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Apr 13, 2013 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime friend. He was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of ...
Jonathan Harshman Winters (November 11, 1925 – May 11, 2013) [2] was an American comedian, television, stage, voice, movie actor, and artist. Winters had appeared in several television shows and in movies. He was recently known for voicing Papa Smurf in the 2011 movie The Smurfs. In The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol, he was replaced by Jack Angel .
In his nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, Jonathan Winters (1925-2013) reminisces about his early days in Ohio and New York and recalls some of his first television appearances on The Garry Moore Show and The Tonight Show, hosted by Steve Allen. Winters talks about the evolution of some of his well-known characters, including "Maude Frickert," "Elwood P. Suggins," and "King Kwasi," and ...
Apr 12, 2013 · Jonathan Winters, a man for whom the phrase “a comedians’ comedian” might well have been invented, has died at the age of 87.Winters, who dropped out of school to enlist in the Marines and ...
Apr 12, 2013 · Jonathan Winters, known to one generation for his 1960s comedy albums, frequent Tonight Show with Johnny Carson appearances and comic movie characters, and to another generation as Robin Williams ...
