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Chilly Willy
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Chilly Willy is a fictional cartoon character, a diminutive anthropomorphic penguin, created by Paul J. Smith for the Walter Lantz studio in 1953. The character soon become the second most popular Lantz/Universal character, behind Woody Woodpecker.
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 Rockabye 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).
Chilly was mute in most of his 1950s and early 1960s cartoons, although later entries featured Daws Butler providing Chilly's voice, in a style similar to his Elroy Jetson characterization. The character always speaks in the comic book stories based on the character.
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 Woodpecker 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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