JONATHAN WINTERS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 198259

JONATHAN WINTERS
The actor/comedian shown wearing a suit and tie in a still from the 1979 film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Photograph signed: "all the best/Jonathan Winters". B/w, 8x10 overall, image 7½x8¾ (one surface). Still from the 1979 comedy, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, which starred Winters in the dual role of H. Sander and Halsey Tilson. ©1979, United Artists Corporation. Captioned at lower margin: "JONATHAN WINTERS is H. Sander Tilson, the lovable eccentric who owns the Pisces basketball team in the Lorimar film 'The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh,' a United Artists release." "Pound for pound, Winters is the funniest man on earth." These words were spoken by talk show host Jack Paar in the early 1960s. Comedian and actor Jonathan Winters (1925-2013) began his career on television on CBS' daytime The Garry Moore Show, where he introduced such imperishable characters as freewheeling senior citizen Maudie Frickett and doltish Elwood P. Suggins. During the 1964-1965 season, Winters starred in a group of well-received specials, and was also a frequent guest on The Tonight Show, The Jack Paar Program and The Andy Williams Show. Winters, who hosted his own programs, The Jonathan Winters Show (1967-1969) and The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1972-1974), is also well known to television audiences for his role as Mearth from the Earth (1981-1982), the son of the title characters of the sitcom, Mork & Mindy. Winters, who made his film debut in the all-star It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), has co-starred films including The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming (1966), The Shadow (1994), The Flintstones (1994) and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000). Light surface creases, not seen head on. Fine condition.