When Coach Chuck Welch became “Papa Smurf” during his first year of coaching at Ramona High School, everybody knew he was officially a coach at RHS. Class of 2001 grad Neil Jamison pinned the ...

The man known as Papa Smurf due to his distinctive blue skin and white beard has died after a heart attack and stroke. Paul Karason, 62, passed away in a Washington hospital and had been suffering ...

His skin coloring earned him the nickname 'Papa Smurf,' which his estranged widow said he welcomed when it came from kids. 'That was a nickname he didn’t appreciate, depending on who said it ...

By Nick Allen and Nickallen 22 December 2010 • 8:40pm Stuart Ross made millions introducing the Smurf cartoon characters to the US in the 1980s Credit: Photo: AP Stuart Ross, 74, pleaded guilty ...

Looking like some kind of deranged Smurf, he then began to sing. According to BBC commentator Hazel Irvine, the man, singer-songwriter Philippe Katerine, was meant to be portraying Greek god Dionysus.