Dan Gross Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 T-I-Double G-Rrrrrr and Piglet, oh Dear. (he's done Piglet's voice all the way up to the latest movies...). RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffaloboyinATL Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Wow, that's weird. They both died this weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark VI Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Paul Winchell was quite famous, when I was a kid. He was on variety shows such as Laugh-In, Ed Sullivan etc. with his puppet Jerry Mahoney all the time. A great cartoon voice, much like Mel Blanc. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 They say the Tigger voice guy was a pretty prolific inventor, too. Apparently had a patent on an early artificial heart. WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 "Ta-Ta for now" R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 He had a TV show on Saturday mornings in the mid 1950's. He was very funny and very hip for the time. He had "Jerry Mahoney'' & Knucklehaed Smif as his main dummy characters, and he didn't move his lips! I had no idea he later worked for Disney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcrusho Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 He was good in 12 Angry men too... The original movie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLO Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 he played the hippie director Skip Farnum in the Brady Bunch episode where he "discovers" the Bradys in a supermarket parking lot and decides to use them in a laundry detergent commercial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLO Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 man, this guy was all over the 70's Saturday morning cartoon map. I wonder if him and Scatman Crothers hung out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Very good link to his career and accomplishments: click here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Wow, very sad news indeed. Paul Winchell did so many voices on cartoons, but will always be best remembered as Tigger. John Fiedler of course is best known for the voice Piglet, but I will also remember his roles in 12 Angry Men & The Odd Couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Frank Thomas, Thurl Ravenscroft, Paul Winchell, & John Fiedler. SIGH It's sad seeing all of these Disney veterans leave us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Wow, very sad news indeed. Paul Winchell did so many voices on cartoons, but will always be best remembered as Tigger. John Fiedler of course is best known for the voice Piglet, but I will also remember his roles in 12 Angry Men & The Odd Couple. 369396[/snapback] Feidler also was one of the characters in the group sessions on the Bob Newhart show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardFan Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 What misguided priorities this country has. Winchell patents the artificial heart yet becomes rich and famous being a dummy operator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 What misguided priorities this country has. Winchell patents the artificial heart yet becomes rich and famous being a dummy operator. 369433[/snapback] And Hedy Lamarr... "Hedwig Keisler Markey, a.k.a. glamorous Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, (not to be confused with Hedley Lamarr of Blazing Saddles fame), made a single but significant engineering contribution to today's microwave wireless networks. At her Austrian husband Fritz Mandl's armament company, she observed that radio-guided torpedoes were susceptible to jamming. Leaving der Vaterland in order to avoid personal participation in the Holocaust, she later obtained a secret U.S. patent on the idea of frequency hopping, shared with artist George Antheil. Their scheme used a mechanical device similar to the guts of a player piano to modulate the RF signal. Stonewalled by the good-old-boys of the Pentagon, Ms. Keisler's invention was not put to use by the military until the mid 1950s, after the patent expired. However, her work is regarded as the basis for all spread-spectrum techniques, including those used in today's wireless networks." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Feidler also was one of the characters in the group sessions on the Bob Newhart show. 369431[/snapback] And on countless sitcoms and TV shows. He was the villan in the Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold" where Scotty was accused of murder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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