Paul Winchell, Voice of Tigger, Dies at 82.....(& Gargamel in "The Smurfs

[ElsewheresDaughter]

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LOS ANGELES - Paul Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children's TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

Winchell died Friday morning in his sleep at his Moorpark home, Burt Du Brow, a television producer and close family friend, told the Los Angeles Times.

Over six decades, Winchell was a master ventriloquist — bringing dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff to life on television — and an inventor who held 30 patents, including one for an early artificial heart he built in 1963.

But he was perhaps best known for his work as the voice of the lovable tiger in animated versions of A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" — with his trademark "T-I-double grrrr-R."

[brooklynite]

1. I was surprised...

I had assumed he was a lot older and had died about 20 years ago. I hadn't heard anything about him in decades.

[norml]

2. Here's my thread on this that was moved from LBN, and put in GD.

What's up with that?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3950270

[kodi]

3. sad to hear of it. there was a thread here about winchell recently

it was about his efforts to help invent the artificial heart.

i loved his Farfel character.. the dog who sang the nestle's song.

RIP Paul. you brought a lot of happiness to the world

[kskiska]

6. Winchell didn't do Farfel

It was Jimmy Nelson, who also did Danny O'Day.

[mitchum]

4. Rest In Peace

I have very fond childhood memories of Mr Winchell

[MrBenchley]

5. He was an early voice in the environmental movement

and invented the artificial heart (you can look it up)....

He will be missed....

[Trajan]

7. Wow ....

Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff were my companions during after-school homework sessions .... So long ago now ....

May he rest in peace ....

and long live Tigger, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff ...

[earth mom]

8. Our family loves Tigger-Winchells voice and personality

are what brought Tigger to life and made us all love him so. He will be missed. :cry: