TIGGER AND GARGAMEL ARE DEAD -- RIP Paul Winchell

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First Thurl Ravenscroft and now this. Hats off and bow your heads to the memory of the great man.

http://www.paulwinchell.com/images/paul_gradient.jpg

(And yes, the voice of Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff as well.)

He was a popular children's TV host in the US, and first voiced Tigger in 1968 in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which won an Academy Award.

Winchell also voiced Gargamel in The Smurfs and Boomer in The Fox and the Hound, as well as other Disney and Hanna-Barbera productions.

He was also an inventor, patenting an artificial heart in 1963.

His other patents included a disposable razor, a flameless cigarette lighter and an invisible garter belt.

Official site here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 June 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

invisible garter belt?

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Sunday, 26 June 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

WTF, don't you guys wonder who is going to take care of Gargamel's cat now? It certainly won't be the smurfs!!!!!

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

i haven't seen a smurfs cartoon in ten years : (

― g e o f f (gcannon), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

My favorite was Handy Smurf.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Also, I have a cat named Tigger. But it lives at my mom's house cuz roomies and girlfriend are allergic.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Whoa. To the umpteenth power.

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

hahaha. "Yo! what up, bitchez!"

― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.suckadelic.com/images/page%20elements/SuperVillains%20files/snapshots/gargamel.jpg

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

April Winchell, the well-known DJ and web presence, found out second hand.

"Apparently a decision had been made not to tell me, or my father's other children. My father was a very troubled and unhappy man. If there is another place after this one, it is my hope that he now has the peace that eluded him on earth."

Sounds like a man with problems. Good thoughts out to April and the rest of the family.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I was a young viewer of his Jerry/Knucklehead show. And apparently Metromedia erased all the tapes during a legal dispute.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Gosh, it's been a bad year for cartoon tigers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

The voice of Piglet, John Fiedler, died this weekend, too!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

haha i can still remember watching 12 angry men in 8th grade social studies and hearing a bunch of girls yell "it's piglet!!" at the screen. RIP.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

I'd never think of Fiedler as Piglet first, but as one of Bob Newhart's patients.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

THEY EVEN LOOK LIKE PIGLET & TIGGER!
http://www.geocities.com/jkfunpage/features/images/fiedler_bewitched.jpg
http://www.paulwinchell.com/showbizpix_files/image048.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

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