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Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Harshman Winters III was an American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist. He started performing as a stand-up comedian before transitioning his career to acting in film and television. Winters received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the American Academy of Achievement in 1973,…
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Born 11 November 1925 · Died 11 April 2013 · Q4538
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2026· 4 entries
“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.”
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“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
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“They follow me around pretty much all day and night.”
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2013· 1 entry
Died 2013-04-11.
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2009· 1 entry
Winters's wife of more than 60 years, Eileen, died at the age of 84 after a 20-year battle with breast cancer
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2008· 1 entry
Winters was presented with a Pioneer TV Land Award by Robin Williams
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2006· 1 entry
“He soon used video technology”
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2005· 1 entry
And 2006, Winters appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live
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2004· 1 entry
Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time ranked Winters as the No
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2002· 1 entry
Was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Q
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2000· 1 entry
Winters appeared in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (1999).
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“So consequently it was a strange kind of arrangement.”
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Was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, becoming the second recipient
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1996· 1 entry
Winters played himself in Bloopy's Buddies, a children's TV series on PBS designed to teach children about health and nutrition and to encourage them to exercise
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Winters appeared as a fired factory worker (credited as "Grizzled Man") in The Flintstones
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1991· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Davis Rules (1991).
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And 1992, he had a supporting role on Davis Rules, a sitcom that lasted two seasons (25 episodes), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
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Winters won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Gunny Davis in the short-lived sitcom Davis Rules
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1987· 1 entry
Winters was featured in NFL Films' The NFL TV Follies
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1985· 1 entry
Among other voice roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s
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1981· 1 entry
Was a guest on the short-lived comedy series Aloha Paradise
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album for The Little Prince (1975).
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And the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award (1963).
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1960· 3 entries
The American Academy of Achievement in 1973, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1999
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With unprecedented frenetic energy, Winters made obscure references to his illness and hospitalization during his stand-up routines, most famously on his 1960 comedy album, The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters.
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Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label including The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters (1960)
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1957· 1 entry
Performed in the first color television show, a 15-minute routine sponsored by Tums
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1956· 1 entry
When RCA broadcast the first public demonstration of color videotape on The Jonathan Winters Show
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1954· 1 entry
On Chance of a Lifetime, hosted by Dennis James on the DuMont Television Network, where Winters again appeared as "Johnny Winters"
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1946· 1 entry
“Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels”
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-11-11.
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