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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle marks the big screen debut of BULLWINKLE J. MOOSE (As Himself), who shares the same birthday (and age) as his lifelong friend, Rocky. In addition to co-starring with the Flying Squirrel on his ABC-TV series from 1959-61, he attained top billing when the program moved to NBC in 1961 and was called The Bullwinkle Show.
The finest example of the great North American clod, Bullwinkle attended the Philpott School for Exceptional Children (the only student with antlers, which would make him exceptional) and M.I.T. (the Moose Institute of Toe-dancing) before graduating with a degree in antlerthropology from Wossamotta U.
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Bullwinkle studied acting with one of Stanislavski’s former students, Francis the Talking Horse. After several off-Broadway roles (in Laos and Yucca Flats), he hit the Great White Way in Irma la Moose and Charley’s Antlers (the Great White Way, incidentally, is the main street in his hometown of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which is snowed-in eleven months a year). For his TV program, he also composed nonsensical poetry in a segment called Bullwinkle’s Corner.
According to biographer Louis Chunovic, in an interview with animator Jay Ward, Bullwinkle has more brains in his pinky finger than he has in his whole head.
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