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Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:08:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Unconfirmed: Skip Hinnant, 81. PDuke Show; E;;ec Co/Love of
Chair;
Fritz Cat
From: That Derek <[email protected]>
Phil Proctor from Firesign Theatre posted this somewhere on social media.:
MY GOOD FRIEND, JOSEPH =E2=80=9CSKIP=E2=80=9D HINNANT, passed at 81, on Chi=
ncoteague Island, Virginia. We were great pals in college and performed tog=
ether in the Yale Drama.
Here=E2=80=99s a brief resume of his accomplishments after graduation:
His first national appearance was as Cathy=E2=80=99s boyfriend
Ted, on =E2=80=9CThe Patty Duke Show=E2=80=9D from 1963 to =E2=80=9865, and=
in 1967. He played Schroeder in the original off-Broadway cast of Clark Ge=
sner=E2=80=99s You=E2=80=99re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, where his older br=
other, Bill Hinnant, played Snoopy. That, after appearing with us at Yale a=
s the title character in Gogol=E2=80=99s play The Inspector General.
Skip was also a featured performer on =E2=80=9CThe Electric Company=E2=80=
=9D (below), which aired 0n PBS from 1971 to =E2=80=9877. I loved him most =
as Fargo North, Word Decoder and as =E2=80=9CThe Boy=E2=80=9D in the soap o=
pera satire =E2=80=9CLove of Chair.=E2=80=9D
Later, he voiced Robert Crumb=E2=80=99s X-rated character Fritz the Cat in =
both the animated film (written and directed by Ralph Bakshi in =E2=80=9872=
) and its sequel created by Robert Taylor, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat =
in =E2=80=9874
