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Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters, and the de facto archenemy of Bugs Bunny. He has one of the more.

, 'Banjo Chickie-Boom', 'Any Bonds Today?' , 'We're in to Win', 'Gee Whiz Willigans', 'Daffy Drum Boogie', 'The Old Soft Shoe', 'I Can't Get Along, Little Dogie', 'Wee Widdle Bird', 'Pussycat's Parade', 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips', 'Halloween Gavotte', 'Columbus Day Rag', 'Irish Jig', 'Yankee Doodle', 'Jingle Bells').

• Voice actor • radio comedian • recording artist Years active 1927–1989 Known for (1937–1989) (1939–1965) Spouse(s) Estelle Rosenbaum ( m. 1933; his death 1989) Children Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor, radio comedian, and recording artist. After beginning his 60-plus-year career performing in radio, he became known for his work in as the voices of,,,,,,,,,,, the, and many of the other characters from the and during the. He voiced all of the major male cartoon characters except for, whose voice was provided (uncredited) by fellow radio actor, although Blanc later voiced Fudd as well after Bryan's death. He later played characters for 's television cartoons, including on and on. Blanc was also the original voice of for, and provided vocal effects for the cartoons directed by for.

During the, Blanc also frequently performed on the radio programs of famous comedians from the era, including,,, and. Having earned the nickname 'The Man of a Thousand Voices', Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Blanc was born in, to parents Frederick and Eva Blank, the younger of two children.

He grew up in the neighborhood of in San Francisco, and later in where he attended. Growing up, he had a fondness for voices and dialect which he began voicing at the age of 10.

He claimed that he changed the spelling of his name when he was 16, from 'Blank' to 'Blanc', because a teacher told him that he would amount to nothing and be like his name, a 'blank'. Blanc joined the as a young man, and was eventually inducted into its Hall of Fame. After graduating from high school in 1927, he split his time between leading an orchestra, becoming the youngest conductor in the country at the age of 19, and performing in shows around Washington, Oregon, and northern California. Career [ ] Radio work [ ] Blanc began his radio career at the age of 19 in 1927, when he made his acting debut on the program The Hoot Owls, where his ability to provide voices for multiple characters first attracted attention.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1932, where he met Estelle Rosenbaum (1909–2003), whom he married a year later, before returning to Portland. He moved to in 1933 to produce and co-host his Cobweb and Nuts show with his wife Estelle, which debuted on June 15. The program played Monday through Saturday from 11:00 pm to midnight, and by the time the show ended two years later, it appeared from 10:30 pm to 11:00 pm. With his wife's encouragement, Blanc returned to Los Angeles and joined Warner Bros.–owned in in 1935. He joined The Johnny Murray Show, but the following year switched to Radio and The Show. :, voiced by Blanc in 1943 In December 1936, Mel Blanc joined, which was producing theatrical cartoon shorts for Warner Bros.

After sound man was put in charge of cartoon voices, and became music director, Brown introduced Blanc to animation directors,,, and, who loved his voices. The first cartoon Blanc worked on was Picador Porky (1937) as the voice of a drunken bull. He soon after received his first starring role when he replaced as Porky Pig's voice in, which marked the debut of Daffy Duck, also voiced by Blanc. Following this, Blanc became a very prominent vocal artist for Warner Bros., voicing a wide variety of the 'Looney Tunes' characters. Bugs Bunny, whom Blanc made his debut as in (1940), was known for eating carrots frequently (especially while saying his catchphrase 'Eh, what's up, doc?' To follow this sound with the animated voice, Blanc would bite into a carrot and then quickly spit into a. One oft-repeated story is that Blanc was allergic to carrots, which Blanc denied.

In 's, Blanc was hired to perform the voice of Gideon the Cat. However, Gideon eventually was decided to be a mute character (similar to Dopey from ), so all of Blanc's recorded dialogue was deleted except for a solitary hiccup, which was heard three times in the finished film.

Blanc also originated the voice and laugh of for the theatrical cartoons produced by for, but stopped voicing the character after he was signed to an exclusive contract with Warner Bros. During World War II, Blanc served as the voice of the hapless in various war-themed animated shorts. Throughout his career, Blanc, aware of his talents, protected the rights to his voice characterizations contractually and legally. He, and later his estate, never hesitated taking civil action when those rights were violated.

Voice actors at the time rarely received screen credits, but Blanc was an exception; by 1944, his contract with Warner Bros. Stipulated a credit reading 'Voice characterization(s) by Mel Blanc.' According to his autobiography, Blanc asked for and received this screen credit from studio boss after he was denied a salary raise. Initially, Blanc's screen credit was limited only to cartoons where he voiced Bugs Bunny, with any other shorts he worked on being uncredited. In the middle of 1945, the contract was amended to include a screen credit for cartoons featuring Porky Pig and/or Daffy Duck as well, save for any shorts made before that amendment occurred ( and are examples, despite being released after the fact). But by the end of 1946, Blanc began receiving a screen credit in any subsequent Warner Bros. Cartoon he provided voices from that point on.

Voice work for Hanna-Barbera and others [ ] In 1960, after the expiration of his exclusive contract with Warner Bros., Blanc continued working for WB, but also began providing voices for the TV cartoons produced by; his most famous roles during this time were Barney Rubble of The Flintstones and of The Jetsons. His other voice roles for Hanna-Barbara included,,, and, as well as voices for and.

Blanc also worked with former 'Looney Tunes' director Chuck Jones, who by this time was directing shorts with his own company Sib Tower 12 (later ); doing vocal effects for the series from 1963 to 1967. Blanc was the first voice of in commercials.

Blanc reprised some of his Warner Bros. Characters when the studio contracted him to make in the mid-to-late 1960s. For these, Blanc voiced Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales, the characters who received the most frequent use in these shorts (later, newly introduced characters such as Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse were voiced by ). Blanc also continued to voice the 'Looney Tunes' for the bridging sequences of, as well as in numerous animated advertisements and several compilation features, such as (1979). Car accident and aftermath [ ] On January 24, 1961, Blanc was involved in a near-fatal car accident. He was driving alone when his sports car with a car driven by 18-year-old college student Arthur Rolston on.

Rolston suffered minor injuries, but Blanc was rushed to the with a triple skull fracture that left him in a coma for two weeks, along with sustaining fractures to both legs and the pelvis. About two weeks after the accident, one of Blanc's neurologists tried a different approach. Blanc was asked, 'How are you feeling today, Bugs Bunny?' After a slight pause, Blanc answered, in a weak voice, 'Eh. Just fine, Doc.

How are you?' The doctor then asked Tweety if he was there, too. 'I tot I taw a puddy tat,' was the reply. Blanc returned home on March 17. Four days later, Blanc filed a US$500,000 lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles. His accident, one of 26 in the preceding two years at the intersection known as, resulted in the city funding the restructuring of curves at the location. Years later, Blanc revealed that during his recovery, his son 'ghosted' several Warner Bros.

Cartoons' voice tracks for him. Had also asked to provide the voice for Bugs Bunny, but Freberg declined, out of respect for Blanc. At the time of the accident, Blanc was also serving as the voice of Barney Rubble in The Flintstones.

His absence from the show was relatively brief; provided the voice of Barney for a few episodes, after which the show's producers set up recording equipment in Blanc's hospital room and later at his home to allow him to work from there. Some of the recordings were made while he was in full-body cast as he lay flat on his back with the other Flintstones co-stars gathered around him. He also returned to The Jack Benny Program to film the program's 1961 Christmas show, moving around by crutches and a wheelchair.

Blanc in 1976 Later career [ ] In the 1970s, Blanc gave a series of college lectures across the US and appeared in commercials for. He also collaborated on a special with the Boston-based Shriners Burns Institute called Ounce of Prevention, which became a 30-minute TV special. Throughout the 1980s, Blanc performed his characters for bridging sequences in various compilation films of Warner Bros.

Cartoons, such as,,, and. His final performance of his 'Looney Tunes' roles was in Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports (1989). After spending most of two seasons voicing the diminutive robot Twiki in, Blanc's last original character was, in the early 1980s. In the 1983 live-action film, Blanc voiced the father of, at the request of comedian. In the 1988 live-action/animated movie, Blanc reprised several of his classic 'Looney Tunes' roles (Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and Sylvester), but left Yosemite Sam to (who later became one of Blanc's regular replacements until his death in 2016).

As produced the film, the company had to obtain permission from Warner Bros. And other studios in order to feature the non-Disney characters in the movie.

The film was also the only other Disney film Blanc was involved in after Pinocchio more than 45 years prior. Blanc died just a year after the film's release. His final recording session was for (1990). • ^ Flint, Peter B. (July 11, 1989)... Retrieved June 26, 2008.

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. Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved February 5, 2013. • (November 24, 1988)... Retrieved July 8, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2014.

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