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Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)[1] was an American voice actor, comedian, singer, radio personality, and recording artist. After beginning his over 60-year career performing in radio, he became known for his work in animation as the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, the Tasmanian Devil and many of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons during the golden age of American animation. He voiced all of the major male Warner Bros. cartoon characters except for Elmer Fudd, whose voice was provided by fellow radio personality Arthur Q. Bryan, although Blanc later voiced Fudd as well after Bryan's death.[2]
He later voiced characters for Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, including Barney Rubble on The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons. Blanc was also the original voice of Woody Woodpecker for Universal Pictures and provided vocal effects for the Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Chuck Jones for MGM, replacing William Hanna. During the golden age of radio, Blanc also frequently performed on the programs of famous comedians from the era, including Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen and Judy Canova.[2]
Having earned the nickname The Man of a Thousand Voices,[3] Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice acting industry.[4]
He later voiced characters for Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, including Barney Rubble on The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons. Blanc was also the original voice of Woody Woodpecker for Universal Pictures and provided vocal effects for the Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by Chuck Jones for MGM, replacing William Hanna. During the golden age of radio, Blanc also frequently performed on the programs of famous comedians from the era, including Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen and Judy Canova.[2]
Having earned the nickname The Man of a Thousand Voices,[3] Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice acting industry.[4]
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MEL BLANC. Classic Sad Sack Routine w/ Lucille Ball. Live Performance from 1944.
This short segment features Mel Black being taped doing a radio show with Lucille Ball and Kay Kaiser. Brilliantly funny. This film was shot for the U.S mili...
Great voice man ! Here's one from 1944.
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I decided to re-do my "Voices of Mel Blanc" video because I was downright sick and tired of people asking me if the line in the Flintstones clip I was using ...
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for letting us know that May 30 is the anniversary of the birth of American voice actor, comedian, singer, radio personality, and recording artist
Melvin Jerome Blanc.
Rest in peace Mel Blanc.
From the New York Times announcing his death at age 81
"Mel Blanc, Who Provided Voices For 3,000 Cartoons, Is Dead at 81
By PETER B. FLINT
Mel Blanc, the versatile, multi-voiced actor who breathed life into such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie, Sylvester and the Road Runner, died of heart disease and emphysema yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81 years old.
He had been admitted to the hospital on May 19.
In a career spanning six decades, Mr. Blanc helped develop nearly 400 characters and provided a rich mix of voices for some 3,000 animated cartoons. In the 1940's and 50's he supplied the voices for 90 percent of the Warner Brothers cartoon menagerie, and in the 60's he was a co-producer of ''The Bugs Bunny Show,'' an ABC-TV Saturday morning series that featured Looney Tunes characters in new adventures written for television.
In the 1960's he also contributed to ''The Flintstones,'' the first animated situation comedy created for television and the first cartoon broadcast in prime time. For that series he supplied the voices for both Barney Rubble, the dull-witted neighbor of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and Dino, the Flintstones' pet dinosaur.
Mr. Blanc was still active as he approached 80, when he made new recordings of five of his classic characters for the innovative 1988 live-animation film ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit,'' rejuvenating Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety Pie and Sylvester the cat. Played Three Instruments
Melvin Jerome Blanc was born on May 30, 1908, in San Francisco, to Frederick and Eva Katz Blanc, managers of a women's clothing business. He attended elementary and high schools in Portland, Ore., and studied music, becoming proficient on the bass, violin and sousaphone.
He married Estelle Rosenbaum in 1933 and, soon after, they won contracts to appear on a daily radio program. The sponsors could not afford to hire additional actors, so Mr. Blanc used his voice to create a repertory company.
The couple then went to Los Angeles, where Mr. Blanc joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, an innovative cartoon workshop that eventually developed Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
Mr. Blanc's first major character was Porky Pig, the shy stammerer. The second was Happy Rabbit, which he saved from oblivion by providing a new name, Bugs, from the nickname of the character's illustrator, Ben Hardaway. Mr. Blanc then developed a distinctively brash voice for the character and came up with Bugs's catchy cue: ''What's up, doc?'' Events Changed Bugs's Character
Bugs's creators were very careful in shaping his personality. Events and other characters tormented him, bringing about a change in his naturally timid rabbit nature and pushing him to take the offensive. He became mischievous, but never mean.
In an interview Mr. Blanc explained Bugs Bunny's charm this way: ''He's a little stinker. That's why people love him. He does what most people would like to do but don't have the guts to do.''
The Blanc repertory company grew to include Tweety Pie, the devious canary known for the song ''I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat''; the canary's enemy, Sylvester, whose favorite oath was ''Sssssufferin' sssssuccotash!''; the scheming Daffy Duck; the speedy ''beep-beeping'' desert bird Road Runner; the amorous French skunk Pepe le Pew; the shifty-eyed Wile E. Coyote, and the hot-tempered Yosemite Sam.
Mr. Blanc also created a dizzying range of sound effects. In the Jack Benny radio show he was Carmichael, the irascible polar bear who guarded the comedian's underground vault. He was also Mr. Benny's outspoken parrot; his violin teacher, Monsieur Le Blanc; his Mexican gardener, Sy, and even his troublesome Maxwell car.
Other roles created by Mr. Blanc were the wistful postman on ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'' and a range of characters on programs starring Abbott and Costello, Dagwood and Blondie, and Judy Canova and Al Pierce. Produced Commercials
In the 1960's Mr. Blanc formed his own company to produce and market commercials and fillers for radio and television. These included an unconventional announcement for the American Cancer Society in which a man was tortured to death by being forced to smoke one cigarette after another.
In 1976, the State of California hired Mr. Blanc to enlist his cartoon associates in producing 10 radio announcements to warn residents how to prepare for a major earthquake, how to survive one and what to do afterward.
In one announcement Bugs asks, ''What do I do when the shaking stops?'' Daffy replies, ''Stay away from damaged structures and power lines and remember to stay calm.'' Had Two Hit Records
Mr. Blanc maintained a lifelong interest in music, and composed a handful of songs. Two of them, ''I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat'' and ''The Woody Woodpecker Song,'' each sold more than two million records.
Mr. Blanc and his wife lived for many years in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where Mr. Blanc was the honorary mayor.
He had an insatiable curiosity about all kinds of sounds. ''When I was a kid,'' he said, ''I used to look at animals and wonder, how would that kitten sound if it could talk. I'd tighten up my throat and make a very small voice, not realizing I was rehearsing.''
In 1985, he described his creative efforts thus: ''What we tried to do was amuse ourselves. We didn't make pictures for children. We didn't make pictures for adults. We made them for ourselves.''
Mr. Blanc is survived by his wife and their son, Noel."
The Voices of Mel Blanc
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Melvin Jerome Blanc.
Rest in peace Mel Blanc.
From the New York Times announcing his death at age 81
"Mel Blanc, Who Provided Voices For 3,000 Cartoons, Is Dead at 81
By PETER B. FLINT
Mel Blanc, the versatile, multi-voiced actor who breathed life into such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie, Sylvester and the Road Runner, died of heart disease and emphysema yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81 years old.
He had been admitted to the hospital on May 19.
In a career spanning six decades, Mr. Blanc helped develop nearly 400 characters and provided a rich mix of voices for some 3,000 animated cartoons. In the 1940's and 50's he supplied the voices for 90 percent of the Warner Brothers cartoon menagerie, and in the 60's he was a co-producer of ''The Bugs Bunny Show,'' an ABC-TV Saturday morning series that featured Looney Tunes characters in new adventures written for television.
In the 1960's he also contributed to ''The Flintstones,'' the first animated situation comedy created for television and the first cartoon broadcast in prime time. For that series he supplied the voices for both Barney Rubble, the dull-witted neighbor of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and Dino, the Flintstones' pet dinosaur.
Mr. Blanc was still active as he approached 80, when he made new recordings of five of his classic characters for the innovative 1988 live-animation film ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit,'' rejuvenating Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety Pie and Sylvester the cat. Played Three Instruments
Melvin Jerome Blanc was born on May 30, 1908, in San Francisco, to Frederick and Eva Katz Blanc, managers of a women's clothing business. He attended elementary and high schools in Portland, Ore., and studied music, becoming proficient on the bass, violin and sousaphone.
He married Estelle Rosenbaum in 1933 and, soon after, they won contracts to appear on a daily radio program. The sponsors could not afford to hire additional actors, so Mr. Blanc used his voice to create a repertory company.
The couple then went to Los Angeles, where Mr. Blanc joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, an innovative cartoon workshop that eventually developed Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
Mr. Blanc's first major character was Porky Pig, the shy stammerer. The second was Happy Rabbit, which he saved from oblivion by providing a new name, Bugs, from the nickname of the character's illustrator, Ben Hardaway. Mr. Blanc then developed a distinctively brash voice for the character and came up with Bugs's catchy cue: ''What's up, doc?'' Events Changed Bugs's Character
Bugs's creators were very careful in shaping his personality. Events and other characters tormented him, bringing about a change in his naturally timid rabbit nature and pushing him to take the offensive. He became mischievous, but never mean.
In an interview Mr. Blanc explained Bugs Bunny's charm this way: ''He's a little stinker. That's why people love him. He does what most people would like to do but don't have the guts to do.''
The Blanc repertory company grew to include Tweety Pie, the devious canary known for the song ''I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat''; the canary's enemy, Sylvester, whose favorite oath was ''Sssssufferin' sssssuccotash!''; the scheming Daffy Duck; the speedy ''beep-beeping'' desert bird Road Runner; the amorous French skunk Pepe le Pew; the shifty-eyed Wile E. Coyote, and the hot-tempered Yosemite Sam.
Mr. Blanc also created a dizzying range of sound effects. In the Jack Benny radio show he was Carmichael, the irascible polar bear who guarded the comedian's underground vault. He was also Mr. Benny's outspoken parrot; his violin teacher, Monsieur Le Blanc; his Mexican gardener, Sy, and even his troublesome Maxwell car.
Other roles created by Mr. Blanc were the wistful postman on ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'' and a range of characters on programs starring Abbott and Costello, Dagwood and Blondie, and Judy Canova and Al Pierce. Produced Commercials
In the 1960's Mr. Blanc formed his own company to produce and market commercials and fillers for radio and television. These included an unconventional announcement for the American Cancer Society in which a man was tortured to death by being forced to smoke one cigarette after another.
In 1976, the State of California hired Mr. Blanc to enlist his cartoon associates in producing 10 radio announcements to warn residents how to prepare for a major earthquake, how to survive one and what to do afterward.
In one announcement Bugs asks, ''What do I do when the shaking stops?'' Daffy replies, ''Stay away from damaged structures and power lines and remember to stay calm.'' Had Two Hit Records
Mr. Blanc maintained a lifelong interest in music, and composed a handful of songs. Two of them, ''I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat'' and ''The Woody Woodpecker Song,'' each sold more than two million records.
Mr. Blanc and his wife lived for many years in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where Mr. Blanc was the honorary mayor.
He had an insatiable curiosity about all kinds of sounds. ''When I was a kid,'' he said, ''I used to look at animals and wonder, how would that kitten sound if it could talk. I'd tighten up my throat and make a very small voice, not realizing I was rehearsing.''
In 1985, he described his creative efforts thus: ''What we tried to do was amuse ourselves. We didn't make pictures for children. We didn't make pictures for adults. We made them for ourselves.''
Mr. Blanc is survived by his wife and their son, Noel."
The Voices of Mel Blanc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HlmucGrYFg
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