Chuck McCann dead: prolific voice actor and children's TV host dies aged 83
He voiced characters on The Power Puff Girls, Ducktails, and The Garfield Show
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Your support makes all the difference.Chuck McCann – best known for hosting various comedy shows and being the voice of multiple children’s cartoon characters – has died, aged 83.
The prolific actor’s publicist confirmed he died from congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
McCann began as an entertainer on New York’s local television, starting as a side-kick until eventually hosting the variety show The Chuck McCann Show.
From there, McCann moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in film, receiving critical acclaim in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and fantasy film The Projectionist, Foul Play, The Comeback, and Herbie Rides Again.
However, live-action was not where McCann stuck – a burgeoning career as a voice-actor awaiting, including roles as Bossman in The Power Puff Girls, Duckworth in DuckTales, and various voices in The Garfield Show.
One voice McCann would be best known for was Sonny the Cuckoo Bird in various Cocoa Puffs adverts, saying the well-known line: “I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs”.
McCann would appear on multiple other variety shows throughout his career, once saying: “I did everything. 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.”
McCann is survived by his wife Elizabeth and three children.
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