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Frank Marshall (born Frank Marzalkiewicz on March 9, 1900; died October 10, 1969) was a professional ventriloquist dummy, marionette and Punch and Judy maker who created many of the most famous ventriloquist dummies used during the United States's vaudeville entertainment era through the Golden Age of Television.
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 ...
Winchell's best-known ventriloquist dummies were Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. Mahoney was carved by Chicago-based figure maker Frank Marshall. Sometime later Winchell had basswood copies of Jerry's head made by a commercial duplicating service. One became the upgraded Jerry Mahoney that is seen primarily throughout Winchell's television ...
A 1938 magazine article reported that “When Edgar Bergen was a high school student in Chicago in the post-war [WWI] period, he got the notion that he wanted a dummy so that he could become a ventriloquist. He came to Mr. [Charlie] Mack’s workshop who assigned [Frank] Marshall to the problem.
Veteran director and producer Frank Marshall talks about the halted production of "Jurassic World: Dominion" and filmmaking after COVID-19.
This is a list of notable ventriloquists and their best known characters. It is ordered by nationality or country in which they were notable in an alphabetical order, and then by alphabetical order of surname.
The documentary is a co-production of Jigsaw Productions and the Kennedy/Marshall Company; its producers include Alex Gibney, Frank Marshall, Aly Parker, Michele Farinola, Tom Mackay and Jay Landers.
voiced by Dallas McKennon, Thurl Ravenscroft, Lee Marshall and now Tex Brashear: Cliffy the Clown: Kellogg's Honey Smacks cereal: 1953–1956: Smaxey the Seal: 1957–1961: Quick Draw McGraw: 1961–1965: The Smackin' Bandit: 1965: half-mule half-kangaroo who kissed everyone in sight The Smackin' Brothers: 1966–early 1970s