Paul Winchell Overview:

Actor, Paul Winchell, was born Paul Wilchinsky on Dec 21, 1922 in New York City, NY. Winchell died at the age of 82 on Jun 24, 2005 in Los Angeles, CA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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Paul Winchell Quotes:

Tigger: Hello, I'm Tigger.
Winnie the Pooh: You said that.
Tigger: Oh? Well, did I say I was hungry?
Winnie the Pooh: I don't think so.
Tigger: Well then, I'll say it: I'm hungry.


Tigger: [singing] The wonderful thing about tiggers / Is tiggers are wonderful things / Their tops are made out of rubber / Their bottoms are made out of springs / They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy fun, fun, fun, fun, fun / But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one / I'm the only one.


Tigger: Honey! Oh, boy, honey! That's what tiggers like best.
Winnie the Pooh: I was afraid of that.
Tigger: [gulps down a few handfuls] Oh, say.
[chuckles]
Tigger: Yyyuck! Tiggers don't like honey!
Winnie the Pooh: But you said you that you liked...
Tigger: Yeah, that icky, sticky stuff is only fit for "heffalumps" and "woozles."
Winnie the Pooh: You mean elephants and weasels.
Tigger: That's what I said, "heffalumps" and "woozles".


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Paul Winchell Facts
Named television's most versatile performer by Look magazine in 1952 and 1953.

Held patents on over 30 devices, a flameless cigarette lighter, an invisible garter belt, a method of breeding Tilapia fish so that poorer countries could feed their citizens, and an indicator to show when frozen food had gone bad after a power outage. As for his major achievement, the artificial heart, which he built in 1963, was donated to the University of Utah for research. The first implant on a human happened in 1982.Paul Winchell invented the disposable razor which he neglected to get a patent on. when friends told him "Who would buy a razor just to throw it away?" Paul abandoned the idea, later to Winch's dismay, a major razor company proved Paul was right!

He won a $17.8-million jury verdict in his lawsuit against Metromedia Inc. over Metromedia's destruction of the only remaining tapes of his "Winchell-Mahoney Time" (1965) children's television series. Metromedia, which produced the show from 1964 to 1968, erased the 288 tapes in a dispute with Winchell over the syndication rights.

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