 — which was successfully implanted into Barney Clark in 1982. An artificial heart is a prosthetic device that is implanted into the body to replace the biological Heart. An artificial heart is a prosthetic device that is implanted into the body to replace the biological Heart. ^[6][7]

Winchell established more medical patents while working on projects for the Leukemia Society and the American Red Cross. Some of the other devices he invented and patented include a disposable razor, a blood plasma defroster, a flameless cigarette lighter, an "invisible" garter belt, a fountain pen with a retractable tip and battery-heated gloves. Garters are articles of Clothing: narrow bands of fabric fastened about the leg used to keep Stockings up A fountain pen is a Pen that contains a reservoir of water-based liquid ink. ^[8]

Personal life

Humanitarian Efforts

In the 1980's Winchell — concerned about the starving African people — developed a method to cultivate tilapia fish in tribal villages and small communities. Tilapia (təˌlɑpiə is the common name for nearly a hundred Species of Cichlid Fishes from the Tilapiine cichlid tribe The fish thrives in brackish waters, which made it particularly well suited for sub-Saharan Africa. Winchell appeared before a Congressional Committee with several other celebrities including, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Asner and Dr. Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29 1947 is an Academy Award -winning American Actor, known for a number of film television and theater roles such Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American Actor primarily known for his Emmy -winning role as Lou Grant on Henry Heimlich. Henry Jay Heimlich MD (born Henry Judah Heimlich, 3 February 1920 is an American Physician credited as the inventor of abdominal thrusts known as the The Committee declined to finance a pilot program for the tilapia aquaculture project (in Africa) because it required digging a well into non-potable water, which the Committee felt was not advisable. Aquaculture is the farming of freshwater and saltwater organisms including Molluscs Crustaceans and aquatic plants ^[9]

Hobbies

Winchell was interested and involved in technology right up to the time of his death. He created and maintained a personal website until 2004. For a short time, he operated the now-defunct website ProtectGod. com, which discussed the theology of the latter years of his life. Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective

Family

Winchell had five children: a son, Stacy Paul Winchell; and a daughter Stephanie from his first marriage to Dorothy (Dottie) Movitz; a daughter, April Winchell, who is a comedienne and voice actress, from his second marriage, to actress Nina Russell; and two stepsons, Larry and Keith Freeman, from his third marriage, to Jean Freeman. April Terri Winchell (born on January 4, 1960 in New York City, New York, U

Winchell's autobiography, Winch (2004), exposed many dark areas of Winchell's life, which had hitherto been kept private. The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books The autobiography opened old wounds within the Winchell family, prompting daughter April to publicly defend her mother who was negatively portrayed in the book. Winchell was estranged from his children, and thus they were not immediately notified of his death. " Estranged " is a song and music video by the American Hard rock band Guns N' Roses, from their fourth album Use Your Illusion A message on April's website stated:

T. T. F. N. I got a phone call a few minutes ago, telling me that my father passed away yesterday. A source close to my dad, or at least, closer than I was, decided to tell me himself, instead of letting me find out on the news, which I appreciate. Apparently a decision had been made not to tell me, or my father's other children. My father was a very troubled and unhappy man. If there is another place after this one, it is my hope that he now has the peace that eluded him on earth. ^[10]

References

External links

• Official website
• Obituary by Mark Evanier
• Paul Winchell at the Internet Movie Database
• Archive.org mirror of Paul's ProtectGod.com website
• Knock on Wood: An Insider's View of Belly Speaking
• "A Tribute to Ventriloquism" at CosterJoe. com
  • "A Pictorial History of Ventriloquism, Vol. 1"
  • "A Pictorial History of Ventriloquism, Vol. 2"

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