Mel Blanc

Biography

Mel Blanc is known as "The Man of Thousand Voices" and is generally regarded as the most prolific actor to ever work in Hollywood. He developed and performed nearly 400 distinct character voices with his skill and expressive vocal range. A legendary voice specialist from radio programs, television series, cartoon shorts and movies. He was rarely seen by his audience but his characterizations were famous around the world. He was under exclusive contract to Warner Brothers until 1960 he voiced virtually every major character in the Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoon pantheon, including Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Tweety Bird & Sylvester the Cat, Wile E. Coyote & The Roadrunner, Yosemite Sam, Sam the Sheepdog, Taz the Tazmanian Devil, Speedy Gonzalez, Marvin the Martian, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé la Pew, Charlie the Dog, Blacque Jacque Shellacque, Pussyfoot, Private Snafu among others. In 1960 he continued to work for work for Warner Brothers after his exclusive contract ended. He began to work for Hanna-Barbera voicing Barney Rubble, Dino the Dinosaur, Cosmo Spacely, Secret Squirrel, Captain Caveman , Speed Buggy, Wally Gator among others. He also worked with Chuck Jones at what would become MGM Animation providing vocal effects for Tom & Jerry in the mid 1960's. He would originate and voice the Toucan Sam in the Kellogg's Fruit Loops commercials. He would originate voice Twiki for Buck Rodgers and Heathcliff in the late 1970's and early 1980's. He would trained his son Noel Blanc in voice acting to replace him.