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Paul Winchell
New York City, New York, USA
Born Paul Wilchinsky on December 21, 1922, the son of Sol and Clara Wilchinsky, Paul Winchell grew up to be the most beloved ventriloquist of American children. Ironically, as fam…
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Born Paul Wilchinsky on December 21, 1922, the son of Sol and Clara Wilchinsky, Paul Winchell grew up to be the most beloved ventriloquist of American children. Ironically, as famous as Paul was, his dummy, Jerry Mahoney, was probably more famous. Not since Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in the previous two decades had a ventriloquist and his dummy known equal celebrity. Entering the spotlight on the Edward Bowes "Original Amateur Hour" (1948), he began working soon after in a review show in which Major Bowes would showcase the winners of his radio program. He started his television career on the CBS program The Bigelow Show (1948) in 1948; The Paul Winchell Show (1950), originally called "The Spiedel Show," in 1950; and, finally, the best-known of his shows Winchell-Mahoney Time (1965). With a clubhouse premise, his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff--another of Paul's characters--as the clubhouse leaders, and the music of the bandleader Milton Delugg. A new innovation of Winchell's was to replace the dummy's hands with those of puppeteers who were hidden behind the dummies in a crate. Winch also played many serous dramatic roles on television without his dummy sidekicks. What may be even more famous is that he created the voice of Tigger for the Walt Disney Company's "Winnie The Pooh" motion-picture series, based on the famous books by A.A. Milne. He played the role behind the scenes until 1999, when he was replaced by Jim Cummings, who also voiced Pooh from the time that Sterling Holloway died. He was also the voice of many other world-famous cartoon characters. A little-known fact about Winchell is that he was one of the original inventors of an artificial heart--years before the first successful transplant with such of a device--an automobile that runs on battery power, a method for breeding tilapia, and many other inventions that are still around today. - IMDb Mini Biography By: MeanDean
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- 2003
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2002
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
Movie Tigger (segment "Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too") (voice)
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2000
Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1999
Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1999
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1998
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1997
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1996
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: The Story Behind the Masterpiece
Movie Self - Voice of 'Tigger'
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1995
Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1995
Winnie the Pooh: Un-Valentine's Day
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1994
Winnie The Pooh Playtime: Cowboy Pooh
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1994
Winnie The Pooh Playtime: Pooh Party
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1994
Winnie The Pooh Playtime: Detective Tigger
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1993
Droopy, Master Detective
TV show Rumpley's Dad (voice)
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1991
Winnie the Pooh & Christmas Too
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1990
Wake, Rattle, and Roll
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1990
Fender Bender 500
TV show Dick Dastardly (voice)
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1988
Garfield and Friends
TV show
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1988
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
TV show Tigger (voice)
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1987
Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose
Movie Dread Baron (voice)
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1986
Kingdom Chums - Little David's Adventure
Movie (voice)
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1986
Gummi Bears: A New Beginning
Movie Zummi Gummi (voice)
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1985
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
TV show Zummi Gummi (voice)
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1985
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
TV show Dick Dastardly (voice)
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1984
The Smurfic Games
Movie Gargamel (voice)
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1984
Here Are the Smurfs
Movie Gargamel (voice)
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1983
The Smurfs: Baby's First Christmas
Movie Gargamel (voice)
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1983
The Smurfs Halloween Special
Movie Gargamel
- 1983
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1983
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
Movie Tigger (voice)
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1983
My Smurfy Valentine
Movie Gargamel (voice)
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1982
The Smurfs Christmas Special
Movie Gargamel (voice)
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1982
The Smurfs Springtime Special
Movie Gargamel (voice)
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1981
Romeo and Smurfette
Movie Gargamel (Voice)
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1981
The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma
Movie Umpire / Thief / Reporter (voice)
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1981
The Smurfs
TV show Gargamel (voice)
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1981
Spider-Man
TV show
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1981
Trollkins
TV show
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1981
The Fox and the Hound
Movie Boomer (voice)
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1980
Heathcliff
TV show Marmaduke
