# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-winchell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:06:10.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-winchell"
name: "Paul Winchell"
slug: "paul-winchell"
description: "Paul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, humanitarian, and inventor whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1950 to 1954, he hosted The Paul Winchell Show, which also used two other titles during its prime time run on NBC: The Speidel Show, and What's My Name? From 1965 to 1968, Winchell hosted the children's television series Winchell-Mahoney Time."
tagline: "American actor (1922–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Winchell_Jerry_Mahoney_1951.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-12-21"
deathDate: "2005-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.103343465045593
  historical:           22.03906133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0934593/"
    handle:    "nm0934593"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump