Sunday, June 26, 2005
R.I.P. Paul Winchell:
Paul Winchell died last night (Sat) in his home in Moorpark in his sleep at age 82.
Besides being the voice of Tigger in the Winny the Pooh films, Winchell did voices for Fox & the Hound, The Aristocats and a myriad of voices for Hanna & Barbera including Dick Dastardly in Penelope Pittstop.
I'll always remember him for his childrens show with his ventriloquist dolls Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smith. I begged my parents for a Jerry Mahoney Doll.
Annie Award Winner, Winchell also was an early designer of a valve in the first Jarvick 7 artificial hearts. So adieu Paul, look up to the heavens and give one last : Scottie-Wattie-Doo-Doo!!
-Tom Sito ¶ 6:52 AM
Paul Winchell died last night (Sat) in his home in Moorpark in his sleep at age 82.
Besides being the voice of Tigger in the Winny the Pooh films, Winchell did voices for Fox & the Hound, The Aristocats and a myriad of voices for Hanna & Barbera including Dick Dastardly in Penelope Pittstop.
I'll always remember him for his childrens show with his ventriloquist dolls Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smith. I begged my parents for a Jerry Mahoney Doll.
Annie Award Winner, Winchell also was an early designer of a valve in the first Jarvick 7 artificial hearts. So adieu Paul, look up to the heavens and give one last : Scottie-Wattie-Doo-Doo!!
-Tom Sito ¶ 6:52 AM
