Comedian Jonathan Winters dead at 87
Posted Apr 12, 2013 11:01 am.
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Comedian Jonathan Winters has died at age 87.
A longtime family friend said Winters died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes.
He was introduced to millions of new fans in 1981 as the son of Robin Williams’ goofball alien in the final season of ABC’s “Mork and Mindy.”
Winters was a master of improvisational comedy, with a grab bag of eccentric personalities and facial expressions. Characters such as the dirty old lady Maude Frickert were based on people Winters knew growing up in Ohio.
In the mid-1950s, “The Jonathan Winters Show” pioneered the then-new videotape technology on to do stunts such as showing up as two characters on screen together.
