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Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the
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, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those of
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,
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,
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, and his own short-lived sitcom. However, he became known worldwide for his work in the Golden Age of American Animation as the voices of
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, Porky Pig, and numerous other characters from the ''
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'' and ''
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'' theatrical cartoons. He later voiced characters for
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's television cartoons, including
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and Dino on ''
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'', Mr. Spacely on ''
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'', Secret Squirrel on ''
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'', and Captain Caveman on ''
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''. Referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", he is regarded as one of the most influential people in the
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industry, and as one of the greatest
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of all time.


Early life

Blanc was born on May 30, 1908 in
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,
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, to Eva (née Katz), a
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immigrant, and Frederick Blank (born in New York to
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Jewish parents), the younger of two children. He grew up in San Francisco's
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neighborhood, and later in
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, where he attended Lincoln High School. He had an early fondness for voices and dialect, which he began practicing 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". He joined the
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as a young man, and was eventually inducted into its Hall of Fame. After graduating from high school in 1927, he divided his time between leading an orchestra, becoming the youngest conductor in the country at the age of 19; and performing ''
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'' in
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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
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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 KEX 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. File:Private Snafu - Booby Traps.ogv,
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With his wife's encouragement, Blanc returned to Los Angeles and joined Warner Bros.–owned
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in Hollywood in 1935. He joined ''The Johnny Murray Show'', but the following year switched to
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Radio and ''The
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Show''. Blanc was a regular on the
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Red Network show ''
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'' in various roles, including voicing Benny's
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(in desperate need of a tune-up), violin teacher Professor LeBlanc, Polly the Parrot, Benny's pet polar bear Carmichael and the train announcer. The first role came from a mishap when the recording of the automobile's sounds failed to play on cue, prompting Blanc to take the microphone and improvise the sounds himself. The audience reacted so positively that Benny decided to dispense with the recording altogether and have Blanc continue in that role. One of Blanc's characters from Benny's radio (and later TV) programs was "Sy, the Little Mexican", who spoke one word at a time. He continued to work with Benny on radio until the series ended in 1955 and followed the program into television from Benny's 1950 debut episode through guest spots on NBC specials in the 1970s. ''Radio Daily'' magazine wrote in 1942 that Blanc "specialize in over fifty-seven voices, dialects, and intricate sound effects", and by 1946, he was appearing on over fifteen programs in various supporting roles. His success on ''The Jack Benny Program'' led to his own radio show on the
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, ''
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'', which ran from September 3, 1946, to June 24, 1947. Blanc played himself as the hapless owner of a fix-it shop, as well as his young cousin Zookie. Blanc also appeared on such other national radio programs as ''The
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Show'', the Happy Postman on ''
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'', and as August Moon on ''Point Sublime''. During World War II, he appeared as Private Sad Sack on various radio shows, including ''G.I. Journal''. Blanc recorded a song titled "Big Bear Lake".


Animation voice work during the golden age of Hollywood

In December 1936, Mel Blanc joined
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, which was producing theatrical cartoon shorts for
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After sound man
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was put in charge of cartoon voices, and
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became music director, Brown introduced Blanc to animation directors
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,
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,
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, and Frank Tashlin, 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
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as Porky Pig's voice in ''
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'', 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, as whom Blanc made his debut in ''
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'' (1940),Adamson, Joe (1990). ''Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare''. New York: Henry Holt. 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
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. One often-repeated story is that Blanc was allergic to carrots, which Blanc denied. In
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's ''
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'', 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 ''
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''), 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
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for the theatrical cartoons produced by
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for
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, but stopped voicing Woody after the character's first three shorts when he was signed to an exclusive contract with Warner Bros. Despite this, his laugh was still used in the ''Woody Woodpecker'' cartoons until 1951, when Grace Stafford recorded a softer version, while his "Guess who!?" signature line was used in the opening titles until the end of the series and closure of
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in 1972. During World War II, Blanc served as the voice of the hapless
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in a series of shorts produced by Warner Bros. as a way of training recruited soldiers through the medium of animation. 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 to take 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
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after he was denied a salary raise. Initially, Blanc's screen credit was limited only to cartoons in which he voiced Bugs Bunny. This changed in March 1945 when the contract was amended to also include a screen credit for cartoons featuring Porky Pig and/or Daffy Duck. This however, excluded any shorts with the two characters made before that amendment occurred, even if they released after the fact (''Book Revue'' and ''
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'' are both examples of this). By the end of 1946, Blanc began receiving a screen credit in any subsequent Warner Bros. cartoon for which he provided voices.


Voice work for Hanna-Barbera and others

In 1960, after the expiration of his exclusive contract with Warner Bros., Blanc continued working for them, but also began providing voices for the TV cartoons produced by
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; his roles during this time included
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of ''
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'' and
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of ''The Jetsons''. His other voice roles for Hanna-Barbera included Dino the Dinosaur,
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,
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, and
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, as well as voices for ''
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'' and ''
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''. 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
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), doing vocal effects for the ''
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'' series from 1963 to 1967. Blanc was the first voice of
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in
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commercials. Blanc reprised some of his Warner Bros. characters when the studio contracted him to make new theatrical cartoons in the mid- to late 1960s. For these, Blanc voiced Daffy Duck and
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, 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
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). Blanc also continued to voice the "Looney Tunes" for the bridging sequences of ''
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'', as well as in numerous animated advertisements and several compilation features, such as ''
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'' (1979). He also voiced Granny on
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in ''4 More Adventures of Bugs Bunny'' (1974) and ''Holly-Daze'' (1974), in place of
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, and replaced the late Arthur Q. Bryan as Elmer Fudd's voice during the post-golden age era.


Car accident and aftermath

On January 24, 1961, Blanc was driving alone when his sports car was involved in a
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on
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; his legs and his pelvis were fractured as a result. About two weeks later, one of Blanc's neurologists at the
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tried a different approach than just trying to address the unconscious Blanc himself: address his characters. 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
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if he was there, too. "I tawt 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
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, resulted in the city funding the restructuring of curves at the location. Years later, Blanc revealed that during his recovery, his son Noel "ghosted" several Warner Bros. cartoons' voice tracks for him. Warner Bros. had also asked
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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
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in ''
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''. His absence from the show was relatively brief;
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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 returned to ''The Jack Benny Program'' to film the program's 1961 Christmas show, moving around by crutches and a wheelchair.


Later years

In the 1970s, Blanc gave a series of college lectures across the US and appeared in commercials for
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. Mel's production company, Blanc Communications Corporation, collaborated on a special with the Boston-based Shriners' Burns Institute called ''Ounce of Prevention'', which became a 30-minute TV special. Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Blanc performed his "Looney Tunes" characters for bridging sequences in various compilation films of Golden Age-era Warner Bros. cartoons, such as ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. 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 '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'', Blanc's last original character was Heathcliff from 1980 to 1988. In the live-action film ''
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'' (1983), Blanc voiced the father of Bob and Doug MacKenzie, at the request of comedian
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. In the live-action/animated movie ''
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'' (1988), Blanc reprised several of his roles from Warner Bros. cartoons (Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and Sylvester), but left
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to Joe Alaskey (who later became one of Blanc's regular replacements until his death in 2016). The film was one of the few
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projects in which Blanc was involved. Blanc died just a year after the film's release. His final recording session was for '' Jetsons: The Movie'' (1990). On January 29, 1962, Mel and his son Noel formed Blanc Communications Corporation, a media company which produced over 5000 public service announcements and commercials, which remains in operation. Mel and Noel appeared with many stars, including
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, and
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.


Personal life

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


Death

Blanc began smoking cigarettes when he was 9 years old. He continued his pack-a-day habit until age 77, after he was diagnosed with
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. On May 19, 1989, his family checked him into
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in Los Angeles when they noticed he had a bad cough while shooting a commercial. He was originally expected to recover, but when his health worsened, doctors discovered he had advanced
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. After nearly two months in hospital, Blanc died on July 10, 1989 at Cedars-Sinai of complications from both illnesses. He was 81. He is interred in
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section 13, Pinewood section, plot #149 in Hollywood. His will specified that his gravestone read ""—the phrase with which Blanc's character, Porky Pig, concluded Warner Bros. cartoons.


Legacy

Blanc is regarded as the most prolific voice actor in entertainment history. He was the first voice actor to receive on-screen credit. His death was considered a significant loss to the cartoon industry because of his skill, expressive range, and the sheer number of the continuing characters he portrayed, whose roles were subsequently assumed by several other voice talents. As film critic
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observed, "It is astounding to realize that Tweety Bird and Yosemite Sam are the same man!" Blanc said that Sylvester the Cat was the easiest character for him to voice, because "
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just my normal speaking voice with a spray at the end"; and that Yosemite Sam was the hardest, because of his loudness and raspyness. A doctor who examined Blanc's throat found that he possessed unusually thick, powerful vocal cords that gave him an exceptional range, and compared them to those of opera singer
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. After his death, Blanc's voice continued to be heard in newly released productions, such as recordings of Dino the Dinosaur in the live-action films ''
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'' (1994) and ''
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'' (2000). Similarly, recordings of Blanc as Jack Benny's Maxwell were featured in '' Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' (2003). More recently, archive recordings of Blanc have been featured in new
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-animated "Looney Tunes" theatrical shorts; ''
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'' (shown with ''
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'') and ''
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'' (shown with '' Journey 2: The Mysterious Island''). For his contributions to the radio industry, Blanc has a star on the
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at 6385
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. His character Bugs Bunny was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on December 10, 1985. Blanc trained his son Noel in the field of voice characterization. Noel performed his father's characters (particularly Porky Pig) on some programs, but did not become a full-time voice artist. Warner Bros. expressed reluctance to have a single voice actor succeed Blanc, and employed multiple new voice actors to fill the roles in the 1990s, including Noel Blanc,
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, Joe Alaskey and
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.


Filmography


Radio


Film


Television


Video games


Live-action


Discography

*Yah, Das Ist Ein Christmas Tree and I Tan't Wait Til Quithmuth Day (Capitol, 1950, Album CAS-3191) *''Clink, Clink, Another Drink'' (
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, 1942) as Drunk *''Bugs Bunny Stories for Children'' (
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, 1947)"Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Capitol Records Discography, 1946-1954"
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as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, additional voices *''The Woody Woodpecker Song'' (Capitol, 1948)
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as Woody Woodpecker *''Bugs Bunny and the Tortoise'' (Capitol, 1948) as Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle, Daffy Duck, Henery Hawk, additional voices *''That's All Folks!'' (Capitol, 1948) as Porky Pig *''Won't You Ever Get Together With Me'' (Capitol, 1948) as Tweety, Sylvester *''Bugs Bunny in Storyland'' (Capitol, 1949)""Bugs Bunny in Storyland": The Good, The Bad, and the Bugs"
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as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Beaky Buzzard, Old King Cole, Fiddlers Three, Mary's Lamb, Bo Peep's Sheep, Big Bad Wolf *''Woody Woodpecker and His Talent Show'' (Capitol, 1949)"A Birthday Look at Mel Blanc's Woody Woodpecker Records"
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as Woody Woodpecker, Stanley Squirrel, Billy Goat, Plato Platypus, Fido, Happy Hedgehog, Harry Humbug *''Bugs Bunny Sings with Daffy Duck, Tweety Pie, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester'' (Capitol, 1950) as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester *''Bugs Bunny Meets Hiawatha'' (Capitol, 1950) as Bugs Bunny *''Daffy Duck Meets Yosemite Sam'' (Capitol, 1950) as Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam *''Tweety Pie'' (Capitol, 1950) as Tweety, Sylvester *''Woody Woodpecker's Picnic'' (Capitol, 1951) as Woody Woodpecker, Tommy Turtle, English Bulldog, German Shepherd, Irish Setter, Scotty *''Henery Hawk'' (Capitol, 1951) as Henery Hawk, Foghorn Leghorn, Daffy Duck *''Tweety's Puddy Tat Twouble'' (Capitol, 1951) as Tweety, Sylvester *''Tweet, Tweet, Tweety'' (Capitol, 1952) as Tweety, Sylvester *''Bugs Bunny and the Grow-Small Juice'' (Capitol, 1952) as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck *''Henery Hawk's Chicken Hunt'' (Capitol, 1952) as Henery Hawk, Foghorn Leghorn, additional voices *''Bugs Bunny and Aladdin's Lamp'' (Capitol, 1952) as Bugs Bunny, Genie *''Woody Woodpecker and the Scarecrow'' (Capitol, 1952) as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices *''Daffy Duck's Feathered Friend'' (Capitol, 1952) as Daffy Duck *''Sylvester and Hippety Hopper'' (Capitol, 1952) as Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., additional voices *''Woody Woodpecker and the Animal Crackers'' (Capitol, 1953) as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices *''Woody Woodpecker and the Lost Monkey'' (Capitol, 1953) as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices *''Bugs Bunny and Rabbit Seasoning'' (Capitol, 1953) as Bugs Bunny *''Snowbound Tweety'' (Capitol, 1953) as Tweety, Sylvester *''Woody Woodpecker and His Spaceship'' (Capitol, 1953) as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices *''Wild West Henery Hawk'' (Capitol, 1953) as Henery Hawk, Foghorn Leghorn, additional voices *''Pied Piper Pussycat'' (Capitol, 1953) as Sylvester, additional voices *''Daffy Duck's Duck Inn'' (Capitol, 1954) as Daffy Duck, Dog *''Bugs Bunny and the Pirate'' (Capitol, 1954) as Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam *''Woody Woodpecker and the Truth Tonic'' (Capitol, 1954) as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices *''Tweety's Good Deed'' (Capitol, 1954) as Tweety, Sylvester, additional voices *''Woody Woodpecker's Fairy Godmother'' (Capitol, 1955) as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices *''Woody Woodpecker in Mixed-Up Land'' (Capitol, 1955) as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices *''Woody Woodpecker Meets Davy Crockett'' (Capitol, 1955) as Woody Woodpecker, additional voices *''Woody Woodpecker's Family Album'' (
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, 1957) as Pepito, Sailor, Malamute,
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, Fluten Bluten, Heinie the Hyena, Homer Pigeon, Cuckoo,
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*''Bugs Bunny Songfest'' (
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, 1961) as Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Henery Hawk, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Hippety Hopper, Foghorn Leghorn, Cicero Pig *''
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'' ( Dot, 1962) as Speedy Gonzales *''Magilla Gorilla and His Pals'' (Golden, 1964) as Droop-A-Long *''The Flintstones: Flip Fables'' (Hanna-Barbera, 1965)"Flintstone Bedtime Stories"
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as Barney Rubble, Chubby, Tubby, Stubby, Landlord, Beowolfe *''The Flintstones: Hansel and Gretel'' (Hanna-Barbera, 1965) as Barney Rubble, Hansel, Gretel, Strudelmeyer, Fang, Witch, Reporter *''Treasure Island Starring Sinbad, Jr.'' (Hanna-Barbera, 1965) as Salty *''Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole in: Super Spy'' (Hanna-Barbera, 1965) as Secret Squirrel, Tyrone *''The New Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?'' (Hanna-Barbera, 1966) as Barney Rubble, March Hare, Prosecuting Attorney/King's Son *''The Flintstones Meet the Orchestra Family'' (
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, 1968) as Barney Rubble *''The New Adventures of Bugs Bunny'' (
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, 1973) as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Petunia Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Pablo, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, additional voices *''Four More Adventures of Bugs Bunny'' (Peter Pan, 1974) as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Petunia Pig, Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, additional voices *''Holly Daze'' (Peter Pan, 1974)"Bugs Bunny's High-Fructose Christmas Record"
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as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Granny, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, Junior, Santa Claus, Narrator, Radio Announcer *''Looney Tunes Learn About Numbers'' (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986) as Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, additional voices *''Looney Tunes Learn About The Alphabet'' (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986) as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, additional voices *''Looney Tunes Learn About Going To School'' (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986) as Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., Tweety, additional voices *''Looney Tunes Learn About Sing-Along Songs'' (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986) as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, additional voices *''Looney Tunes Learn About Colors'' (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986) as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, additional voices *''Looney Tunes Learn About Shapes and Sizes'' (Warner Audio Publishing, 1986) as Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, additional voices


References


Bibliography

* ''That's Not All, Folks!'', 1988 by Mel Blanc, Philip Bashe. Warner Books, (Softcover), (Hardcover) * Terrace, Vincent. ''Radio Programs, 1924–1984''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.


External links

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