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2	[[caption-width-right:305:Paul Winchell with Jerry Mahoney.]]
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4	Paul Winchell (born Paul Wilchinsky; December 21, 1922 – June 24, 2005) was an American ventriloquist, voice actor and inventor from New York City.
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6	His best-known animation voice roles include Tigger of Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh]]'' films, Dick Dastardly of ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'', and Gargamel and Baby Smurf of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981''. Winchell also invented the artificial heart and, in his later years, produced museum-quality paintings.
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8	His daughter, Creator/AprilWinchell, is a well-known voice actress in her own right, and used to run the now-discontinued comedy blog Regretsy.com.
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12	* CompilationMovie: Winchell starred in the 1960 film ''Film/StopLookAndLaugh'' with both Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. The movie though is better known from multiple clips from various shorts of Film/TheThreeStooges.
13	* GameShowHost: He worked with his puppet, Jerry Mahoney, on the Creator/{{NBC}} children's game show ''Runaround'' (produced by [[Creator/MerrillHeatter Heatter-Quigley]], which also co-produced ''Wacky Races'' {which was originally planned to have a live-action game show segment}) in 1968.
14	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Two of which can easily fall into Hey, It's That Voice! His Tigger voice was used on ''Series/TheBananaSplits'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges,'' while his Gargamel voice was previously used for Dick Dastardly.
15	* MissingEpisode: Tragically, all the surviving episodes of the show ''Winchell/Mahoney Time'' were lost when the studio, Metromedia (which later evolved into Creator/{{Fox}}), vindictively destroyed all the tapes during a syndication dispute.
16	* SadClown: Winchell had a troubled life off the stage, as revealed in his autobiography. He suffered through an abusive childhood, was involved in multiple strained marriages, and battled depression throughout his life (culminating in a breakdown which saw him briefly institutionalized), while his relationship with his own children was so strained that they were not immediately notified of his death in 2005.
17	* TenorBoy: Paul Winchell is known for using his high tenor voice as the characters.
18	* {{Ventriloquism}}: Winchell was regarded as a master of the form, with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff.
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