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

Main Movie Roles 2003 - Looney Tunes: Back in Action 2000 - The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 1996 - Space Jam 1994 - The Flintstones 1991 - Rover Dangerfield 1990 - Jetsons: The Movie 1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 - Daffy Duck's Quackbusters 1986 - Howard the Duck 1970 - The Phantom Tollbooth 1967 - The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. 1966 - The A-Tom-inable Snowman 1964 - Hey There, It's Yogi Bear 1963 - Palm Springs Weekend 1962 - Gay Purr-ee 1962 - Days Of Wine And Roses 1961 - Snow White and the Three Stooges 1961 - Breakfast at Tiffany's 1959 - People Are Bunny 1955 - Speedy Gonzales 1953 - Bully for Bugs 1952 - A Bird in a Guilty Cage 1952 - Jack and the Beanstalk 1951 - Big Top Bunny 1951 - Ballot Box Bunny 1950 - Champagne For Caesar 1950 - Big House Bunny 1949 - Neptune's Daughter 1949 - It's a Great Feeling 1949 - My Dream is Yours 1947 - One Meat Brawl 1946 - Baseball Bugs 1943 - A Corny Concerto 1943 - Tokio Jokio 1942 - Horton Hatches the Egg 1940 - Pinocchio 1940 - Broadway Melody of 1940

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 recognised 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:

• 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.
• 1/24/61: Was in a near-fatal car accident while many of the shows that required his services, most importantly _"The Flintstones" (1960)_ (qv), were still in production. He did the voices of his characters in both his home bed and his hospital bed, in a full body cast and with all his "Flintstones" co-stars and recording equipment crowded into the same room.
• 'Jack Benny' (qv) once said of him, "There are only five real people in Hollywood. Everybody else is Mel Blanc.".
• Shared first name as well as voice booth time with friend 'Mel Tormé' (qv).
• Biography in Smith, Ronald S., "Who's Who in Comedy," pp. 54-55. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387.
• Sylvester the Cat was modeled after Blanc's character Sylvester on CBS Radio's "The 'Judy Canova' (qv) Show" during the early 1940s.
• The sound Bugs makes while munching a carrot is actually Mel Blanc munching on a carrot. He tried using celery, raw potatoes, and a lot of other things, but only a carrot would make that carrot crunching sound. According to Noel Blanc, Mel's son, Mel was not in fact allergic to carrots as was previously thought by many. People who worked in the sound studios believed this because they would see Mel spitting out the carrot after taking a bite. Mel did this because he could not speak with the carrot in his mouth and that was the only reason he spat it out.
• 1966: Received the French Legion of Honor.