First Tony the Tiger, now this! Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger, dies

[norml]

Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger, dies
Los Angeles Times

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in Winnie the Pooh features for more than three decades and a versatile ventriloquist who became a fixture in early children's television along with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, has died. He was 82.

Mr. Winchell died early Friday in his sleep at his home in Moorpark, Calif., Burt Du Brow, a television producer and close family friend, said Saturday.

Although he was a legendary ventriloquist and built a career attracting legions on followers on that dwindling art, Mr. Winchell's most durable legacy might be his rich voice as Tigger and other animated characters on television and in motion pictures.

He became the lovable Tigger in 1968 for Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which earned an Academy Award for best animated short film. Mr. Winchell continued to voice A.A. Milne's imaginative little tiger on television and the big screen through Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving in 1999. In recent years, Jim Cummings has voiced Tigger as well as Pooh.



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[ghostsofgiants]

1. Note to self:

If you want to live a fairly long, and probably interesting life, provide the voice for a beloved orange cartoon character.

[hlthe2b]

2. Oh, Lordy... If you didn't hear the "remembrances" sketch on

Morning Sedition (with Mark Maron & Mark Riley) on AAR last week which featured a mourning tribute to the voice of Tony the TIger, get thee to www.AirAmericaPlace.com and download it. It was hilarious!

[Tom Kitten]

3. That's sad...

I used to watch the Winchelle Mahoney show every day when it was on when I was a kid...

I see where he gets some credit for inventing the artificial heart?

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. R.I.P. Tigger

:cry:

[WhollyHeretic]

5. He did an amazing job with tigger

RIP

[LastKnight]

6. ow damn...

i grew up with tigger as a fixture in my early years... he was my favorite!

T-I-double Ga-ER!

:toast: that ones for you, tigger-man...

[mykpart]

7. The actor who did Pooh's voice is also deceased, isn't he?

[norml]

10. Sterling Holloway was the original voice of Winnie the Pooh.

Sterling Holloway was the original voice of Winnie the Pooh. Holloway died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles on Nov. 22, 1992. Since 1990, the new voice of Winnie the Pooh has been Jim Cummings.

[crimson333]

8. I think I shall bounce in memory of tigger

because tiggers are wonderfully madeO8)

[Kathleen04]

9. Aww

Sad to hear. :( But it sounds like he had a long life and a fun career..

Wow, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is from 1968??..cartoons really are timeless...