29 Facts About Chuck McCann

Charles John Thomas McCann was an American actor, comedian, puppeteer, commercial presenter and television host.

Chuck McCann was best known for his work in presenting children's television programming and animation, as well as his own program The Chuck McCann Show and he recorded comedy parody style albums.

Chuck McCann started doing radio voiceovers at the age of six.

Chuck McCann worked his way up to regional star status by apprenticing on a number of children's shows, such as Captain Kangaroo.

Chuck McCann got his big break performing on The Sandy Becker Show on WABD after the original host vacationed to South America.

At Freedomland, Chuck McCann hosted a yo-yo contest, filmed several Halloween specials, filmed a WPIX Freedomland special with other children's show hosts and appeared with Clay Cole at the park's Moon Bowl entertainment venue that featured celebrity singers and other performers.

Chuck McCann began an animation acting career, doing everything from Bob Kane's Cool McCool to Sonny the Cuckoo Bird in commercials for General Mills.

Chuck McCann had even been one of the stars of Turn-On, producer George Schlatter's offshoot of Laugh-In.

Chuck McCann made frequent guest appearances on network television shows including Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Columbo, The Rockford Files and The Bob Newhart Show.

Chuck McCann appeared in the 1973 television film The Girl Most Likely to.

Chuck McCann impersonated Oliver Hardy in commercials for various products, and for a few years, he played the holiday-season recurring role of Kris Kringle on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara.

Chuck McCann had a supporting role in the 1988 horror film Cameron's Closet as well as minor roles in the Mel Brooks films Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

Chuck McCann emceed the series alone because Ashley did not live long enough to see the show, having died on September 3,1984.

Chuck McCann voiced characters for various projects by The Walt Disney Company, such as Dreamfinder in the theme park attraction Journey Into Imagination, and several characters including Duckworth, Burger Beagle and Bouncer Beagle in the 1987 animated series DuckTales.

In 1989, McCann returned to daily children's television one more time with Chuck McCann's Funstuff, produced by fellow New York kid show legend Sonny Fox.

Chuck McCann's Funstuff was seen weekday mornings on KHJ-TV from Monday, September 18,1989, until Friday, October 13,1989.

Chuck McCann continued voice work for cartoons, playing Jollo, Bookworm, Bump-On-A-Log, and Woof in 1992's King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow.

Chuck McCann played Heff Heffalump in Disney's The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh.

Chuck McCann supplied voices for The Powerpuff Girls and Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas.

Chuck McCann moved into the field of video games, providing voices for True Crime: New York City.

Chuck McCann made an appearance in The Aristocrats, with an animated rendition of a "clean" version of the "dirty" joke that serves as the film's subject.

Chuck McCann has made multiple appearances as a judge on Boston Legal, including the two-hour series finale in December 2008.

In 2013, Chuck McCann voiced Moseph "Moe" Mastro Giovanni on an episode of Adventure Time, Mayor Grafton on The Garfield Show, and reprised Duckworth, Bouncer Beagle and Burger Beagle in DuckTales Remastered.

In 2017, Chuck McCann recorded a comedy podcast program, "Trump: The Last Family" with Kevin Sean Michaels, a modern send-up to the best-selling The First Family LP of the 1960s.

Chuck McCann married Suzanne Conner in 1958 and had a son.

Chuck McCann was a close friend of Hugh Hefner and a regular at the Playboy Mansion.

Chuck McCann died on April 8,2018, of congestive heart failure, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Chuck McCann was cremated and his remains are in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Chuck McCann is survived by his third wife, Betty Fanning; and by two daughters from his second marriage.