Chuck McCann

[trevthetoonfan]

Anybody know anything about Chuck McCann? I know he was film editor on:thinkpink and probably some other DFE cartoons and I've seen his name on Garfield and Friends but some posts I've read indicate he was a host of a children's hour on some local station. Anybody have any info?

[detroittvguy]

http://www.tvparty.com/lostny2mccann.html

[trevthetoonfan]

Is this the same Chuck McCann that worked on Pink Panther and Garfield and Friends?

[JDWeil]

Chuck is currently doing those Ditech.com commercials

[Dell Comics Fan]

Anybody know anything about Chuck McCann? I know he was film editor on:thinkpink and probably some other DFE cartoons and I've seen his name on Garfield and Friends but some posts I've read indicate he was a host of a children's hour on some local station. Anybody have any info?

It is my understanding that film editor Chuck McCann and actor Chuck McCann
are two different persons.

[trevthetoonfan]

I thought they were different.

[detroittvguy]

Two different Chucks; one is a film editor, the other an actor/comedian. BTW/ That's not Chuck in the Ditech.com spots, it's Ron Michaelson.

[trevthetoonfan]

The editor Chuck McCann worked on Garfield then as editor and some voices.

[jazzman78]

Don't forget the great live action film that he made called "The Projectionest" in 1971 - It made it to dvd a few years ago - but it's most likely out of print now. The played a modern film projectionest and on the screen played a wild silent fumbling super hero - great film - it also was the first apperance of Rodney Dangerfield.

If you check out the IMDB - you will see he has 118 from 1959 credits both as a actor or voice actor as well as 33 behind the scenes from 1957.

I remeber his new york WNEW childrens show in the 60's I could not wait to get home from high school to see it. outside of the cartoons he was very inventive by playing many caractors like "little orphin annie" both Laurel and Hardy. In the TV show he never played down to kids and there was a lot of adult humor within - great show.

He also experimented with doing special effects with video tape like reverse action and back screen exposures.

[J Lee]

Don't forget the great live action film that he made called "The Projectionest" in 1971 - It made it to dvd a few years ago - but it's most likely out of print now. The played a modern film projectionest and on the screen played a wild silent fumbling super hero - great film - it also was the first apperance of Rodney Dangerfield.

If you check out the IMDB - you will see he has 118 from 1959 credits both as a actor or voice actor as well as 33 behind the scenes from 1957.

I remeber his new york WNEW childrens show in the 60's I could not wait to get home from high school to see it. outside of the cartoons he was very inventive by playing many caractors like "little orphin annie" both Laurel and Hardy. In the TV show he never played down to kids and there was a lot of adult humor within - great show.

He also experimented with doing special effects with video tape like reverse action and back screen exposures.

Just one correction -- Chuck was on WPIX instead of WNEW in the early/mid-60s (along with Officer Joe Bolton, Captian Jack McCarthy and the Merry Mailman, Ray Heatherton). WNEW was home for Sonny Fox, Sandy Becker and, via videotape from their sister station in Los Angeles, Paul Winchell during the early and mid-60s.

(And while Chuck eventually did migrate to the West Coast, he was still working at WPIX at the time when the other Chuck McCann got his first credits on the D-FE shorts. So, no, they're not the same person.)

[jazzman78]

Chuck Mc Cann in the 60's started on WPIX channel 11 the moved to WNEW channel 5 and he was either before of followed (can't remember) soupy sales.

However I didn't realize that there were 2 Chuck Mc Cann - the IMDB had both of them working of the same projects - unless this is a mistake. - this could happen easily

Henry

[Daws Butler Jr.]

One of the versions of Chuck's show on WPIX was called "Laurel and Hardy and Chuck" and he did wraparounds for Laurel and Hardy shorts. His show on WNEW was called "The Chuck McCann Show" and he played various charcters on that show, all with the last name having some variation of the word "Dump". Like his Dick Tracy character was called Dick H. Dump and his Bob Keeshan character was Captain Dumperoo. He also had Paul Ashley and his puppets on the show. As someone else pointed out, this was a very hip show at the time.

[Stanislav]

Growing up in suburban NJ, I cut my teeth watching Chuck, along with Soupy Sales, Officer Joe Bolton, Sandy Becker, and Sonny Fox. Gawd, those were the golden days for kids' TV.....

One funny thing I remember about Chuck's show. He did one of the best Oliver Hardy impersonations around. He also did a dead-on vocal impersonation of Stan Laurel's voice but, of course, looked nothing like Stan. So, when they would do a Laurel & Hardy bit, the actor physically playing Stan would be mute most of the time, but they would contrive (very blatantly) to have him go off camera now and then. And you would then hear the very obviously pre-recorded voice of Chuck as Stan responding to Chuck as Ollie. Then when Stan was back in camera range, he would be mute again!! ;)

[gilligan fanati]

one Chuck McCann was on the Sid and Marty Krofft Show Far Out Space Nuts with Bob Denver.

[Mark J]

The Chuck on Space Nuts from the 1970's is the same Chuck Stanislav and Daws Butler Jr. are talking about who had a show on Channel 11 in the 1960's. Space Nuts was a lame Gilligan Island rip off with Denver still playing Gilligan, but in space, and Chuck as a variation of the Skipper. I remember watching Space Nuts on Saturday mornings as a kid. Chuck is a funny guy, but he wasn't given a lot of good material to work with. Chuck turned up in a lot of places in the 1970's, including an appearance on an early episode of Little House on the Prarie as a mute who makes a bell for the school. Chuck was a friend of Rodney Dangerfield and used to have bits in Rodney movies. I guess Chuck is retired because I haven't seen him in anything in a while.

[gilligan fanati]

:D

[Daws Butler Jr.]

One funny thing I remember about Chuck's show. He did one of the best Oliver Hardy impersonations around. He also did a dead-on vocal impersonation of Stan Laurel's voice but, of course, looked nothing like Stan. So, when they would do a Laurel & Hardy bit, the actor physically playing Stan would be mute most of the time, but they would contrive (very blatantly) to have him go off camera now and then. And you would then hear the very obviously pre-recorded voice of Chuck as Stan responding to Chuck as Ollie. Then when Stan was back in camera range, he would be mute again!! ;)

The actor playing Stan was none other than Chuck's puppeteer, Paul Ashley, who, by the way, had many really beautiful celebrity puppets, including Laurel and Hardy. Before Chuck started playing Ollie on camera, he used to pre-record the voices for the puppets and talk to them... or possibly they pulled a Buffalo Bob Smith and they just had the camera close on the puppets while Chuck did the voices.

And also, Chuck is definitely not retired. I'm sure he doesn't work as much as he'd like, but he does still work. I see him quite often at various functions, like The Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters Luncheons and occasionally at Sons of the Desert meetings.