Jonathan Winters Remembered Locally—He Had Roots in Studio City and Toluca Lake

Funnyman Jonathan Winters died Thursday night at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, reported The Associated Press. He was 87.

A note on his website adds, "Rest in Peace, Mr. Winters."

There are many local memories of Winters, including many appearances he made on the CBS Studios Radford lot.

Winters also lived in Toluca Lake for many years and his house was later bought by this generation's funny man, Steve Carell. In the clip above, the talks about living for 25 years next to his longtime friend Bob Hope in Toluca Lake.

Writer and historian Jonathan Lyons had a favorite memory from Studio City about Winters:

When we lived in south­ern Cal­i­for­nia, my wife and I went into a fur­ni­ture store on Ven­tura Boule­vard in Stu­dio City. Jonathan Win­ters was there, hold­ing a pil­low and talk­ing to an invis­i­ble per­son in one the beds on dis­play. The invis­i­ble per­son was a rel­a­tive he was fed up with. He pro­ceeded to use the pil­low to smother this “per­son”. I remem­ber it very clearly. He was doing com­edy, with an audi­ence of about 5 peo­ple. The guy can not turn it off.

I used to watch Jonathan Win­ters on TV as a kid. My fam­ily loved him. A doc­u­men­tary about Win­ters, appar­ently made in 2007, is just now being released. Here is a link to the film’s web page.

Cer­ti­fi­ably Jonathan

For more of Jonathan Lyons's memories, click here.

See some clips, including when giving a tribute to his longtime friend, Bob Hope.

* Flowers to Be Placed on Jonathan Winters' Walk of Fame Star

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