Who was the voice of Bugs Bunny?

Susan Mann

Mel Blanc. http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0760218.html [Link added Feb. 22, 2008 by Zbeckabee] Jun 21 00, 10:52 PM

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Mel Blanc, b. May 30, 1908, San Francisco, Calif., d. July 10, 1989, Los Angeles, Calif. by name of MELVIN JEROME BLANC, American entertainer, who created more than 400 unique voices and much of the character of a number of popular radio, television, and motion-picture characters, including voices for the cartoon characters Porky Pig, Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety Pie, Sylvester the Cat, the French skunk Pepe le Pew, and Bugs Bunny (noted for the catch phrase 'What's up, Doc?'). Blanc was interested in music at an early age and became proficient on the bass, the violin, and the sousaphone. In 1933 he joined a daily radio program and used several voices to 'provide a cast' for the show. After moving to Los Angeles, Blanc joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, a cartoon workshop that later developed Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Blanc's first Warner Brothers voice was that of a drunken bull in 1936. The following year he became the voices of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, and in 1940 Bugs Bunny (first named Happy Rabbit) made his debut. During more than 50 years in show business, Blanc provided voices for some 3,000 animated cartoons, and during the 1940s and '50s he was responsible for the voices of 90 percent of the Warner Brothers cartoon stable. In the 1960s he was co-producer of 'The Bugs Bunny Show,' a Saturday morning television program featuring Looney Tunes characters, and he also provided the voices for Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone's pet dinosaur, Dino, on 'The Flintstones,' the first animated situation comedy created for television. [ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA] http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9015589/Mel-Blanc [Content edited for length and link added Feb. 22, 2008 by Zbeckabee] Jun 22 00, 4:25 PM

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After MEL BLANC--His son took over. Since Mel Blanc died in 1989 at age 81, Noel has kept his father's legacy alive by doing the cartoon voices on television cartoons such as "Tiny Toon Adventures" through the animated wall art and various Warner Bros. toys that incorporate Mel Blanc's voice. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2000/Jan-28-Fri-2000/weekly/12817136.html [Link added Feb. 22, 2008 by Zbeckabee] Jul 22 00, 4:15 AM

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Following Mel Blanc, who voiced the character for almost fifty years, other voice actors have portrayed Bugs Bunny: Jeff Bergman (1990 - 1992) Greg Burson (1993 - 1995) Joe Alaskey (Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Daffy Duck for President, Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal) Billy West (1996 - present [alternate to Alaskey]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_bunny#Voice_Actors Feb 22 08, 6:55 PM