PAUL WINCHELL, VOICE OF TIGGER, DIES.

[DoogieB]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:23am

https://www.broadwayworld.com/l.cfm?id=76990

Updated On: 6/26/05 at 10:23 AM

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:26am

NOT TIGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:27am

sad.

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:29am

*gasp* Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwz

[Aigoo]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:42am

Noooo..I loved Tigger. He was my favorite character.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:46am

so sad, truly a great artist

http://www.paulwinchell.com/

[Elphaba]

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.

[DoogieB]

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.

Updated On: 6/26/05 at 02:22 PM

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:37pm

Shoot. I really like Tigger's voice! Now it's going to be a worthless replacement...

[TonyInATL]

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]

Posted: 6/27/05 at 5:19am

Coincidentally, 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.