Nickname:	Winch
Known for:	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!, Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, The Arist
Birth name:	Paul Wilchen
Birthday:	21 December 1922, New York, New York, USA

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Winchell was an amateur medical inventor who patented an artificial human heart. His puppet side-kicks, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, are now in the Smithsonian Institution. Father of five children: Stephanie and Stacy (with first wife, Dottie Morse); April Winchell (with second wife, Nina Russel); and has adopted Larry and Keith (through his third wife, Jean Freeman). He's also got three grandchildren. Second wife, Nina Russel, was an actress. Their child April Winchell was born in 1960, and has done her father proud by becoming a top-notch vocal artist of her own. She has voiced "Clarabelle Cow", "Baby Herman's Mother", "Peg" in the "Goof Troop" (1992) series, and "Cruelle De Vil" for Disney; and contributed voices for such TV shows as "The Simpsons" (1989), and films such as Men in Black (1997). Named television's most versatile performer by Look magazine in 1952 and 1953. Held patents on over 30 devices, a flameless cigarette lighter, an invisible garter belt, a method of breeding Tilapia fish so that poorer countries could feed their citizens, and an indicator to show when frozen food had gone bad after a power outage. As for his major achievement, the artificial heart, which he built in 1963, was donated to the University of Utah for research. The first implant on a human happened in 1982.Paul Winchell invented the disposable razor which he neglected to get a patent on. when friends told him "Who would buy a razor just to throw it away?" Paul abandoned the idea, later to Winch's dismay, a major razor company proved Paul was right! Became the voice for Tigger in 1968 for the Walt Disney Company's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) which earned an Academy Award for best animated short. He retired the vocal role after 33 years with "Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving" in 1999 at the age of 76. Jim Cummings, who voiced Pooh since the death of Sterling Holloway, took over the role of Tigger. Credits his British born third wife Jean who came up with Tigger's signature phrase "TTFN," or "Ta-ta-for now." Published the book "Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit" in 1954. Died one day before the death of John Fiedler, who was the voice of Piglet in the animated Winnie the Pooh specials and films. Was the voice for the "scrubbing bubbles" mascot for Dow Bathroom Cleaner, and after Dow sold its consumer products line to S.C. Johnson, the product was renamed to Scrubbing Bubbles.

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