Paul Winchell
Actor/Actriz
43
Movies
47
TV Shows
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
As Actor/Actress
Perry Mason
Henry Clement
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Garfield y sus Amigos
Love, American Style
Dale
Los Pitufos
Gargamel (voice)
Los Beverly Ricos (The Beverly Hillbillies)
Grandpa Winch
What's My Line?
Self
Las aventuras de los osos Gummi
Zummi Gummi (voice)
The Donna Reed Show
The Lucy Show
Paul Winchell
Lights Out
Show de Ed Sullivan
Self
Las nuevas aventuras de Winnie the Pooh
Tigger (voice)
Here's Lucy
Knife Thrower / Jeweler
77 Sunset Strip
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
Las aventuras de Pierre Nodoyuna y Patán en sus máquinas voladoras
Dick Dastardly / The General (voice)
Los supersónicos
Dr. Input (voice)
The Brady Bunch
McMillan & Wife
The Dean Martin Show
Los Aristogatos
Chinese Cat (voice)
The Hollywood Palace
Self
Ghost Story
Mr. Carlson
Your Show of Shows
Nanny and the Professor
Droopy, Master Detective
Rumpley's Dad (voice)
Heathcliff
Marmaduke
El Zorro y el Sabueso
Boomer (voice)