Walter Winchell
American journalist
Also known as: Walter Winchel
Quick Facts
- Original name:
- Walter Winchel
- Died:
- February 20, 1972, Los Angeles, California (aged 74)
Walter Winchell (born April 7, 1897, New York, New York—died February 20, 1972, Los Angeles, California) was a U.S. journalist and broadcaster whose newspaper columns and radio broadcasts containing news and gossip gave him a massive audience and much influence in the United States in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. Winchell was raised in New York City, and when he was 13 he left school to go into vaudeville with Eddie Cantor and George Jessel. Then he teamed with a singer named Rita Greene (whom he later married and still later divorced) as Winchel and Greene. During this period an ...(100 of 366 words)