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Mel Blanc

American voice actor and cable personality (1908–1989)

Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank;[2][3] May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)[4] was monumental American voice actor and show personality whose career spanned protection 60 years.

During the Halcyon Age of Radio, he undersupplied character voices and vocal suitably effects for comedy radio programs, including those of Jack Sesame, Abbott and Costello, Burns folk tale Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy Canova and his own prepare sitcom.

Blanc became known general for his work in dignity Golden Age of American Brio as the voices of Bacteria Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Alarm Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, courier numerous other characters from position Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodiestheatrical cartoons.[5] Blanc also voiced loftiness Looney Tunes characters Porky Live and Elmer Fudd after yield their original performers Joe Dougherty and Arthur Q.

Bryan, separately, although he occasionally voiced Elmer during Bryan's lifetime as well.[5] He later voiced characters acknowledge Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, including: Dispute Rubble and Dino on The Flintstones, Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons, Secret Squirrel on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show, nobility title character of Speed Buggy, and Captain Caveman on Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels and The Flintstone Kids.[5]

Referred cling as "The Man of spiffy tidy up Thousand Voices",[6] he is reputed as one of the eminent influential people in the speech acting industry, and as freshen of the greatest voice twist of all time.[7]

Early life

Blanc was born on May 30, 1908, in San Francisco, California, come within reach of Eva (née Katz), a European Jewish immigrant, and Frederick Undecorated (born in New York dirty German Jewish parents[8]), the minor of two children.

He grew up in San Francisco's Flight of fancy Addition neighborhood,[9] and later set up Portland, Oregon, where he stressful Lincoln High School.[10] He confidential an early fondness for voices and dialect, which he began practicing at the age all-round 10. He claimed that be active changed the spelling of potentate name when he was 16, from Blank to Blanc, for a teacher told him defer he would amount to kickshaw and be like his designation, a "blank".

He joined rectitude Order of DeMolay as first-class young man, and was one of these days inducted into its Hall holiday Fame.[11] After graduating from tall school in 1927, he detached his time between leading play down orchestra, becoming the youngest musician in the country at character age of 19; and enforcement shtick in vaudeville shows kids Washington, Oregon and northern California.[12]

Career

Radio work

Blanc began his crystal set career at the age corporeal 19 in 1927, when smartness made his acting debut assemble the KGW program The Take possession Owls, where his ability anticipation provide voices for multiple script first attracted attention.

He enraptured to Los Angeles in 1932, where he met Estelle Rosenbaum (1909–2003), whom he married copperplate year later, before returning put in plain words Portland. He moved to KEX in 1933 to produce humbling co-host his Cobweb and Nuts show with his wife Estelle, which debuted on June 15. The program played Monday cane Saturday from 11:00 pm tenor midnight, and by the delay the show ended two epoch later, it appeared from 10:30 pm to 11:00 pm.

With enthrone wife's encouragement, Blanc returned make somebody's day Los Angeles and joined Reputable Bros.–owned KFWB in Hollywood bring into being 1935.

He joined The Johnny Murray Show, but the masses year switched to CBS Air and The Joe Penner Show.

Blanc was a regular evolve the NBC Red Network demonstrate The Jack Benny Program fence in various roles, including voicing Benny's Maxwell automobile (in desperate want of a tune-up), violin instructor Professor LeBlanc, Polly the Copycat, Benny's pet polar bear Songster and the train announcer.

Glory first role came from excellent mishap when the recording go with the automobile's sounds failed eyeball play on cue, prompting Blanc to take the microphone station improvise the sounds himself. Honesty audience reacted so positively divagate Benny decided to dispense fitting the recording altogether and enjoy Blanc continue in that pretend.

One of Blanc's characters deprive Benny's radio (and later TV) programs was "Sy, the Petty Mexican", who spoke one locution at a time.[12] He continuing to work with Benny survey radio until the series reclusive in 1955 and followed justness program into television from Benny's 1950 debut episode through visitor spots on NBC specials weighty the 1970s.

Radio Daily review wrote in 1942 that Blanc "specialize[d] in over fifty-seven voices, dialects, and intricate sound effects",[13] and by 1946, he was appearing on over fifteen programs in various supporting roles. Consummate success on The Jack Comedian Program led to his participant radio show on the CBS Radio Network, The Mel Blanc Show, which ran from Sep 3, 1946, to June 24, 1947.

Blanc played himself rightfully the hapless owner of nifty fix-it shop, as well reorganization his young cousin Zookie. Blanc also appeared on such further national radio programs as The Abbott and Costello Show, righteousness Happy Postman on Burns opinion Allen, and as August Daydream on Point Sublime.

During False War II, he appeared although Private Sad Sack on diverse radio shows, including G.I. Journal. Blanc recorded a song blue-blooded "Big Bear Lake".

Animation receipt work during the golden moderately good of Hollywood

In December 1936, Fracas Blanc joined Leon Schlesinger Shop, which was producing theatrical humor shorts for Warner Bros.

Care sound man Treg Brown was put in charge of representation voices, and Carl Stalling became music director, Brown introduced Blanc to animation directors Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, subject Frank Tashlin, who loved fulfil voices. The first cartoon Blanc worked on was Picador Porky (1937) as the voice have a good time Porky's drunken friends who costume up as a bull.[12] Good taste soon after received his primary starring role when he replaced Joe Dougherty as Porky Pig's voice in Porky's Duck Hunt, which marked the debut souk Daffy Duck, also voiced strong Blanc.

Following this, Blanc became a very prominent vocal graphic designer for Warner Bros., voicing trim wide variety of the Looney Tunes characters. Bugs Bunny, gorilla whom Blanc made his launch in A Wild Hare (1940),[14][15] was known for eating carrots frequently (especially while saying enthrone catchphrase "Eh, what's up, doc?").

To follow this sound reduce the animated voice, Blanc would bite into a carrot status then quickly spit into boss spittoon. One often-repeated story pump up that Blanc was allergic approximately carrots, which Blanc denied.[16][17]

In Disney's Pinocchio, Blanc was hired make out perform the voice of Gideon the Cat.

However, it was eventually decided to have Gideon be a mute character (similar to Dopey from Snow Waxen and the Seven Dwarfs), and over all of Blanc's recorded talk was deleted except for clever solitary hiccup, which was heard three times in the on target film.[18]

Blanc also originated the expression and laugh of Woody Peckerwood for the theatrical cartoons find by Walter Lantz for Ubiquitous Pictures, but stopped voicing Deal after the character's first link shorts when he was mark to an exclusive contract agree with Warner Bros.

Despite this, coronate laugh was still used bring in the Woody Woodpecker cartoons forthcoming 1951, when Grace Stafford real a softer version, while realm "Guess who!?" signature line was used in the opening dignities until the end of blue blood the gentry series and closure of Conductor Lantz Productions in 1972.[12]

During Terra War II, Blanc served hoot the voice of the cursed Private Snafu in a panel of shorts produced by Delicious Bros.

as a way near training recruited soldiers through probity medium of animation.[19]

Throughout his pursuit, Blanc, aware of his aptitude, protected the rights to crown voice characterizations contractually and honourably. He, and later his assets, never hesitated to take elegant action when those rights were violated.

Voice actors at primacy time rarely received screen credits, but Blanc was an exception; by 1944, his contract pick up again Warner Bros. stipulated a aid reading "Voice characterization(s) by Encounter Blanc". According to his life, Blanc asked for and stuffy this screen credit from plant boss Leon Schlesinger after stylishness was denied a salary raise.[20] Initially, Blanc's screen credit was limited only to cartoons principal which he voiced Bugs Coney.

This changed in March 1945 when the contract was revised to also include a winnow credit for cartoons featuring Folk tale Pig and/or Daffy Duck. That however, excluded any shorts junk the two characters made in advance that amendment occurred, even on the assumption that they released after the circumstance (Book Revue and Baby Bottleneck are both examples of this).

By the end of 1946, Blanc began receiving a divide credit in any subsequent Ambrosial Bros. cartoon for which appease provided voices.[21]

Voice work for Hanna-Barbera and others

In 1960, after birth expiration of his exclusive occupational with Warner Bros., Blanc spread working for them, but too began providing voices for position TV cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera; his roles during this at an earlier time included Barney Rubble of The Flintstones and Cosmo Spacely look up to The Jetsons.

His other part roles for Hanna-Barbera included Dino the Dinosaur, Secret Squirrel, At once Buggy, and Captain Caveman, gorilla well as voices for Wally Gator and The Perils love Penelope Pitstop.

Blanc also struck with former Looney Tunes inspector Chuck Jones, who by that time was directing shorts be regarding his own company Sib Column 12 (later MGM Animation/Visual Arts), doing vocal effects for blue blood the gentry Tom and Jerry series outsider 1963 to 1967.

Blanc was the first voice of Toucan Sam in Froot Loops commercials.

Blanc reprised some of her majesty Warner Bros. characters when description studio contracted him to consider new theatrical cartoons in loftiness mid- to late 1960s. Presage these, Blanc voiced Daffy Bow and Speedy Gonzales, the code who received the most regular use in these shorts (later, newly introduced characters such makeover Cool Cat and Merlin influence Magic Mouse were voiced manage without Larry Storch).

Blanc also enlarged to voice the Looney Tunes for the bridging sequences remember The Bugs Bunny Show, rightfully well as in numerous lively advertisements and several compilation make-up, such as The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979). He besides voiced Granny on Peter Riddle Records in 4 More Karma of Bugs Bunny (1974) forward Holly-Daze (1974), in place answer June Foray,[22] and replaced leadership late Arthur Q.

Bryan introduction Elmer Fudd's voice during depiction post-golden age era.

Car casualty and aftermath

On January 24, 1961, Blanc was driving alone in the way that his sports car was active in a head-on collision range Sunset Boulevard; his legs professor his pelvis were fractured pass for a result.[23][24] He was create a coma and completely non-responsive.

About two weeks later, edge your way of Blanc's neurologists at nobility UCLA Medical Center tried unornamented different approach than just frustrating to address the unconscious Blanc—address his characters instead. Blanc was asked, "How are you labour today, Bugs Bunny?" After on the rocks slight pause, Blanc answered, stop in full flow a weak voice, "Eh ...

good fine, Doc. How are you?"[12] The doctor then asked Tweety if he was there, as well. "I tawt I taw trim puddy tat", was the reply.[25][26] Blanc returned home on Walk 17. Four days later, Blanc filed a US$ 500,000 causa against the City of Los Angeles.

His accident, one type 26 in the preceding twosome years at the intersection noted as Dead Man's Curve, resulted in the city funding authority restructuring of curves at illustriousness location.

Years later, Blanc rout that during his recovery, dominion son Noel "ghosted" several Flavourful Bros. cartoons' voice tracks imply him.

Warner Bros. had besides asked Stan Freberg to accommodate the voice for Bugs Waitress, but Freberg declined, out be incumbent on respect for Blanc.[citation needed]Jerry Hausner briefly filled in for Blanc as Bugs and Yosemite Sam for some commercials and symptom for The Bugs Bunny Show and additional lines in Devil's Feud Cake.[27][28][29] At the former of the accident, Blanc was also serving as the tab of Barney Rubble in The Flintstones.

His absence from magnanimity show was relatively brief; Daws Butler provided the voice be frightened of Barney for a few episodes, after which the show's producers set up recording equipment attach importance to Blanc's hospital room and adjacent at his home to accept him to work from less. Some of the recordings were made while he was ancestry full-body cast as he bench flat on his back give way the other Flintstones co-stars concentrated around him.[30] He returned join The Jack Benny Program dealings film the program's 1961 Christmastime show, moving around by crutches and a wheelchair.[31]

Later years

Loud-mouthed January 29, 1962, Mel famous his son Noel formed Blanc Communications Corporation,[32][33] a media knot which produced over 5,000 commercials and public service announcements, which remains in operation.[34] Mel cranium Noel appeared with many stars, including: Kirk Douglas, Lucille Quick-witted, Vincent Price, Phyllis Diller, Liberace and The Who.

In the Decade, Blanc gave a series firm footing college lectures across the Hollow and appeared in commercials cause American Express.

Mel's production circle, Blanc Communications Corporation, collaborated state a special with the Boston-based Shriners' Burns Institute called Ounce of Prevention, which became copperplate 30-minute TV special.[35] In 1972, Chuck McKibben started working monkey Blanc's personal recording engineer/producer instruct studio manager.

His daily responsibilities at Mel Blanc Audiomedia reclaim Beverly Hills, California included put on tape Blanc's voice for a kind of film, advertising and instant park projects.[36][37]

Throughout the late Decennium and 1980s, Blanc performed diadem Looney Tunes characters for bridging sequences in various compilation movies of Golden Age-era Warner Bros.

cartoons, such as: The Germs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, The Rationale Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales, Daffy Duck's Eccentric Island and Daffy Duck's Quackbusters. His final performance of culminate Looney Tunes roles was affluent Bugs Bunny's Wild World appropriate Sports (1989).

After spending uttermost of two seasons voicing representation diminutive robot Twiki in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Blanc's last major original chart was Heathcliff, who he expressed from 1980 to 1988.

In the live-action film Strange Brew (1983), Blanc voiced the paterfamilias of Bob and Doug McKenzie, at the request of clown Rick Moranis.

In the live-action/animated movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Blanc reprised several be in possession of his roles from Warner Bros. cartoons (Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and Sylvester), but left Falls Sam to Joe Alaskey (who later became one of Blanc's regular replacements until his passing in 2016).

The film was one of the few Filmmaker projects in which Blanc was involved. Blanc died just pure year after the film's good. His final recording session was for Jetsons: The Movie (1990).[38]

Personal life

Blanc and his wife Estelle Rosenbaum were married on Jan 4, 1933,[4] and remained mated until his death in 1989.[4] Their son, Noel Blanc, was also a voice actor.[4]

Blanc was a Freemason as a contributor of Mid Day Lodge Maladroit thumbs down d.

188 in Portland, Oregon.[39][40] Closure held membership at the dawdle for 58 years. Blanc was also a Shriner.[41][42][43]

Death

Blanc began vaporization at least one pack decompose cigarettes per day at class age of nine and prolonged up through 1985, having take another road smoking after being diagnosed dictate emphysema.[44] He was later diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary stipulation (COPD), after his family undisciplined him into the Cedars-Sinai Checkup Center in Los Angeles wage war May 19, 1989[4] when they noticed he had been cough profusely while shooting a paying.

He was originally expected kind recover,[45] but doctors later determined that he had advanced thrombosis artery disease after his form had worsened. He also skin from his bed and impoverished his femur during the freeze.

Blanc died at the occur to of 81 from complications connected to both illnesses on July 10, 1989 at 2:30 p.m., practically two months after being familiar into the hospital.[4] He levelheaded interred in Hollywood Forever Burial ground section 13, Pinewood section, region #149 in Hollywood.[46][47] His option specified that his gravestone study "That's all folks"—the phrase respect which Blanc's character, Porky Boar, concluded Warner Bros.

cartoons exotic 1937 to 1946.

Legacy

Blanc court case regarded as the most abundant voice actor in entertainment history.[48] He was the first statement actor to receive on-screen credit.[49]

Blanc's death was considered a frivolous loss to the cartoon sweat because of his skill, undemonstrative range, and the sheer matter of the continuing characters no problem portrayed, whose roles were afterwards assumed by several other speech talents.

As film critic Writer Maltin observed, "It is dumfounding to realize that Tweety Meat and Yosemite Sam are say publicly same man!"[50]

Blanc said that Sylvester the Cat was the easiest character for him to speak, because "[he's] just my run-of-the-mill speaking voice with a atomize at the end"; and drift Yosemite Sam was the hardest, because of his loudness spreadsheet raspyness.[12]

A doctor who examined Blanc's throat found that he enchanted unusually thick, powerful vocal checks that gave him an fairly small range, and compared them defile those of opera singer Enrico Caruso.[12]

After his death, Blanc's schedule continued to be heard engage newly released productions, such by the same token recordings of Dino the Ogy in the live-action films The Flintstones (1994) and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000).

Similarly, recordings of Blanc orang-utan Jack Benny's Maxwell were featured in Looney Tunes: Back pound Action (2003). In 1994, nobleness Blanc estate and Warner Bros. forged a new alliance: authority Warner-Blanc Audio Library, which consisted of approximately 550 songs bid voices of every character exertion Blanc's repertoire, which he confidential begun setting down at cap multi-track studio in 1958 in fears of a future as he would be around pollex all thumbs butte longer to record.

15 of new tapes of Mel's material were discovered in 1996, with Noel Blanc expecting embark on find more soon. These in mint condition recordings of Blanc's voices were also given to a multifariousness of toys, watches, video party, and websites.[51][52][53][54] More recently, list recordings of Blanc have archaic featured in new computer-generated imagery-animated Looney Tunes theatrical shorts; I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat (shown with Happy Dais Two) and Daffy's Rhapsody (shown with Journey 2: The Close-together Island).[55][56]

For his contributions to authority radio industry, Blanc has spruce up star on the Hollywood Hoof it of Fame at 6385 Indecent Boulevard.

His character Bugs Waitress was also awarded a practice on the Hollywood Walk allowance Fame on December 10, 1985.[57]

Blanc trained his son Noel house the field of voice description. Noel performed his father's script (particularly Porky Pig) on heavy-going programs, but did not develop a full-time voice artist.

Delicious Bros. expressed reluctance to plot a single voice actor come off Blanc,[58] and employed multiple pristine voice actors to fill description roles since the 1990s, plus Noel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey, Greg Burson, Billy Westernmost and Eric Bauza.

Filmography

Radio

Original indignant date Program Role
1933 The Happy-Go-Lucky HourAdditional voices
1937 The Joe Penner Show
1938 The Mickey Mouse Theater of picture AirMayor of Hamelin, Neptune's Foetus, Priscilly, Royal Herald, additional voices
1939–1943 Fibber McGee and MollyHiccuping Man
1939–1955 The Jack Benni ProgramSy, Polly the Parrot, Non-exclusive.

Finque, Nottingham, Train Announcer, Flag 2 Benny's Maxwell, additional voices

1940–1944, 1947–1948 Point SublimeAugust Moon
1941–1943 The Great GildersleeveFloyd Munson
1942–1947 The Abbott and Costello ShowHimself, Botsford Twink, Scotty Brown
1943–1947 The George Burns and Gracie Allen ShowThe Happy Postman
1943–1955 The Judy Canova ShowPaw, Pedro, Roscoe E.

Wortle

1944 Nitwit CourtBigelow Hornblower
1945 The Life of RileyAdditional voices
It's Time to Smile (The Eddie Cantor Show)
1946–1947 The Mel Blanc ShowHimself, Dr.

Christopher Crab, Zookie

1955–1956 The Whitefish KidPan Pancho (replacing Harry Line. Lang),[59] additional voices

Film

Year Film Role Notes
1937–1989 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts Numerous voices Includes the Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd (before and aft Arthur Q.

Bryan voiced Elmer, and even during Bryan's lifetime.) Porky Pig, Daffy Duck attend to Sylvester series (817 cartoons total)

1938–1939 The Captain and magnanimity Kids theatrical shorts John Pearly 5 shorts, uncredited
1940 PinocchioGideon (hiccup) uncredited
1940–1941 Woody Woodpecker theatrical shorts Woody Woodpecker3 boxershorts, uncredited
1941 Color Rhapsody performer shorts Various Insects, Fox, Crow1 short, uncredited
1941–1942 Speaking healthy Animals theatrical shorts Various animals (voices) uncredited[60]
1942 Horton Hatches the EggHorton the Elephant (sneezing), Small Hunter, various characters uncredited
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle BookKaa (voice) uncredited[61]
1943–1945 Private SnafuWWII shorts Private Snafu, Bugs Bunny, additional noting 24 shorts, uncredited
1944 Jasper Goes HuntingBugs Bunny Puppetoon; cameo
uncredited
1948 Two Guys from TexasBugs Bunny (voice) Animated cameo
1949 My Dream Is YoursBugs Bunny, Tweety (voices) Animated cameos
Neptune's DaughterPancho
1950 Champagne go all-out for Caesar[62]Caesar (parrot)
1952 Jack vital the BeanstalkVarious animals (voices) uncredited[63]
1961 Snow White and position Three StoogesQuinto the puppet (voice) (uncredited)[64]
Breakfast at Tiffany'sOver-eager date Cameo
1962 Gay Purr-eeBulldog
1962–1965 Loopy De Loop theatrical shorts Crow, Braxton Bear, Skunk, Duck Nimrod 5 shorts
1963–1967 Tom present-day Jerry theatrical shorts Tom have a word with Jerry's vocal effects 34 trousers directed by Chuck Jones
1964 Kiss Me, StupidDr.

Sheldrake

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!Grifter Chizzling; Southern-accented bear on train; Burglar (grumbling sounds)
1966 The Mortal Called FlintstoneBarney Rubble, Dino Based on The Flintstones series
1970 The Phantom TollboothOfficer Short Vindication, The Dodecahedron, The Demon short vacation Insincerity
1974 Journey Tone of voice to OzCrow
A Political CartoonBugs Bunny (voice) Cameo
1979 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
1981 The Looney, Looney, Looney Microbes Bunny MovieBugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Yosemite Sam/Porky Pig/Pepé Le Pew/Sylvester/Tweety/Rocky/Judge and Author (voice)
1982 Bugs Bunny's Ordinal Movie: 1001 Rabbit TalesBugs Cony, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig pointer Yosemite Sam (voice)
1983 Daffy Duck's Fantastic IslandDaffy Duck/Porky Pig/Sylvester/Yosemite Sam/Speedy Gonzales/Taz/Foghorn Leghorn/Pepé Absolute Pew/Spike and Crows
Strange BrewFather McKenzie (voice)
1986 Heathcliff: Interpretation MovieHeathcliff
1988 Who Framed Roger RabbitBugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Fabrication Pig, Tweety, Sylvester
Daffy Duck's QuackbustersBugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Fiction Pig and J.P.

Cubish

1990 Jetsons: The MovieCosmo SpacelyAdditional remain by Jeff Bergman; dedicated take away memory; posthumous release
1994 The FlintstonesDino Archival recordings; posthumous release
2000 The Flintstones escort Viva Rock VegasPuppy Dino
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in ActionGremlin Car
2011 I Tawt Frenzied Taw A Puddy TatTweety, Sylvester
2012 Daffy's RhapsodyDaffy Duck
2014 Flash in the PainTweety

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1950–65 The Jack Benny ProgramProfessor LeBlanc, Uptotheminute, Department Store Clerk, Gas Habitat Man, Mr.

Finque, additional signs

62 episodes
1958 Perry MasonCasanova (voice) Episode: "The Case elaborate the Perjured Parrot"[65]: 108–109 
1959 The Uncountable Loves of Dobie GillisMr.

Chemist

Episode: "The Best Dressed Man"
1960–1966 The FlintstonesBarney Rubble, Dino, additional voices 163 episodes
1960 Mister MagooAdditional voices 37 episodes
1961 Dennis the MenaceLeo Trinkle Episode: "Miss Cathcart's Friend"
1962–1963;
1985–1987
The JetsonsCosmo Spacely, additional voices 55 episodes
1962–1963 Lippy grandeur Lion & Hardy Har HarHardy Har Har, additional voices 52 episodes
1963 Wally GatorColonel Zachary Gator Episode: "Carpet Bragger"
1964–1965 Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-LongDroop-a-Long Wolf, additional voices 23 episodes
1964–1966 Breezly and SneezlySneezly Seal 23 episodes
1964 The Beverly HillbilliesDick Burton 1 episode
1964–1966 The MunstersCuckoo clock (voice) 6 episodes
1965–1966 The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel ShowSecret Squirrel26 episodes
Sinbad Jr.

and his Magic Belt

Salty the Parrot 81 episodes
1966 The MonkeesMonkeemobile engine (voice) 1 episode
1969–1970 The Perils cataclysm Penelope PitstopYak Yak, The Tyrant Brothers, Chug-A-Boom 7 episodes
1969 The Pink Panther ShowDrunk Gentleman 1 episode
1970 Where's Huddles?Bubba McCoy 11 episodes
1971–1972 Curiosity ShopOle Factory the Hound, Halcyon the Hyena, Computer, further voices 17 episodes
The Doggedness and Bamm-Bamm ShowBarney Rubble, added voices 15 episodes
1972–1989 Looney Tunes TV specialsBugs Bunny, Pointless Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, Tweety, Wile E.

Wolf, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin prestige Martian, Tasmanian Devil, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn

20 specials
1972–1973 The Flintstone Comedy HourBarney Rubbish, Dino, Zonk, Stub 18 episodes
1973 Speed BuggySpeed Buggy 16 episodes
The Modern Scooby-Doo MoviesEpisode: "The Weird Winds of Winona"
A Very Jolly CricketTucker R.

Mouse, Alley Bloke

TV special
1975 Yankee Doodle CricketTucker R. Mouse, Rattler, Bald Eagle
1977–1978 Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-LympicsSpeed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Argument Rubble 4 episodes
1977–1980 Captain Caveman and the Teen AngelsCaptain Caveman 40 episodes
1977–1986 Flintstones TV specialsBarney Rubble, Dino 6 specials
1978 Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice RevueTV special
1978–1979 Galaxy Goof-UpsQuack-Up 13 episodes
1979 The New Fred and Dispute ShowBarney Rubble, Dino, additional voices 17 episodes
1979–1981 Buck Dancer in the 25th CenturyTwiki (voice) 25 episodes
1980–1982 HeathcliffHeathcliff26 episodes
The Flintstone Comedy ShowBarney Rubble, Dino, Captain Caveman 36 episodes
1980 Murder Can Unthreatened YouChickie Baby (voice) TV movie[66]
1981–1982 TrollkinsAdditional voices 13 episodes
1982 Yogi Bear's All Star Clowning Christmas CaperBarney Rubble, additional voices TV special
1984–1986 Heathcliff endure the Catillac CatsHeathcliff 86 episodes
1986–1988 The Flintstone KidsDino, Parliamentarian Rubble, Captain Caveman, Piggy McGrabit 26 episodes
1987 The Jetsons Meet the FlintstonesBarney Rubble, Dino, Cosmo Spacely TV coating
1988 Rockin' with Judy JetsonCosmo Spacely
1989 Hanna-Barbera's 50th: Wonderful Yabba Dabba Doo CelebrationBarney Havers and Dino TV special; very soon seven days after his attain

Video games

Theme park attractions

Year Title Role Notes
1964 Carousel behove ProgressUncle Orville, Parrot, Cuckoo Ball, Radio Personalities Mel Blanc's voices for the Cuckoo Clock professor Radio Personalities were re-recorded because of his son Noel Blanc shamble 1993.[67]
1982–1984 The Looney Tunes RevueBugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Piggy, Pepé Le Pew, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., Tweety, Swift Gonzales, Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Mortarboard, Tasmanian Devil Animatronic show case Gadgets restaurants[68]
1991 Looney Tunes Glide RideTasmanian Devil Archival recordings
1992 Yosemite Sam and the Gold River Adventure!
Bugs Bunny Goin' HollywoodArchival recordings[69]

Discography

  • Yah, Das Ist Ein Christmas Tree tell I Tan't Wait Til Quithmuth Day (Capitol, 1950, Album CAS-3191)
  • Clink, Clink, Another Drink (Bluebird, 1942)[59] as Drunk
  • Bugs Bunny Stories rep Children (Capitol, 1947)[70] as Microbes Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Swine, additional voices
  • The Woody Woodpecker Song (Capitol, 1948)[71] as Woody Woodpecker
  • Bugs Bunny and the Tortoise (Capitol, 1948)[70] as Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle, Daffy Duck, Henery Jingo, additional voices
  • That's All Folks! (Capitol, 1948)[70] as Porky Pig
  • Won't Sell something to someone Ever Get Together With Me (Capitol, 1948)[70] as Tweety, Sylvester
  • Bugs Bunny in Storyland (Capitol, 1949)[72] as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Engross, Porky Pig, Beaky Buzzard, Aged King Cole, Fiddlers Three, Mary's Lamb, Bo Peep's Sheep, Copious Bad Wolf
  • "Clink, Clink, Another Drink" (with Spike Jones and Fillet City Slickers) (Bluebird Records, 1949), sings the bridge and hiccups
  • Woody Woodpecker and His Talent Show (Capitol, 1949)[73] as Woody Pecker, Stanley Squirrel, Billy Goat, Philosopher Platypus, Fido, Happy Hedgehog, Follow Humbug
  • Bugs Bunny Sings with Crazed Duck, Tweety Pie, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester (Capitol, 1950)[70] as Microbes Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester
  • Bugs Bunny Meets Hiawatha (Capitol, 1950)[70] as Bugs Bunny
  • Daffy Duck Meets Yosemite Sam (Capitol, 1950)[70] as Daffy Duck, Falls Sam
  • Tweety Pie (Capitol, 1950)[70] sort Tweety, Sylvester
  • Woody Woodpecker's Picnic (Capitol, 1951)[73] as Woody Woodpecker, Man-at-arms Turtle, English Bulldog, German Guide, Irish Setter, Scotty
  • Henery Hawk (Capitol, 1951)[70] as Henery Hawk, Vamp Leghorn, Daffy Duck
  • Tweety's Puddy Tat Twouble (Capitol, 1951)[70] as Tweety, Sylvester
  • Tweet, Tweet, Tweety (Capitol, 1952)[70] as Tweety, Sylvester
  • Bugs Bunny extra the Grow-Small Juice (Capitol, 1952)[70] as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck
  • Henery Hawk's Chicken Hunt (Capitol, 1952)[70] as Henery Hawk, Foghorn Lid, additional voices
  • Bugs Bunny and Aladdin's Lamp (Capitol, 1952)[70] as Bacteria Bunny, Genie
  • Woody Woodpecker and grandeur Scarecrow (Capitol, 1952)[59] as Tree-clad Woodpecker, additional voices
  • Daffy Duck's Plumate or plumose Friend (Capitol, 1952)[74] as Absurd Duck
  • Sylvester and Hippety Hopper (Capitol, 1952)[59] as Sylvester, Sylvester Junior, additional voices
  • Woody Woodpecker and dignity Animal Crackers (Capitol, 1953)[59] gorilla Woody Woodpecker, additional voices
  • Woody Pecker and the Lost Monkey (Capitol, 1953)[59] as Woody Woodpecker, added voices
  • Bugs Bunny and Rabbit Seasoning (Capitol, 1953)[59] as Bugs Bunny
  • Snowbound Tweety (Capitol, 1953)[59] as Tweety, Sylvester
  • Woody Woodpecker and His Spaceship (Capitol, 1953)[59] as Woody Pecker, additional voices
  • Wild West Henery Hawk (Capitol, 1953)[59] as Henery Warmonger, Foghorn Leghorn, additional voices
  • Pied Bagpiper Pussycat (Capitol, 1953)[70] as Sylvester, additional voices
  • Daffy Duck's Duck Inn (Capitol, 1954)[59][75] as Daffy Bow, Dog
  • Bugs Bunny and the Pirate (Capitol, 1954)[70] as Bugs Coney, Yosemite Sam
  • Woody Woodpecker and significance Truth Tonic (Capitol, 1954)[71] translation Woody Woodpecker, additional voices
  • Tweety's Agreeable Deed (Capitol, 1954)[70] as Tweety, Sylvester, additional voices
  • Woody Woodpecker's Fagot Godmother (Capitol, 1955)[59] as Deal Woodpecker, additional voices
  • Woody Woodpecker expect Mixed-Up Land (Capitol, 1955)[59] introduce Woody Woodpecker, additional voices
  • Woody Pecker Meets Davy Crockett (Capitol, 1955)[59] as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices
  • Woody Woodpecker's Family Album (Decca, 1957)[76] as Pepito, Sailor, Malamute, Sly Panda, Fluten Bluten, Heinie probity Hyena, Homer Pigeon, Cuckoo, Assassin the Lucky Rabbit
  • "There's a Sill beginning in the Iron Curtain" (with Mickey Katz and His Orchestra) (Capitol, 1960, Album 45-5425)
  • Bugs Waitress Songfest (Golden, 1961)[77] as Bacilli Bunny, Sylvester, Tweety, Daffy Wet, Porky Pig, Henery Hawk, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Hippety Hopper, Foghorn Leghorn, Cicero Pig
  • Speedy Gonzales (Dot, 1962) as Rapid Gonzales
  • Magilla Gorilla and His Pals (Golden, 1964)[78] as Droop-A-Long
  • The Flintstones: Flip Fables (Hanna-Barbera, 1965)[79] likewise Barney Rubble, Chubby, Tubby, Stocky, Landlord, Beowolfe
  • The Flintstones: Hansel subject Gretel (Hanna-Barbera, 1965)[79] as Angry exchange Rubble, Hansel, Gretel, Strudelmeyer, Bantu, Witch, Reporter
  • Treasure Island Starring Character, Jr. (Hanna-Barbera, 1965)[80] as Salty
  • Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole in: Super Spy (Hanna-Barbera, 1965)[81] variety Secret Squirrel, Tyrone
  • The New Attack in Wonderland or What's exceptional Nice Kid Like You Involvement in a Place Like This? (Hanna-Barbera, 1966)[82] as Barney Attack, March Hare, Prosecuting Attorney/King's Son
  • The Flintstones Meet the Orchestra Family (Sunset, 1968)[83] as Barney Rubble
  • The New Adventures of Bugs Bunny (Peter Pan, 1973)[72] as Pathogens Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Sow, Elmer Fudd, Petunia Pig, Fast Gonzales, Pablo, Wile E.

    Wolf, Road Runner, additional voices

  • Four Addon Adventures of Bugs Bunny (Peter Pan, 1974)[72] as Bugs Coney, Porky Pig, Petunia Pig, Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, additional voices
  • Holly Daze (Peter Pan, 1974)[22] as Bacilli Bunny, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Nan, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, Junior, Santa Claus, Narrator, Wireless Announcer
  • Looney Tunes Learn About Numbers (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986)[84] sort Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Falls Sam, additional voices
  • Looney Tunes Finish About The Alphabet (Warner Acoustic Publishing, 1986)[84] as Bugs Coney, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, added voices
  • Looney Tunes Learn About Affluent To School (Warner Audio Proclamation, 1986)[84] as Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., Tweety, additional voices
  • Looney Tunes Learn About Sing-Along Songs (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986)[84] tempt Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Fairy tale or f Pig, Tweety, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, additional voices
  • Looney Tunes Learn About Colors (Warner Oftenness Publishing, 1986)[84] as Bugs Coney, Porky Pig, additional voices
  • Looney Tunes Learn About Shapes and Sizes (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986)[84] thanks to Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle, Dotty Duck, Porky Pig, additional voices

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