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Paul Winchell (né Wilchinsky; December 21, 1922 – June 24, 2005) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, humanitarian, and inventor whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1950 to 1954, he hosted The Paul Winchell Show , which also used two other titles during its prime time run on NBC : The Speidel Show , and What's My ...
Paul Winchell As author Kelly Asbury points out, “Paul Winchell really was determined to get the dummy off his knees. He knew if he wanted to set himself apart from what people usually associated with ventriloquists, the little wooden dummy on a ventriloquist’s knee, he had to change something.”
Paul Winchell is the paternal figure to Jerry Mahoney, a juvenile character. Jerry hates academic studies, and tries various tricks to skip school: darkening his window to simulate nighttime, putting spots on his face to show illness, and manipulating a thermometer to present a dangerously high temperature.
In 1945, Nelson asked famed Chicago ventriloquist figure maker Frank Marshall to make him a professional-quality dummy. Marshall, who had made Paul Winchell's Jerry Mahoney, would do this only after seeing the ventriloquist's work. He came to one of Nelson's theatre performances and was impressed, so sold Nelson a custom-made dummy, which he ...
Ventriloquist Paul Winchell was host of the program, which featured mentalist Joseph Dunninger. [1] Winchell and his dummy, Jerry Mahoney, provided comedy; Dunninger performed mind-reading acts with guests who were sometimes at sites away from the studio. [2]
Pitts represented a who’s-who of classic voice talent, including Orson Welles, Casey Kasem, June Foray, Wolfman Jack, Mel Blanc, Paul Winchell, Janet Waldo, Gary Owens, and many more. He was ...
The program was hosted by ventriloquist and voice actor Paul Winchell, airing Saturday mornings on NBC from September 9, 1972, to September 1, 1973. [1] Paul would frequently use his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and/or Knucklehead Smiff on his program. The program was announced by Kenny Williams (as most Heatter-Quigley shows were), with music by ...
The museum's collection contains more than 1,000 ventriloquist figures from 20 countries, as well as hundreds of photographs and other pieces of memorabilia related to ventriloquism. The collection includes replicas of figures used by Edgar Bergen , Paul Winchell , and Shari Lewis , and authentic performance pieces used by Jimmy Nelson , Willie ...