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 Pauls characters--as the clubhouse leaders, and the music of the bandleader Milton Delugg. A new innovation of Winchells was to replace the dummys 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 Companys 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
Tigger (voice)
Film 1997
Gargamel (voice)
Film 1983
(voice)
Film 1986
Zummi Gummi (voice)
Film 1986
Tigger (voice)
Film 1974
The King of Id/Peasant
Film 1971
(voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1994
Bobcat / Various Animals (voice)
Film 1970
Tigger (voice)
Film 1995
Paul Winchell
Film 1960
Film 1983
Voice of Dummy
Film 1939
Tigger (voice)
Film 1998
Gargamel (voice)
Film 1984
Gargamel (voice)
Film 1983
Self - Voice of 'Tigger'
Film 1996
Turtle
Film 1975
Wizard (voice)
Film 1973
Jamie / Timmy (voice)
Film 1973
Tigger (voice)
Film 1994
Sneetches / Sam-I-Am / Green Eggs and Ham Hater (voice)
Film 1973
Jefferson Swickle
Film 1975
Tigger (voice)
Film 1994
Dread Baron (voice)
Film 1987
Fleegle / Tree (voice)
Film 1972
Fire Chief Vernon
Film 1969
Gargamel (voice)
Film 1984
Atkinson
Film 1925
Tv 1958
Clyde (voice)
Tv 1968
Self
Tv 1950
Tv 1969
Tv 1969
Paul Winchell
Tv 1962
Grandpa Winch
Tv 1962
Tigger (voice)
Tv 1988
Tv 1981
Henry Clement
Tv 1957
Self
Tv 1948
Tv 1971
Tv 1970
Dick Dastardly / The General (voice)
Tv 1969
Tv 1971
Self - Ventriloquist
Tv 1964
Self
Tv 1967
Tv 1950
Tv 1973
Woofer
Tv 1976
Tv 1958
Tv 1965
Tv 1956
Dick Dastardly (voice)
Tv 1985
Tv 1975
Tv 1968
Tv 1949
Tv 1948
Tv 1975
Mr. Carlson
Tv 1972
Shake
Tv 1977
Tv 1981
Host
Tv 1950
The Rainmaker (voice)
Tv 1966
Doc Putnam
Tv 1962
Dr. Input (voice)
Tv 1962
Self
Tv 1961
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
Self - Panelist
Tv 1950
Rumpley's Dad (voice)
Tv 1993
Tv 1988