Chuck McCann
Chuck McCann was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on September 2nd, 1934 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 83, Chuck McCann biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Charles John Thomas McCann (September 2, 1934 – April 8, 2018) was an American actor, voice artist, puppeteer, and television presenter.
He was best known for his contributions to children's television show design and animation, as well as his own show The Chuck McCann Show and several parody style albums.
Personal life
McCann was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a bandleader/singer father. Hugh Hefner's close friend and a regular at the Playboy Mansion.
Career
McCann rose to regional prominence by apprenticing on a number of other children's shows, such as Captain Kangaroo in the 1960s. McCann was one of the best-selling The First Family, a 1960s LP record album that mocked newly elected President John F. Kennedy and his associates.
McCann hosted comedy/variety TV puppet shows in the New York area until 1975, starring Paul Ashley Puppets. They produced The Puppet Hotel for WNTA-TV, Channel 13, followed by Laurel & Hardy & Chuck, Let's Have Fun, and Channel 11's The Chuck McCann Show, The Great Bombo's Magic Cartoon Circus Lunchtime Exhibition, and Chuck McCann's Laurel and Hardy Show for WNEW-TV, Channel 5; and finally, The Chuck McCann Show, The Chuck McCann Show, Channel 13; and Chuck McCann In addition, Chuck was the comedic sidekick on WPIX's long-running rock music showcase, The Clay Cole Exhibition. During this period, McCann appeared at many New York city venues, including Palisades Amusement Park and Freedomland, USA, to welcome and entertain children. McCann, a yo-yo contest, shot many Halloween specials, and performed with other children's show hosts and appeared with Clay Cole at the park's Moon Bowl entertainment venue, which featured celebrity singers and other performers. In the book Freedomland, The Definitive History of McCann (Theme Park Press, 2019), the author highlights McCann's ties to Freedomland.
He appeared in the 1968 film The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and appeared on CBS's The Garry Moore Show regularly by the 1960s.
He began his animation career by playing everything from Bob Kane's Cool McCool to Sonny the Cuckoo Bird ("I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs") to Rice Krispies ("Ripe for Rice Krispies!") General Mills' commercials are included. He had even been one of the principals of Turn-On, producer George Schlatter's offshoot of Laugh-In.
McCann's life and work in the 1970s shifted west, and he migrated to Los Angeles. He made regular guest appearances on television shows such as Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Columbo, The Rockford Files, and The Bob Newhart Show. He appeared in the 1973 made-for-TV film The Girl Most Likely To... and was a regular on Norman Lear's All That Glitters.
In addition,, he co-starred with Bob Denver in CBS's Saturday-morning sitcom Far Out Space Nuts, which he co-created. He gained notoriety in a long line of Right Guard commercials: he was the enthusiastic neighbor with the catch phrase "Hi, guy!" Bill Fiore, the opposite actor, appeared on the other hand of a shared medicine cabinet.
In an episode called Murder on Stage 17 in which he played an ex-comedian turned murderer, Wally Stone appeared in Season Two of Starsky and Hutch. McCann's talent as an actor was brought to the forefront in this episode, and he was able to portray various characters throughout the series.
Oliver Hardy appeared in commercials for various goods (teaming with Jim MacGeorge as Stan Laurel), and for a few years, he appeared on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara in Kris Kringle. He and John McCabe were two of the five founding members of The Sons of the Desert, an appreciation society for the work of Laurel and Hardy in 1965. In 1974, he appeared in Kojak.
McCann's motion picture career took a turn back to comedy in They Went That-A-Way (1978), with multiple supporting roles and a co-starring role (with Tim Conway).
The Projectionist (1971), Jennifer on My Mind (1971), Foul Play (1978), C.H.M.P.S. (1979) The Comeback Trail (1982), Hamburger (1982), Thrashin' (1986), and Herbie Rides Again (1974), where he appeared in Loostgarten Wrecking Company.
He appeared in Cameron's Closet, a 1988 horror film. He appeared in Mel Brooks' 1993 comedy film Robin Hood: A Villager and Also an Innkeeper in another Brooks production, Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
McCann and Paul Ashley were reunited in 1980 for two TV show pilots: Tiny TV, a comedy/variety puppet show directed at adults for the cable television market, and LBS Children's Theater, a children's film anthology exhibition on which McCann and the Paul Ashley Puppets were to premiere primetime animated TV specials and European cartoons, and European cartoon animations. However, Paul Ashley was forced to leave the programs because he was found to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Tiny TV never came to fruition, but LBS Children's Theater was selected for national syndication in 1983. Ashley didn't live long enough to watch the series on September 3, 1984, so McCann emceed the series alone.
McCann revived a number of his best sketches from his New York television days as interstitial material for a two-hour presentation of cartoons on KCOP-TV, Channel 13, Los Angeles, assisted by Bob Ridgely. McCann also appeared in several projects by The Walt Disney Company, including Dreamfinder in the theme park attraction Journey Into Imagination, as well as many characters from the 1988 animated film DuckTales.
McCann returned to daily children's television with Chuck McCann's Funstuff, which was created by fellow New York kid show legend Sonny Fox. On KHJ-TV, Chuck McCann's Funstuff was seen weekday mornings from Monday, September 18, 1989, to Friday, October 13, 1989.
McCann co-founded and performed in Yarmy's Army, a group of comedians and character actors of his generation who gathered regularly to support Don Adams' brother Dick Yarmy, who was dying of cancer. Harvey Korman, Shelley Berman, Tim Conway, and others were among the group's members.
Since Yarmy's death, the group gathered together to celebrate their achievements, but they found it increasingly difficult for them to find steady employment. They appeared in various group-directed performances in select venues around the country in lieu of having monthly dinners.
In 1992's King's Quest VI: Playing Jollo, Bookworm, Bump-On-A-Log, and Woof, McCann's voice work in cartoons, continued voice work for cartoons, including playing Jollo, Bookworm, Bump-On-A-Log, and Woof. Gone Tomorrow, Today, Gone Tomorrow. The Thing in the Fantastic Four and Hulk animated film, as well as the villain in another animated version, Iron Man, was one of his best-known voiceover roles.
In Disney's The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh, Heff Heffalump, a recurring not-villainous character. On the second season of G.I., he was also the voice of Leatherneck. Joe is a guy who loves to cook. He has been in commercials at Christmas time since the 1990s and into the new millennium, and even TV/movie gigs (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch).
McCann appeared in They Call Him Sasquatch (2003) and Dorf da Bingo King (with his old pal, Tim Conway). He performed The Powerpuff Girls and Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas. He ventured into the world of video games, including voices for True Crime: New York City. He appeared in The Aristocrats (2005), a live rendition of a "clean" version of the "dirty" parody in the film's setting.
Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Floyd's father appeared on The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd in 2006-07. In addition, he has appeared on Boston Legal twice, including the two-hour series finale in December 2008. McCann appeared in Adventures in Odyssey, as well as Navarro and Buck in Random! Cartoons are popular.
In 2013, McCann appeared on Adventure Time, Mayor Grafton on The Garfield Show, and Duckworth, Bouncer Beagle, and Burger Beagle were among DuckTales Remastered's highlights. In the 2016 reboot of The Powerpuff Boys, he reprised the role of the Amoeba Boys. McCann produced "Trump: The Last Family," a modern sequel to the best-selling The First Family LP of the 1960s, a podcast series starring Kevin Sean Michaels.