Posted June 26, 200520 yr comment_2661290 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.
June 27, 200520 yr comment_2670376 This is horrible... even though I don't watch Winnie the Pooh, Tigger is the best character on the whole damn show. This is just saddening. I need a shoulder to sob on.
June 27, 200520 yr Author comment_2673094 The voice of Piglet died today also. Not a good week to be a Disney voice actor.
June 28, 200520 yr comment_2687817 The voice of Piglet died today also. Not a good week to be a Disney voice actor. John Fiedler. I was surprised to learn who he was, because he was a terrific actor outside of the Piglet voiceovers. Twelve Angry Men is one of my favorite dramas, and I highly recommend it to anyone to catch a glimse of Fiedler's work.
June 28, 200520 yr comment_2691551 He was also one of the more notable patients on The Bob Newhart Show.
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