Charles John Thomas McCann (September 2, 1934 – April 8, 2018) was an American actor, comedian, puppeteer, commercial presenter and television host. He was best known for his work in presenting children's television programming and animation, as well as his own program ''The Chuck McCann Show'' and he also recorded comedy parody style albums.
Career
Early work
McCann worked his way up to regional star status by apprenticing on a number of other children's shows, such as ''
Captain Kangaroo
''Captain Kangaroo'' is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for 29 years, from 1955 to 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program ...
'' in the 1960s. The best-selling ''
The First Family'', an early 1960s LP record album which lampooned the newly elected
United States President
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John F. Kennedy
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and his family, included McCann among its voices.
Until 1975, McCann hosted comedy/variety TV puppet shows in the New York area wit
Paul Ashley featuring th
Paul Ashley Puppets Together, they did ''The Puppet Hotel'' for
WNTA-TV
WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as "Thirteen" (stylized as "THIRTEEN"), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the ...
, Channel 13; then ''Laurel & Hardy & Chuck'', ''Let's Have Fun'', and ''The Chuck McCann Show'' for
WPIX
WPIX (channel 11) is a television station in New York City. Owned by Mission Broadcasting, it is operated under a local marketing agreement (LMA) by Nexstar Media Group, making it a ''de facto'' owned-and-operated station and flagship (broadcas ...
, Channel 11; and finally, ''The Chuck McCann Show'', ''The Great Bombo's Magic Cartoon Circus Lunchtime Show'', and ''Chuck McCann's
Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy were a British-American Double act, comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood cinema, Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–19 ...
Show'' for
WNEW-TV
WNYW (channel 5) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside Secaucus, New Jersey–licensed MyNetworkTV flagship ...
, Channel 5. In addition, Chuck was the comedy sidekick on WPIX's long-running rock music showcase, ''
The Clay Cole Show
''The Clay Cole Show'' (1959–1967) was a rock music television show based in New York City, hosted by Clay Cole.
History
First broadcast on WNTA-TV (now WNET) in September 1959 as ''Rate the Records'', within two months the format was changed, ...
''. During this time, McCann appeared at many New York area venues, including
Palisades Amusement Park
Palisades Amusement Park was a 38-acre amusement park located in Bergen County, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York City. It was located atop the New Jersey Palisades lying partly in Cliffside Park and partly in Fort Lee. The pa ...
and
Freedomland U.S.A., to meet and entertain children. At Freedomland, McCann hosted a yo-yo contest, filmed several Halloween specials, filmed a WPIX Freedomland special with other children's show hosts and appeared with Clay Cole at the park's Moon Bowl entertainment venue that featured celebrity singers and other performers. McCann's ties to Freedomland are featured in the book ''Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive History'' (Theme Park Press, 2019).
By the end of the 1960s, he had appeared in the 1968 film ''
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state ...
'' and performed regularly on
CBS
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's ''
The Garry Moore Show
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''.
He began an animation acting career, doing everything from
Bob Kane
Robert Kane (born Robert Kahn ; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created Batman (with Bill Finger) and most early related characters for DC comics. He was inducted into the comi ...
's ''
Cool McCool'' to
Sonny the Cuckoo Bird
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("I'm cuckoo for
Cocoa Puffs
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" and "Ripe for
Rice Krispies
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!") in
commercial
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* a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television)
** Radio advertisement
** Television advertisement
* (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...
s for
General Mills
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. He had even been one of the stars of ''
Turn-On
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''Turn-Ons sole broadcast ...
'', producer
George Schlatter
George Schlatter (born December 31, 1932) is an American television producer and director, best known for '' Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' and founder of the American Comedy Awards.
For his work on television, Schlatter has a star on the Hollywo ...
's offshoot of ''
Laugh-In
''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' (often simply referred to as ''Laugh-In'') is an American sketch comedy television program that ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network, hosted by comedians Dan ...
''.
1970s television
In the 1970s, McCann's life and career shifted west, and he relocated to Los Angeles. He made frequent guest appearances on network television shows including ''
Little House on the Prairie
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'', ''
Bonanza
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'', ''
Columbo
''Columbo'' () is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC f ...
'', ''
The Rockford Files
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'' and ''
The Bob Newhart Show
''The Bob Newhart Show'' is an American sitcom television series produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978, with a total of 142 half-hour episodes over six seasons. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psy ...
''. He appeared in the 1973 made-for-TV movie ''
The Girl Most Likely to...'' and was a regular on
Norman Lear
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's ''
All That Glitters
All That Glitters or All That Glisters may refer to:
* '' All that glitters is not gold'', a well-known saying
Literature
* ''All That Glitters'' (novel), by V. C. Andrews
* ''All That Glitters'', a novel by Michael Anthony
* ''All That Glitte ...
''.
In addition, he co-starred with
Bob Denver
Robert Osbourne Denver (January 9, 1935 – September 2, 2005) was an American comedic actor who portrayed Gilligan on the 1964–1967 television series ''Gilligan's Island'', and beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 series ''The Ma ...
in CBS's Saturday-morning sitcom ''
Far Out Space Nuts
''Far Out Space Nuts'' is a Sid and Marty Krofft children's television series that aired in 1975 for one season, and produced 15 episodes. It was one of only two Krofft series produced exclusively for CBS (the second being 1984's ''Pryor's Plac ...
'', which he co-created. The 1970s also brought him fame in a long-running series of commercials for
Right Guard
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antiperspirant: he was the enthusiastic neighbor with the catch phrase "Hi, guy!" who appeared on the other side of a shared medicine cabinet, opposite actor
Bill Fiore
William Fiore (January 1, 1940 – October 3, 2014) was an American television, film and voice actor. Over his lengthy career, he appeared in television shows such as '' The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', '' Tales from the Darkside'', '' Law & Order'' a ...
.
McCann appeared as Wally Stone in Season Two of Starsky and Hutch in an episode named Murder on Stage 17 in which he played an ex-comedian turned murderer. In this episode, McCann's talent as an actor was spotlighted and he was able to portray various characters throughout the episode.
McCann impersonated
Oliver Hardy in commercials for various products (teaming with Jim MacGeorge as
Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was one half of the comedy double act, duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Ha ...
), and for a few years, he played the holiday-season recurring role of Kris Kringle on the NBC soap opera ''
Santa Barbara''. In 1965, he and
John McCabe John McCabe may refer to:
*John McCabe (composer) (1939–2015), British composer and classical pianist
*John McCabe (writer) (1920–2005), Shakespearean scholar and biographer
*Christopher John McCabe
Christopher John McCabe (born 20 Oc ...
were two of the five founding members of the now worldwide society of
The Sons of the Desert
The Sons of the Desert is an international fraternal organization devoted to the lives and films of comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The group takes its name from a fictional lodge that Laurel and Hardy belonged to in the 1933 film ''Son ...
, an appreciation club for the works of Laurel and Hardy. He had a role in ''
Kojak
''Kojak'' is an American action crime drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theodopolis "Theo" Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular ''Cannon'' series, it ...
'' in 1974.
Film
After ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'', McCann's motion picture career took a turn back into comedy with many supporting roles and a co-starring turn (with
Tim Conway
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. From 1966 to 2012 he appeared in more than 100 TV shows, TV series and films. Among his more notable roles, he portrayed the ...
) in ''
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
''They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way'' is a 1978 slapstick comedy film co-directed by Stuart E. McGowan and Edward Montagne and written by and starring Tim Conway.
Premise
Dewey and Wallace are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor t ...
'' (1978).
His most notable post-''Hunter'' films were ''
The Projectionist
''The Projectionist'' is a 1970 American comedy film written and directed by Harry Hurwitz that was the first feature film with Rodney Dangerfield as an actor. The film employed the use of superimposition of older motion pictures, the first time ...
'' (1971), ''
Jennifer on My Mind'' (1971), ''
Linda Lovelace for President
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'' (1975), ''
Foul Play'' (1978), ''
C.H.O.M.P.S.
''C.H.O.M.P.S.'' is a 1979 American comic science fiction family film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and directed by Don Chaffey.
Plot
Brian Foster (Wesley Eure), a young inventor, creates a robotic dog for use as part of a home protecti ...
'' (1979), ''
The Comeback Trail'' (1982), ''
Hamburger: The Motion Picture'' (1986), ''
Thrashin'
''Thrashin (released in the Philippines as ''Challenge to Win: Thrashin) is a 1986 American skater drama film directed by David Winters and starring Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, and Pamela Gidley.
The film features appearances from many famous ...
'' (1986) and ''
Herbie Rides Again
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'' (1974), where he played Loostgarten, president of Loostgarten Wrecking Company.
He had a supporting role in the 1988 horror film ''
Cameron's Closet
''Cameron's Closet'', also known as ''Cameron's Terror'', is a 1989 American supernatural horror film. The film was directed by Armand Mastroianni and stars Scott Curtis, Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Tab Hunter, Kim Lankford, Gary Hudson and Wil ...
''. He had a brief appearance in
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. He began h ...
' 1993 comedy film ''
Robin Hood: Men in Tights'' as a villager and also appeared as an innkeeper in another Brooks production; ''
Dracula: Dead and Loving It'' in 1995.
Return to roots
In 1980, McCann and Paul Ashley were reunited for a pair of TV show pilots: ''Tiny TV'', a satirical/variety puppet series aimed at adults for the cable market, and ''
LBS Children's Theater'', a children's film anthology show where McCann and the Paul Ashley Puppets were to introduce reruns of primetime animated TV specials and theatrical cartoons from Europe. However, Paul Ashley was forced to leave the projects when he proved to be suffering from
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens. It is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in short-term me ...
. ''Tiny TV'' never reached fruition, but ''LBS Children's Theater'' was picked up for national syndication in 1983. McCann
emceed the series alone because Ashley did not live long enough to see the show, having died on September 3, 1984.
In the 1980s, McCann reprised 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
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, Channel 13 in Los Angeles, assisted by Bob Ridgely. McCann also voiced characters for various projects by
The Walt Disney Company
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, such as Dreamfinder in the theme park attraction
Journey Into Imagination
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, and several characters including Duckworth, Burger Beagle and Bouncer Beagle in the 1987 animated series ''
DuckTales
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''.
In 1989, McCann returned to daily children's television one more time with ''Chuck McCann's Funstuff,'' produced by fellow New York kid show legend
Sonny Fox
Irwin "Sonny" Fox (June 17, 1925 – January 24, 2021) was an American television host and broadcaster who was the host of the children's television program, ''Wonderama''. Through his career, he had hosted other children's educational and ent ...
. ''Chuck McCann's Funstuff'' was seen weekday mornings on
KHJ-TV
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from Monday, September 18, 1989 until Friday, October 13, 1989.
1990s
In the 1990s, McCann co-founded and participated in Yarmy's Army, a group of comedians and character actors of his generation who gathered regularly to cheer up
Don Adams
Donald James Yarmy (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. In his five decades on television, he was best known as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the television situation comedy ''Ge ...
' brother
Dick Yarmy
Dick Yarmy (February 14, 1933 – May 5, 1992) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout the 1960s to the 1990s.
Biography
Yarmy was born in New York in 1933, son of William Yarmy and his wife, Cons ...
, who was dying of cancer. A group with a massive array of comic talent, its members included
Harvey Korman
Harvey Herschel Korman (February 15, 1927May 29, 2008) was an American actor and comedian who performed in television and film productions. His big break was being a featured performer on CBS' ''The Danny Kaye Show'', but he is best remembered f ...
,
Shelley Berman,
Tim Conway
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. From 1966 to 2012 he appeared in more than 100 TV shows, TV series and films. Among his more notable roles, he portrayed the ...
, and many others.
After Yarmy's death, the group stayed together to cheer themselves up since increasing age and health problems made it increasingly more difficult for them to get steady work. In addition to having monthly dinners, they performed in various group-directed shows in select venues around the country.
McCann continued voice work for cartoons, playing Jollo, Bookworm, Bump-On-A-Log, and Woof in 1992's ''
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow''. One of his best-known voiceover roles was
The Thing in the ''
Fantastic Four
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'' and ''
Hulk
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'' animated series, as well as the villain
Blizzard
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in another animated adaptation, ''
Iron Man
Iron Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. The charact ...
''.
He also played Heff Heffalump, a recurring not-so-villainous character in Disney's ''
The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh
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''. He was also the voice of Leatherneck on the second season of ''
G.I. Joe
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''. Throughout the 1990s and into the new millennium, he has been in commercials at
Christmas
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time, he has played
Santa Claus
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for one product or another—and TV/movie gigs (''
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
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'').
2000s–2010s
![Chuck McCann 2013 (crop 2)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Chuck_McCann_2013_%28crop_2%29.jpg)
In the 2000s, McCann appeared in ''They Call Him Sasquatch'' (2003) and ''Dorf da Bingo King'' (with his old pal,
Tim Conway
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. From 1966 to 2012 he appeared in more than 100 TV shows, TV series and films. Among his more notable roles, he portrayed the ...
). He supplied voices for ''
The Powerpuff Girls
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'' and ''
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
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''. He moved into the field of video games, providing voices for ''
True Crime: New York City''. He made an appearance in ''
The Aristocrats'' (2005), with an animated rendition of a "clean" version of the "dirty" joke that serves as the movie's subject.
In 2006-07 he made appearances on ''
The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd'' as Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Floyd's father. He has also made multiple appearances as a judge on ''
Boston Legal
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'', including the two-hour series finale in December 2008. In 2007, McCann played the villain Dalton Kern on the radio drama ''
Adventures in Odyssey
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'' and also Navarro and Buck in ''
Random! Cartoons
''Random! Cartoons'' is an American animated anthology series that aired on Nicktoons. Much like '' Oh Yeah! Cartoons'', it was created by Fred Seibert and produced by Frederator Incorporated and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It premiered on De ...
''.
In 2013, McCann voiced Moseph "Moe" Mastro Giovanni on an episode of ''
Adventure Time
''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn (Jeremy Shada) and ...
'', Mayor Grafton on ''
The Garfield Show
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'', and reprised Duckworth, Bouncer Beagle and Burger Beagle in ''
DuckTales Remastered
''DuckTales: Remastered'' is a Metroidvania-style Platform game, platform video game developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Capcom. The game is a High-definition television, high-definition video game remake, remake of ''DuckTales ( ...
''. In 2016, he reprised the role of the Amoeba Boys in the
2016 reboot of ''The Powerpuff Girls''. In 2017, McCann recorded a comedy podcast program, "Trump: The Last Family" with
Kevin Sean Michaels, a modern send-up to the best-selling ''
The First Family'' LP of the 1960s.
Personal life
McCann was born in
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
, to a bandleader/singer father.
He was a close friend of
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of ''Playboy'' magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obsc ...
and a regular at the
Playboy Mansion
The Playboy Mansion, also known as the Playboy Mansion West, is the former home of ''Playboy'' magazine founder Hugh Hefner who lived there from 1974 until his death in 2017. Barbi Benton convinced Hefner to buy the home located in Holmby Hill ...
.
Death
McCann died on April 8, 2018 of
congestive heart failure
Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome, a group of signs and symptoms caused by an impairment of the heart's blood pumping function. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, excessive fatigue, a ...
in
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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in Los Angeles at the age of 83.
He was cremated and his remains are in
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, at the 'Dawn of Tomorrow' section, '
Columbarium
A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased.
The term can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "'' colu ...
of Tenderness', left-side (southeast wall), Outdoor Garden Niche 6396 (7 rows up from bottom, 5 columns in from left corner).
He is survived by his third wife, Betty Fanning and two daughters from his second marriage. His son Sean, from his first marriage, died in 2009.
Selected filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
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Paul Ashley Puppets* November 2006 interview o
The Zigory Show (SOLID VOX Network)* Trump: The Last Family on Friend Or Fo
(Stitcher)Chuck McCann profile Aveleyman.com
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1934 births
2018 deaths
American male voice actors
American male radio actors
American male film actors
American male stage actors
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American male child actors
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Male actors from New York City
People from Brooklyn
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors