PAUL WINCHELL, VOICE OF TIGGER, DIES.
PAUL WINCHELL, VOICE OF TIGGER, DIES.
#0PAUL WINCHELL, VOICE OF TIGGER, DIES.
Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:23am
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#2re: Noo
Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:27am
sad. 
Less is more
Ugly is beautiful
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Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp
"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo
"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK
stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#5re: Noo
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:46am
so sad, truly a great artist
http://www.paulwinchell.com/
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#6re: Noo
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:48am
amazing, I never knew this
Something of a renaissance man, Winchell was also an inventor who held 30 patents, including one for an early artificial heart he built in 1963 and then donated to the University of Utah for research. Dr. Robert Jarvik and other University of Utah researchers later became well-known for the Jarvik-7, which was implanted into patients after 1982.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#7PAUL WINCHELL, VOICE OF TIGGER, DIES.
Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:22pm
That's awesome (the inventor thing).
But this is really sad now, I have to break the news to my family.
Tigger was an icon.
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gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#8PAUL WINCHELL, VOICE OF TIGGER, DIES.
Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:37pm
Shoot. I really like Tigger's voice! Now it's going to be a worthless replacement...
What the puck?!
TonyInATL
Stand-by Joined: 8/28/04
#9PAUL WINCHELL, VOICE OF TIGGER, DIES.
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:38am
More sad news from the world of Pooh. This just in, from the New York Times. Tigger and Piglet gone on consecutive days. Goodbye, Mr. Winchell and Mr. Fiedler. We'll miss you. The Hundred-Acre Wood just won't be the same.
John Fiedler, 80, Stage Actor and Film Voice of Pooh's Piglet, Dies
By MICHELLE O'DONNELL
Published: June 27, 2005
John Fiedler, who played character roles in celebrated dramas on Broadway and in Hollywood but gained lasting fame among young audiences as the voice of Piglet in Walt Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh films, died on Saturday. He was 80.
His death was confirmed by his brother, James.
Mr. Fiedler had appeared in the Broadway production of "A Raisin in the Sun" and had played a juror on film in the drama "Twelve Angry Men" when, in the 1960's, his voice earned him the role of Piglet, the kind-hearted worrier who is Winnie-the-Pooh's best friend.
"Walt Disney heard it on a program and said, 'That's Piglet,' " James Fiedler recalled.
John Fiedler's natural speaking voice was higher than most men's, his brother said, but he still had to raise it considerably to achieve the high-pitch of the little pink pig. Mr. Fiedler continued to play this part in later life, most recently this year in "Pooh's Heffalump Movie"; last year, he did "Winnie-the-Pooh: Springtime with Roo," and in 2003, "Piglet's Big Movie."
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#10PAUL WINCHELL, VOICE OF TIGGER, DIES.
Posted: 6/27/05 at 5:19amCoincidentally, John Fiedler also appeared as a guest on a few episodes of BEWITCHED. He was one of those character actors who seemed to pop up everywhere.
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