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Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.
I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.
I think television defeats ventriloquism.
On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.
Ventriloquism today is in a slump.... (more Paul Winchell quotes)
Winchell was an amateur medical inventor who patented an artificial human heart.
Ventriloquist star from 1950s and 1960s television and films.
His puppet side-kicks, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, are now in the Smithsonian Institution.
Skilled voice-over artist for many Disney and Hanna-Barbera films.
Father of five children: Stephanie and Stacy (with first wife, Dottie Morse); April Winchell (with second wife, Nina Russel); and ha... (more Paul Winchell trivia)
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