BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Disney's Tigger voice dies at 82
"Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, who was the voice of Tigger in Disney's Winnie the Pooh films, has died aged 82.
He was a popular children's TV host in the US, and first voiced Tigger in 1968 in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which won an Academy Award.
Winchell also voiced Gargamel in The Smurfs and Boomer in The Fox and the Hound, as well as other Disney and Hanna-Barbera productions." (more at link)
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He was also an inventor, patenting an artificial heart in 1963.
His other patents included a disposable razor, a flameless cigarette lighter and an invisible garter belt.
Winchell last performed as Tigger in 1999, in Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving."
He was a popular children's TV host in the US, and first voiced Tigger in 1968 in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which won an Academy Award.
Winchell also voiced Gargamel in The Smurfs and Boomer in The Fox and the Hound, as well as other Disney and Hanna-Barbera productions." (more at link)
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He was also an inventor, patenting an artificial heart in 1963.
His other patents included a disposable razor, a flameless cigarette lighter and an invisible garter belt.
Winchell last performed as Tigger in 1999, in Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving."
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