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… The Daffy Duck Show Daffy Duck Pepe Le Pew Foghorn Leg… Porky Pig Speedy Gonz… Tweety Sylvester Yosemite Sam Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels Captain Cav… 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:

• His license plate read "KMIT." A representative at the California Department of Motor Vehicles asked him if it stood for a radio station, since it is illegal to advertise on a plate. He replied, "No, that's actually an old Jewish expression, 'know me in truth.'" What it actually stood for was "kish mir im tuchis," a Yiddish phrase meaning "Kiss my ass.".
• 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.
• Biography in Smith, Ronald S., "Who's Who in Comedy," pp. 54-55. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387.
• Originally, voice artists were not given screen credit on animated cartoons. After he was turned down for a raise by tight-fisted producer 'Leon Schlesinger' (qv), Blanc suggested they add his name as Vocal Characterizationist to the credits as a compromise and omitted the name of any other voice actor that worked on the cartoon. Not only did it give greater recognition to voice artists from then on, it helped to bring Blanc to the public eye and quickly brought him more work in radio.
• Epitaph on headstone at his burial site in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood reads, "That's All, Folks!".
• He appeared in a television commercial for the American Express charge card, where he performed several character voices in quick succession. After his death, American Express began running the commercial again, showing his name with birth and death years on the bottom of the screen at the end of the commercial, both to promote their card, and pay tribute to the vocal genius.
• Biography in "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume Two, 1986- 1990, pp. 112-113. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
• 1966: Received the French Legion of Honor.