Jonathan Winters
The real Jonathan Winters was born in Dayton, Ohio on November 11, 1925.
After attending public school in Springfield, he joined the Marine Corps at the age of seventeen. After serving two-and-a-half years in the South Pacific, he returned to Ohio and attended Kenyon College.
His interest in art led him to Dayton Art Institute where he studied for over two years and met the girl who would become his wife, Eileen.
Eileen encouraged Jonathan to enter a local talent contest in Dayton, which he did, and he won a wrist watch, but the performance led him to a job as an early morning disc-jockey on radio station WING in Dayton (1946).
This job led him to WBNS-TV in Columbus where he worked for three years. In 1953, Jonathan headed for New York for the "big time" with $56.46 in his pocket. As a performer at Manhattan's Blue Angel nightclub, his reputation as a comic began to grow. Gary Moore, who was substituting for Arthur Godfrey on the TV Show "Talent Scouts", presented Jonathan on the show. Then came the Jack Paar Show, The Steve Allen Show, and The Tonight Show, where Jonathan was able to demonstrate his comic genius and he became a top name in American Comedy.
Jonathan and Eileen have two children and five grandchildren. They live in Santa Barbara, where Jonathan paints and writes when he is not performing. He is also currently at work on his autobiography.
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New York Times (blog)Missing: Jonathan Winters. Badly.
New York Times (blog)
Among the pains suffered by Jonathan was an undeserved and unnecessary one. It was the up-and-down, here-and-there bumpy nature of his TV career. Not his great guest appearances, but actual Jonathan Winters Shows, which came and went, sometimes ... -
New York Times (blog)With Winters Gone, Can We Be Far Behind?
New York Times (blog)
The sad part of Jonathan — and I should say one of the sad parts — is that despite all that talent and all that greatness, his career was erratic, with short-lived Jonathan Winters Shows now and again, hundreds of hilarious guest appearances, and ... -
Words of wisdom from Jonathan Winters, a gentle, timeless comedian
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
DAYTON, Ohio -- Since his death April 12, at 87, Dayton native Jonathan Winters has been hailed as a comic genius, decades ahead of his time. Yet he told me something once that made me wonder if he could have made it in today's comedy scene, which ... -
KCET (blog)What Is So Important About Growing Up? A Lesson From Jonathan Winters
KCET (blog)
A friend of mine once encountered Jonathan Winters -- who was, among many things, a gifted comedian -- at a coffee shop in Ventura. An unabashed admirer, my friend walked up to Jonathan, shook his hand, and told Jonathan how much fun he had had ...
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