Chilly Willy

Chilly Willy is a fictional cartoon character, a diminutive anthropomorphic penguin, created by Alex Lovy for the Walter Lantz studio in 1953. The character soon become the second most popular Lantz/Universal character, behind Woody Woodpecker.

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Cartoon character - Anthropomorphic - Penguin - Alex Lovy - Walter Lantz - 1953 - Universal - Woody Woodpecker

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Chilly appeared in over 100 theatrical short subjects produced by Lantz from 1953 to 1972, most of which involve his attempts to find food or stay warm, and always meeting opposition from a dog named Smedley (voiced by Daws Butler in his "Huckleberry Hound" voice). Two of Chilly's most notable shorts, I'm Cold (1955) and the Academy Award nominated The Legend of Rock-a-bye Point (1955), were among the final theatrical shorts directed by Tex Avery, who ended his career at the Lantz studio (where he had begun it in the early 1930s).

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Short subjects - 1972 - Dog - Daws Butler - Huckleberry Hound - 1955 - Academy Award - Tex Avery - 1930s

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When the Lantz cartoons were packaged for television in 1957 as The Woody Woodpecker Show, Chilly Willy was a featured attraction on the show, and has remained such in all later versions of the Woody Wodpecker Show package. He appeared in newly produced animation for the first time in twenty-seven years with FOX Kids' The New Woody Woodpecker Show in 1999.

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Television - 1957 - FOX Kids - 1999

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