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Chuck McCann, Zany Comic in Early Children's TV, Dies at 83
Source: New York Times
Chuck McCann, Zany Comic in Early Children’s TV, Dies at 83
By SAM ROBERTS APRIL 9, 2018
Chuck McCann, a comic whose loopiness defined live children’s television beginning in the 1950s and who later became a familiar TV and film character actor and a versatile voice on cartoons, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 83.
The cause was congestive heart failure, his daughter Siobhan Bennett said.
The Brooklyn-born son of the music arranger at New York’s famous Roxy Theater, Mr. McCann was precocious, irrepressible and persistent.
“You’ve got to be able to pick yourself up, brush yourself off and do it all over again,” he said in a 2007 interview with the American Comedy Archives. “Persistence alone is omnipotent; you have to keep hanging in there.”
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By SAM ROBERTS APRIL 9, 2018
Chuck McCann, a comic whose loopiness defined live children’s television beginning in the 1950s and who later became a familiar TV and film character actor and a versatile voice on cartoons, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 83.
The cause was congestive heart failure, his daughter Siobhan Bennett said.
The Brooklyn-born son of the music arranger at New York’s famous Roxy Theater, Mr. McCann was precocious, irrepressible and persistent.
“You’ve got to be able to pick yourself up, brush yourself off and do it all over again,” he said in a 2007 interview with the American Comedy Archives. “Persistence alone is omnipotent; you have to keep hanging in there.”
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/obituaries/chuck-mccann-zany-comic-in-early-childrens-tv-dies-at-83.html