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Actor Born: November 11, 1925 in Dayton, OH Biography:"Pound for pound, "Jonathan Winters" is the funniest man on earth." These words, spoken by talk show host "Jack Paar" in the early '60s, were not chosen lightly. After war service and graduation from Kenyon College, "Winters" began his career on a radio station in his hometown of Dayton, OH. The rotund comedian was supposed to merely introduce the records and announce the temperature, but ever so gradually his irrepressible ad-libs and improvisations took over the show. His TV career began on CBS' daytime "The Garry Moore Show", where he introduced such imperishable characters as freewheeling senior citizen Maudie Frickett and doltish Elwood P. Suggins. He was a regular on the 1955 summer series And Here's the Show, and in 1956 landed his own 15-minute NBC series (the first network program to be regularly videotaped). Though never less than side-splittingly funny on camera, "Winters" was plagued by... Full Biography
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