Paul Winchell

Acting

Paul Winchell

Born 1922-12-21 · New York City, New York, USA

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 Paul's characters--as the clubhouse leaders, and the music of the bandleader Milton Delugg. A new innovation of Winchell's was to replace the dummy's 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 Company's "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

Acting credits

The Aristocats poster
7.3

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

The Aristocats

1970

The Fox and the Hound poster
7.2

When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on his role as a hunting dog -- and the object of his search is his best friend!

The Fox and the Hound

1981

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh poster
7.2

Whether we’re young or forever young at heart, the Hundred Acre Wood calls to that place in each of us that still believes in magic. Join pals Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and Christopher Robin as they enjoy their days together and sing their way through adventures.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

1977

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin poster
7.1

Pooh gets confused when Christopher Robin leaves him a note to say that he has gone back to school after the holidays. So Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Rabbit go in search of Christopher Robin which leads to a big adventure.

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin

1997

Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You poster
6.9

After Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Rabbit see Christopher Robin making a valentine for -- gasp! -- a girl, they find he's been bitten by a "Smitten" and is lovesick! Worried that he'll no longer have time for them, and hoping a second bite from the love bug will cure him, they set out on a wild adventure to capture the Smitten. This wonderful story, filled with magic and whimsy, and sweetened with three new songs, reminds us all that the heart is big and always has plenty of room for friends -- old and new.

Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You

1999

Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year poster
7.0

It's Christmastime in the Hundred Acre Wood and all of the gang is getting ready with presents and decorations. The gang makes a list of what they want for Christmas and send it to Santa Claus - except that Pooh forgot to ask for something. So he heads out to retrieve the letter and get it to Santa by Christmas...which happens to be tomorrow!

Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year

2002

Which Way to the Front? poster
4.7

Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not take "No" for an answer and recruits other 4-F's to fight against Hitler.

Which Way to the Front?

1970

Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving poster
6.6

A collection of Winnie the Pooh's memorable holiday adventures, as Winnie, Piglet, and Tigger set out to find the right ingredients for Winter, Rabbit learns how to manage a complicated Thanksgiving dinner, and everyone gets a special visit from a new friend. Featuring a number of delightful songs for singing along, this movie is sure to become a favorite holiday classic.

Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving

1999

The 1st Annual NBC Yummy Awards poster
NR

60 minute preview for NBC's Saturday morning cartoon line up presented as a mock awards show. Hosted by Ricky Schroder and Dwight Schultz.

The 1st Annual NBC Yummy Awards

1983

Winnie the Pooh & Christmas Too poster
6.9

Pooh is so busy gathering up his friends' wish lists for Santa that he forgets to include his own. After retrieving the list and adding his own desires, he realizes he's late getting it where it needs to go. Off he goes to the North Pole on Christmas Eve, with pals Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Rabbit, and Christopher Robin missing him

Winnie the Pooh & Christmas Too

1991

Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore poster
6.7

Winnie the Pooh and friends decide to throw a birthday celebration for gloomy, old Eeyore.

Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore

1983

Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun poster
8.0

Winnie the Pooh's Spookable Fun is a Walt Disney video release containing five terror-themed episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, including "Things That Go Piglet in the Night", "The Monster Frankenpooh", "Rock-a-Bye Pooh Bear", "Pooh Moon", and "A Knight to Remember".

Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun

2000

Dr. Seuss on the Loose poster
7.3

The pressure to conform, the inevitability of change, and the resistance to trying something new form the basis for the usual madcap adventures associated with the creative mind of Dr. Seuss. "Dr. Seuss on the Loose" builds upon three short stories - "The Sneetches," "The Zax" and "Green Eggs and Ham" - to create a thematic trio that explores the often fickle and flexible world of attitudes.

Dr. Seuss on the Loose

1973

The Tiny Tree poster
6.3

A little girl is injured in an accident and confined to a wheelchair. When Christmas arrives, the forest animals decorate a small tree outside her window to give her a happy holiday.

The Tiny Tree

1975

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day poster
7.3

Winnie the Pooh and his friends experience high winds, heavy rains, and a flood in Hundred Acre Wood.

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

1968

A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving poster
6.6

It's Thanksgiving time in the Hundred Acre Wood and Winnie the Pooh and all his friends bring food for the big dinner. Piglet brings acorns, Pooh brings honey, Owl brings biscuits, Gopher brings lemonade, and Tigger brings ice cream. But then, Rabbit walks in and tells them their Thanksgiving dinner was unacceptable and informs them that a real Thanksgiving dinner includes turkey, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie, so Pooh and his friends set out to find those very items.

A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving

1998

The Magical World of Winnie the Pooh: A Great Day of Discovery poster
7.3

Join all your pals from the Hundred Acre Wood as they laugh, play and learn important lessons in four enchanting adventures. What do you give a Tiger who has nothing and wants everything? Turns out, it's the thought that counts in All's Well That Ends Well. Then, Christopher Robin learns about responsibility when Kanga puts him in charge of Roo in Babysitter Blues. Next, Rabbit's unbending schedule threatens to turn him into the ultimate Party Poohper, and Tigger's wild imagination puts a little too much bounce into Piglet's Pooberry!

The Magical World of Winnie the Pooh: A Great Day of Discovery

2003

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too poster
7.7

Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up with an idea to get the bounce out of Tigger. Then, Tigger and little Roo go out for a bounce and get caught in a tree.

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too

1974

The Smurfic Games poster
6.9

The Smurfs engage in athletic competition to settle a dispute between both ends of the village over misquoted compound words, which turns deadly when the medal Clumsy is awarded actually causes an earthquake.

The Smurfic Games

1984

Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose poster
6.7

Yogi and the gang mistakenly board the famous Howard Hughes' plane The Spruce Goose. They accidentally start the plane, so they decide to take it for a spin, helping animals and people along the way.

Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose

1987

The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma poster
6.9

Wilma is a celebrity when she gets a shot at the big leagues and becomes a pitcher for the Bedrock Dodgers after nailing a couple of robbers with a melon at the grocery store; however, she and Fred argue over her ambition to pitch for the team because Fred thinks a woman's place is in the home.

The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma

1981

Stop! Look! and Laugh! poster
5.3

Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

1960

My Smurfy Valentine poster
7.3

What could be more smurfy than spending Valentine's Day with the most lovable little blue creatures in all of the forest? In this half-hour animated special from Hanna-Barbera, the residents of Smurf Village cheerfully await Cupid's arrival ... but evil lurks nearby. Can Cupid's arrow make a dent in the stone-hard heart of Gargamel, the evil wizard? Will Smurfette's Prince Smurfing ever arrive?

My Smurfy Valentine

1983

Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue poster
5.0

A live-action/animated television special produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue

1978