Los Angeles April 9 (IANS) Comedian Chuck McCann and children s much-loved TV host is dead. He was 83.
McCann did a lot of voice-over work was a fine Oliver Hardy impersonator and appeared in the 1968 "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".
He died on Sunday of congestive heart failure at a hospital here publicist Edward Lozzi told The Hollywood Reporter.
Described as an entertainment jack-of-all-trades McCann worked as a children s show host puppeteer nightclub comic movie actor voice-over performer and celebrity impersonator.
He was a founding member along with actor Orson Bean of the Sons of the Desert the international fan club dedicated to celebrating Laurel and Hardy.
"I did everything " McCann told TVParty.com in a 2007 interview.
"I never closed doors. If you look at my career -- if I had one -- I never think of it as a career I just look at it as things I love to do. I have just as much fun doing a 30-second commercial as I do making a movie " he had said.
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