Mel Blanc

Born: May 30, 1908, San Francisco, California
Died: July 10, 1989, Los Angeles, California

For 50 years, Mel Blanc was the voice of many popular cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig (2), Foghorn Leghorn, The Tasmanian Devil, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin The Martian (2), Roadrunner (4) the signature "Meep! Meep!"), Barney Rubble (4), and Woody Woodpecker (2).

Joe Alaskey took over many of the voice roles until his own death in 2016.

Mel Blanc had a very busy career in radio during the late 1930s-1940s voicing numerous characters (such as his 'Private Sad Sack') on many radio shows. Blanc was also on 'The Jack Benny Program' (as Prof. LeBlanc, Maxwell and Carmicheal the Polar bear), 'Burns and Allen' (as the 'Happy Postman'), 'The Judy Canova Show' (as 'Pedro' the Mexican handyman), 'The Joe Penner Show' ('Goo-Goo' the duck), and many more.