“Dummy Days -- An Evening With Paul Winchell,” featuring an interview with the veteran ventriloquist and a screening of clips from his vintage shows from the 1950s and ‘60s, will be Saturday at 8 p.m.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paul Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children's TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

Paul Winchell, 82, an early television ventriloquist who provided goofy voice-overs for such animated characters as Winnie the Pooh's friend Tigger and who invented a version of the artificial heart, ...

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Paul Winchell, an entertainer for more than six decades who rose to fame as a ventriloquist before becom-ing the voice of Winnie the Pooh’s friend Tigger in Disney animated films and TV shows, died in ...

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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Back in the early 1950s, a ventriloquist named Paul Winchell had a TV show that featured his dummy named Jerry Mahoney. The program was a hit and is ...

Paul Winchell, an entertainer for more than six decades who rose to fame as a ventriloquist before becom-ing the voice of Winnie the Pooh’s friend Tigger in Disney animated films and TV shows, died in ...

(Los Angeles, California-AP) June 26, 2005 - Paul Winchell, ventriloquist, children's television show host and long-time voice behind Tigger in animated versions of "Winnie the Pooh," has died. He was ...