Mel Blanc's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Flintstones Barney Rubble The Jetsons Cosmo S. Sp… Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Sylvester Tweety Wile E. Coy… Road Runner Foghorn Leg… Porky Pig The Bugs Bunny Show Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Porky Pig Yosemite Sam Sylvester Tweety Foghorn Leg… Pepe Le Pew The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show Bugs Bunny Tweety Sylvester Road Runner Speedy Gonz… Wile E. Coy… Yosemite Sam Porky Pig Pepe LePew Daffy Duck Foghorn Leg… Marvin the … Henery Hawk Mr. Magoo Tycoon Magoo Charles The Flintstone Kids Barney Rubble Dino The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour Bugs Bunny Road Runner Wile E. Coy… Daffy Duck Tweety Sylvester Pepe LePew Yosemite Sam Porky Pig Speedy Gonz… Foghorn Leg… Marvin Mart… Fred Flintstone & Friends Barney Rubble Dino The Road Runner Show Road Runner Wile E. Coy… The Porky Pig Show Porky Pig Pepe Le Pew Foghorn Leg… Tweety Speedy Gonz… Sam Sheepdog Marvin the … Sylvester Goofy Gophe… Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Jr. Beaky Buzzard Charlie Dog The Magilla Gorilla Show Droop-A-Long The Flintstone Comedy Show Barney Rubble Dino Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics Speed Buggy Captain Cav… Yogi's Treasure Hunt Secret Squi… Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck The Jack Benny Program Polly The Flintstone Comedy Hour Barney Rubble Dino The Dick Tracy Show Go Go Gomez Yogi's Gang Secret Squi… Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats Heathcliff Secret Squirrel Show Secret Squi… Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels Captain Cav… The Daffy Duck Show Daffy Duck Pepe Le Pew Foghorn Leg… Porky Pig Speedy Gonz… Tweety Sylvester Yosemite Sam Speed Buggy Speed Buggy Heathcliff (1980) Heathcliff The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show Secret Squi… Perils of Penelope Pitstop Yak Yak Chug-a-Boom Bully Broth… The Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Show Barney Rubble The New Fred and Barney Show Barney Rubble Dino Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo Barney Rubble Dino Sabrina, The Teenage Witch (1971) Salem Spell… Fred and Barney Meet the Thing Barney Rubble Dino Where's Huddles? Bubba McCoy

Main Movie Roles

BIOGRAPHY:

Voice specialist from radio, movies and TV rarely seen by his widespread audience. On 1940s radio, for example, his voice supplied the sound effects for the comedian 'Jack Benny's antique "Maxwell" automobile's gasping and wheezing and struggling to crank up. More widely recognized as the voice of virtually every major character in the Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon, including Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety & Sylvester both, Yosemite Sam, et al. Since Blanc's death, his son 'Noel Blanc' has taken up some of his father's mantle.


TRIVIA:

• Only got his start at Warner Brothers after one of their voice actors died.
• Shared first name as well as voice booth time with friend 'Mel Tormé' (qv).
• Played boarder Tiffany Twiggs in the radio series "Major Hoople," which debuted on NBC's Blue Network on June 22, 1942. Based on Gene Ahern's comic strip "Our Boarding House," the radio series starred 'Arthur Q. Bryan' (qv) as Major Hoople and 'Patsy Moran' (qv) as the Major's wife, Martha Hoople, who ran the boarding house (Bryan would later become the voice of Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny's nemesis). The 30-minute program, which aired on Mondays at 7 pm, went off the air on April 26, 1943.
• 1961: He was the voice of Speedy Gonzalez [sic] in the hit record of the same name by 'Pat Boone (I)' (qv). Blanc actually ad-libbed most of his dialogue, since the record was Boone's version of a song recorded by another artist earlier that year, in which the character had very little dialogue.
• While in a coma after a cataclysmic automobile accident, doctors unsuccessfully tried to get Mel to talk. Finally, a doctor, who was also a fan of his cartoon characters, asked Mel, "Bugs? Bugs Bunny? Are you there?" Mel responded, in Bugs Bunny's voice, "What's up, Doc?" After talking with several other characters, they eventually led Mel out of his coma.
• Many of the voices he did for Looney Tunes were sped up after being recorded. Examples are Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck. Porky's voice sounds a little like Bugs' voice before being sped, and Daffy's voice is Sylvester's voice sans the slobbering.
• Biography in Smith, Ronald S., "Who's Who in Comedy," pp. 54-55. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387.
• Blanc legally changed his last name from Blank to Blanc because of a nasty school teacher who used to make fun of it.