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 Yosemite Sam Pepe Le Pew Tweety Sylvester Foghorn Leg… 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.".
• 'Jack Benny' (qv) once said of him, "There are only five real people in Hollywood. Everybody else is Mel Blanc.".
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Biography in "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume Two, 1986- 1990, pp. 112-113. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
• During World War II, he provided the voice of Pvt. Snafu in training films for the soldiers. Interestingly enough, some of these training films were written by Theodor S. Geisel, better known as 'Dr. Seuss' (qv).