LOS ANGELES – Paul Winchell (search), a ventriloquist, inventor and children's TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

Paul Winchell -- the voice of Tigger in "Winnie the Pooh" animated features for more than three decades, a ventriloquist who became a fixture in early children's television along with his dummies, ...

Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in “Winnie the Pooh” features for more than three decades and a versatile ventriloquist who became a fixture in early children’s television along with his dummies ...

Paul Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children’s TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh’s animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82. Winchell died Friday ...

(Buena Vista, VHS $24.99, DVD $29.99, rated G) 2000. Directed by Jun Falkenstein; narrated by John Hurt; voices by Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Ken Sansom, John Fiedler, Peter Cullen, Kath Soucie and ...