Paul Winchell (born Paul Wilchinsky; December 21, 1922 –
June 24, 2005) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, humanitarian,
and inventor whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1950 to 1954,
he hosted The Paul Winchell Show, which also
used two other titles during its prime time run on NBC, The Speidel Show,
and What's My Name?. From
1965–1968, Winchell hosted the children's television series, Winchell-Mahoney
Time.Winchell made guest appearances on Emmy Award-winning television
series from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s, such as Perry Mason, The Dick Van Dyke Show, McMillan
& Wife, The Donna Reed Show, and two appearances as
Homer Winch on The Beverly Hillbillies in 1962.
In animation, he was the original voice of Tigger, Dick
Dastardly, Gargamel, and other characters.Winchell, who had medical
training, was also an inventor, becoming the first person to build and patent a
mechanical artificial heart, implantable in the chest
cavity (US Patent #3097366). He has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work
in television.
Dennis
Morgan (born Earl
Stanley Morner, December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American
actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the
name under which he gained his greatest fame. According to one obituary, he was
"a twinkly-eyed handsome charmer with a shy smile and a pleasant tenor
voice in carefree and inconsequential Warner Bros musicals of the forties,
accompanied by Jack Carson." Another said, "for all his undoubted
star potential, Morgan was perhaps cast once too often as the likeable,
clean-cut, easy-going but essentially uncharismatic young man who typically
loses his girl to someone more sexually magnetic."[ David Shipman said he
"was comfortable, good-looking, well-mannered: the antithesis of the
gritty Bogart." Morgan
was born in the village of Prentice in Price County in
northern Wisconsin, the son of Grace J. (née Vandusen) and Frank Edward
Morner. He was of Swedish descent on his father's side. He
enrolled at Carroll College in
Waukesha, Wisconsin as a member of the 1930 graduating class. He was awarded
the Carroll College Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1983. He
began his career as a radio announcer in Milwaukee and went on to broadcast
Green Bay Packers football games. He became a radio singer in Chicago.