Chuck McCann (b. September 2, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York) is a movie, TV, stage, and voice actor, who is a third generation in show business. McCann's career expanded mostly on television such as appearing on The Steven Allen Show, Sex and the Women and Far Out Space Nuts.^[1] September 2 is the 245th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (246th in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Far Out Space Nuts was a Sid and Marty Krofft childrens television series starring Bob Denver as Junior, a dim-witted maintenance worker inexplicably employed by NASA, and Chuck McCann as Barney, his grumpy, short-tempered co-worker. ...

McCann is one of Hugh Hefner's personal friends and a regular at parties at the Playboy Mansion, as well as a regular at 'Hef's' movie nights with his inner circle of friends.^[2] McCann has appeared on various Playboy videos, including "Playboy Playmate Playoffs" as an announcer in the 1980s.^[1] Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy, as seen on the November 1976 cover of Esquire holding a copy of Hustler. ... Playboy Mansion West, commonly known as The Playboy Mansion, is the Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, residence of Playboy magazine publisher Hugh Hefner and many of his playmates. ...

From 1959 to 1967,McCann hosted his own comedy/variety tv puppet shows in the NYC viewing area. Working with puppeteer/puppet-maker and comic/character actor Paul Ashley. The pair hosted "The Puppet Hotel" for WNTA TV Ch.13,"Laurel & Hardy & Chuck", "Let's Have Fun"and "The Chuck McCann Show"for WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC from November,1959 to August,15,1965.

Following their abrupt departure from WPIX TV..McCann and Ashley went to WNEW TV Ch.5 in NYC where they hosted another version of "The Chuck McCann Show" and mc'd "The Great Bombo's Magic Cartoon Circus Lunchtime Show"and "Chuck McCann's Laurel & Hardy Show".

In June of 1967, the duo parted company. Chuck McCann went on to a successful solo career as a comic/character actor and mimic and Paul Ashley performed with his puppets in industrial shows and industrial films. Ashley would make only three tv appearances in the late 1970s. He briefly served as the head puppeteer for ABC TV's "Cos"and for "The New Howdy Doody Show" in 1976. In 1979,he made his last tv appearance with his puppets on The HBO TV documentary "I've Got The World On And Off A String".

McCann would doing voice overs for numerious movie and tv cartoons series and for tv commcerials. He would also play character parts in many motion pictures and in episodic tv series. In 1980,McCann and Ashley were to reunite for a pair of tv show pilots:

• "Tiny TV"(A saterical/variety puppet series aimed at adults for the cable market)
• "LBS Children's Theater"(A children film anthology show where McCann and The Paul Ashley Puppets would introduce reruns of prime time animated tv specials and theaterical cartoons from Euurope). But Paul Ashley was forced to leave the projects when it was discoved that he was sufferrfing from Alzheimer's disease.

"Tiny TV'was dropped but "LBS Children's Theater"was picked up for national sydication in 1983. McCann mc'd the series alone. Paul Ashley never lived long enough to see the show. He passed away on September 3,1984.

References

1. ^ ^a b Chuck McCann at the Internet Movie Database. URL accessed 27 July 2006.
2. ^ Premiere Magazine, "Everybody Comes to Hef's". URL accessed 27 July 2006.