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 Flintstone Comedy Hour Barney Rubble Dino The Jack Benny Program Polly The Dick Tracy Show Go Go Gomez Yogi's Gang Secret Squi… Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats Heathcliff The Daffy Duck Show Daffy Duck Pepe Le Pew Foghorn Leg… Porky Pig Speedy Gonz… Tweety Sylvester Yosemite Sam Secret Squirrel Show Secret Squi… Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels Captain Cav… Heathcliff (1980) Heathcliff Speed Buggy Speed Buggy 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 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch (1971) Salem Spell… Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo Barney Rubble Dino 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:

• Shortly before his death, executives of Time Warner (owners of Warner Bros.) asked him if there was anything, literally anything, that they could give him to thank him for his life's body of work. He asked for-- and received--a Ford Edsel.
• Profiled in "Old-Time Radio Memories" by Mel Simons (BearManor Media).
• Originally, the sound of the Maxwell car on 'Jack Benny' (qv)'s radio show was a pre-recorded sound effect on a phonograph record. During a live broadcast, however, Blanc noticed that the record player wasn't turned on for the crucial moment when the effect was supposed to play. He quickly grabbed the microphone and improvised the sounds himself, to the utter delight of the studio audience. Benny made it part of the program from then on and gave Blanc much larger parts to play in the show.
• Blanc legally changed his last name from Blank to Blanc because of a nasty school teacher who used to make fun of it.
• 4/27/87: Inducted into the DeMolay Hall of Fame.
• Mel was such a consummate method actor that it was said that when he was in a sound booth doing a character, one could tell exactly which character he was doing without hearing his lines.
• 'Jack Benny' (qv) once said of him, "There are only five real people in Hollywood. Everybody else is Mel Blanc.".
• According to his son 'Noel Blanc' (qv), of all the cartoon characters he voiced, the one that was the closest to his actual voice was Sylvester the Cat, only without the lisp.