Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Winters was born on Nov 11, 1925 in USA. Jonathan Winters's big-screen debut came with Shirley Temple's Storybook - Season 2 directed by Mitchell Leisen in 1960, strarring Barnaby / General Nikidik. Jonathan Winters is known for The Thief and the Cobbler directed by Richard Williams, Vincent Price stars as ZigZag and Bobbi Page as Princess YumYum (Majestic Films version). Jonathan Winters has got 11 awards and 14 nominations so far. The most recent award Jonathan Winters achieved is TV Land Awards. The upcoming new movie Jonathan Winters plays is The Smurfs 2 which will be released on Jul 31, 2013.

Jonathan Harshman Winters III was born on November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio. His father, Jonathan Harshman Winters II, was a banker who became an alcoholic after being crushed in the Great Depression. His parents divorced in 1932. Jonathan and his mother then moved to Springfield to live with his grandmother. There his mother remarried and became a radio personality. Jonathan joined the United States Marine Corps during his senior year of high school. Upon his discharge, he entered Kenyon College and later transferred to Dayton Art Institute. He met his wife, Eileen Schauder, in 1948 and married a month later. They remain married until her death in January 11, 2009. They have a son, Jay, who is a contractor, and a daughter, Lucinda, who is a talent scout for movies.Jonathan got his start in show business by winning a talent contest. This led to a children's television show in Dayton in 1950. This led to a game show and a talk show. Denied a requested raise, he moved the family to New York with only $56 in their pocket. Within two months, he was getting night club bookings. He suffered two nervous breakdowns, one in 1959 and another in 1961. He came out of "retirement" to work with director/writer Martin Guigui for Swing (2003) and Cattle Call (2006). He made ten Grammy-nominated comedy recordings and won once. Jonathan Winters died at age 87 of natural causes on April 11, 2013 in Montecito, California.