20 years without Mel, or Blanced out..

[Steve Carras]

Mel died twenty years ago today, actually 7/.10, in 1989..at 81.RIP..


SC
[likes, btw, that the Speechless 1989 RIP pic shows Daffy mourning with the others, as the entire WB caroton hcaracters could be brought together, hough of course Elmer Fudd and Granny weren't voiced by him..Barney Rubble and Mr.Spacely are missing, despite the Blanc and WB association, but then in 1989 Warners hadn't yet purchased the HB holdings and it would be endless to show the number of characters he did, like with Daws Butler etc.]

[Jayd]

Mel died twenty years ago today, actually 7/.10, in 1989..at 81.RIP..


SC
[likes, btw, that the Speechless 1989 RIP pic shows Daffy mourning with the others, as the entire WB caroton hcaracters could be brought together, hough of course Elmer Fudd and Granny weren't voiced by him..Barney Rubble and Mr.Spacely are missing, despite the Blanc and WB association, but then in 1989 Warners hadn't yet purchased the HB holdings and it would be endless to show the number of characters he did, like with Daws Butler etc.]

Not to mention Secret Squirrel, Droopalong and Hardy, also voiced by Mel. And I'm positive he did the voice of Elmer. Funny how Mel and Daws died about a year of eachother, the two greatest voice over artists ever.

[SNES Chalmers]

And I'm positive he did the voice of Elmer.

No, he wasn't. Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer, although in two of the later cartoons Mel did voice him, in The Scarlet Pumpernickel for one line, and then in Pre-Hysterical Hare, during the musicians union strike in 1958.

[Steve Carras]

No, he wasn't. Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer, although in two of the later cartoons Mel did voice him, in The Scarlet Pumpernickel for one line, and then in Pre-Hysterical Hare, during the musicians union strike in 1958.


Blanc as Fudd:
Parts of
"The Stupid Cupid" [1944]
"The Big Snooze" [1946]
"The Rabbit of Seville" [1950]
"What's Opera, Doc?" [1957]

and all of
"The Scarlet Pumpernickel" [1950] as you say.

Elmer Fudd in "Pre-Hysterical Hare" [1958] was a radio/Ed Sullivan TV/Vegas/DePatie-Freleng regular named DAVE BARRY [not the later humorist himself very funny.]

[SNES Chalmers]

Blanc as Fudd:
Parts of
"The Stupid Cupid" [1944]
"The Big Snooze" [1946]
"The Rabbit of Seville" [1950]
"What's Opera, Doc?" [1957]



Yeah, you're right, but in each of these cases Bryan was the main voice for most of the cartoon, and Mel just voiced him for a line or even a single word. For instance, in What's Opera, Doc? the single word "SMOG!" was the only word dubbed by Blanc, where in the rest of the cartoon Fudd was voiced by Bryan.

[EJLD4Ever]

Yeah, you're right, but in each of these cases Bryan was the main voice for most of the cartoon, and Mel just voiced him for a line or even a single word. For instance, in What's Opera, Doc? the single word "SMOG!" was the only word dubbed by Blanc, where in the rest of the cartoon Fudd was voiced by Bryan.

You can hear Bryan's rendition of the line on the vocal-only track to What's Opera, Doc? on LTGC 2, however. Bryan's rendition was not as strong as Mel's.

[Jayd]

I know he had a son named Noel Blanc. Get it? It's french for White Christmas. I saw a story on him on the news in the 1980s that he could do good imitations of his dad's voices.

Anyway, loved Mel's appearances on the Jack Benny show, reruns that is.:flapjack:

[dth1971]

When the 1990's came many other voice actors were voicing the Looney Tunes characters originally done bythe late Mel Blanc - Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Maurice LaMarche, Jim Cummings, Bob Bergen, and Joe Alaskey, among others.