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PAUL WINCHELL 1922-2005
BORN: December 21, 1922 in Manhattan, New York
FAME: Vent Superstar of Television
CHARACTERS: Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smiff
LINK: IMDB
www.imdb.com/name/nm0934593/
LINK: TV PARTY
www.tvparty.com/lostmahoney.html
LINK: TV ACRES
www.tvacres.com/child_paulwinchell.htm
LINK: ACADEMY OF TV
www.emmys.tv/news/2005/june/winchell.php
LINK: TODDLER TIME
www.toddlertime.com/kathi/paul-winchell.htm
LINK: WIKIPEDIA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Winchell
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PAUL WINCHELL TV
SHOWS
The Bigelow
Show 1948-49
The Paul Winchell
and Jerry Mahoney Show 1950-54
Toyland Express
1955-56
Circus Time
1956-60
Cartoonies 1963
Winchell-Mahoney Time 1965-68 |
1968:
Winnie-the-Pooh and the Blustery Day (Winchell
provided the voice for Tigger. He continued to provide the
voice for subsequent Disney films until 1999.)
TRIVIA: In 1986 Paul Winchell
won a $17.8-million jury verdict in his lawsuit against Metromedia
Inc. over Metromedia's destruction of the only remaining tapes of
his Winchell-Mahoney Time children's television
series. Metromedia, which produced the show from 1965 to 1968,
erased the 288 tapes in a dispute with Winchell over the syndication
rights.
TRIVIA: Frank Marshall is the
creator of the Jerry Mahoney figure. In fact Marshall even appeared
on the television show What's My Line in 1956 and
mentioned his work on Paul Winchell's famous figure. Comments about
the episode are available at
www.tv.com/episode-320/episode/95470/summary.html.
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