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Image: Mel Blanc 4-15-05. JPG | The epitaph on voice actor Mel Blanc's tombstone

Mel Blanc took Shearer " under his wing " during his early days in show-business.

" Shearer said in an interview that one person who " took him under his wing " and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble.

The Captain was voiced by Billy Bletcher, and John Silver was voiced by Mel Blanc.

* 1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor ( d. 1989 )

Among the most noteworthy and versatile voice actors include Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Don Messick, Paul Frees, and June Foray.

** Mel Blanc, American voice actor ( d. 1989 )

Mel Blanc

* July 10 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor best known for voicing Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

In most cases, " The Man of a Thousand Voices ," Mel Blanc, contributed the animals ' gag lines, often lowering his voice one to two full octaves, far below the range he used to voice the character of Barney Rubble.

Daffy has been voiced by other actors besides Mel Blanc, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Dee Bradley Baker, and Joe Alaskey:

* In 1950, Mel Blanc recorded " Daffy Duck's Rhapsody ", a comic song written by Warren Foster, Billy May, and Michael Maltese.

The versatile Mel Blanc replaced Dougherty in 1937.

It was the final time Porky Pig was voiced by Mel Blanc.

In particular, several Warner Bros. cartoons used a caricature of Lorre's face with an impression by Mel Blanc, including Birth of a Notion, Hair-Raising Hare and Racketeer Rabbit.

Mel Blanc performed the voices.

Mel Blanc was apparently the first choice, according to Evanier.

* Mr. Spacely — Mel Blanc

Bergman completed voice work as George and Spacely for Jetsons: The Movie ( 1990 ) after George O ' Hanlon and Mel Blanc died during production.

Radio comedy ran the gamut from the small town humor of Lum and Abner, Herb Shriner and Minnie Pearl to the dialect characterizations of Mel Blanc and the caustic sarcasm of Henry Morgan.

Voice actor Mel Blanc was also an active CB operator, often using " Bugs " or " Daffy " as his handle and talking on the air in the Los Angeles area in one of his many voice characters.

The event, called " The Colonel: An Affectionate Remembrance of Jack L. Warner ", drew Hollywood notables such as entertainers Olivia de Havilland and Debbie Reynolds, and cartoon voice actor Mel Blanc.

In 1951, Mel Blanc ( with Billy May's orchestra ) had a hit single with " I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat ", a song performed in character by Tweety and featuring Sylvester.

Melle Mel is cited as an Old School MC who epitomizes the Old School flow – Kool Moe Dee says, “ from 1970 to 1978 we rhymed one way Melle Mel, in 1978, gave us the new cadence we would use from 1978 to 1986 ... he ’ s the first emcee to explode in a new rhyme cadence, and change the way every emcee rhymed forever.

Rodat wrote the script with Mel Gibson in mind for Benjamin Martin, and gave the Martin character six children to signal this preference to studio executives.

New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell gave the film a generally negative review, although he praised its casting and called Mel Gibson " an astonishing actor ", particularly for his " on-screen comfort and expansiveness ".

In his first appearance he was voiced by Mel Blanc who gave him a nasal-like voice, but later, Mel adopted an accent resembling Received Pronunciation for the character.

Talents such as Ernie Pintoff, Fred Crippen, Jimi Muricami, George Dunning, Mel Leven, Auri Batalia, Ozzie Evans, and many more, gave this short lived show a wide variety of new looks in animation.

He gave such examples as same-sex civil unions, the " crudity of the MTV crowd ," and the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ.

The Expos scored a run in the top of the tenth inning, but in the bottom, Martínez gave up a leadoff double to Bip Roberts, and was relieved by Mel Rojas, who retired the next three batters.

In the 1930s, he gave early tutelage to a budding CBS Radio announcer, Mel Allen, who, like Husing, would become a legendary sportscaster.

In October 2007, Mallick gave the 2nd annual Mel Hurtig Lecture on the Future of Canada, at the University of Alberta.

This gave him the opportunity to tour the UK, giving concerts, often with his long-time friend and collaborator, Mel Tormé, backed by the BBC Big Band.

A long-time Mel Tormé fan, Anderson gave the eulogy at the singer's funeral.

Playing herself as a love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern California, Canova was accompanied by a cast that included voicemaster Mel Blanc as Pedro ( using the accented voice he later gave the cartoons ' Speedy Gonzales ) and Sylvester ( using the voice that later became associated with the Looney Tunes character ), Ruth Perrott as Aunt Aggie, Ruby Dandridge as Geranium, Joseph Kearns as Benchley Botsford and Sharon Douglas as Brenda — with Gale Gordon, Sheldon Leonard, and Hans Conried also making periodic appearances.

At that time Mel Lastman appointed him as " Tree Advocate ", a title he gave up in 2006.

The song gave title for albums by Mel Carter ( 1965 ), Johnny Mathis ( 1977 ), and Gloria Estefan ( 1994 ), and was later referenced by U2's 1995 song " Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me ".

Cllr Mel Speding commented that " This success is also down to the support of the many people involved, including the citizens of Sunderland who gave up their time for the consultations and the local friends and community groups.

When Sri Lanka played their first Test match in February 1982, against England, Ratnayeke did not feature in the XI, though Wisden Cricketer's Almanack said after the series that leaving Ratnayeke out " gave their captain an unbalanced attack in which only De Mel was more than medium pace ".

* Mel Tormé provided Daffy's singing voice in Night of the Living Duck ( one of the new shorts in the compilation feature Daffy Duck's Quackbusters )

Writer-director Mel Brooks is heard briefly in the film, his voice dubbed over a dancer singing, " Don't be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party ", in the song Springtime For Hitler.

" ( Translation: " I'm a sweet little bird in a gilded cage ...") Aside from this speech challenge, Tweety's voice ( and a fair amount of his attitude ) is similar to that of Bugs Bunny, rendered as a child ( in The Old Grey Hare, Bugs ' infant voice was very similar to Tweety's normal voice ), which was achieved by speeding up Mel Blanc's voice recordings of Tweety Bird.

For much of the history of North American animation, voice actors had a predominantly low profile as performers, with Mel Blanc the major exception.

The practice of hiring singers to " fill in " for voice actors in a singing role has also seen change, as both Jeremy Irons and Mel Gibson have done singing in the respective films The Lion King and Pocahontas, rather than have a singer as substitute ( However, the former did most of his own singing, but due to straining his vocal cords, he didn't finish ; instead, Jim Cummings did his partial singing voice for the rest of the song ).

While most of the Warner Brothers characters were drawn well ( veteran Warners animator Virgil Ross was working there at the time ), and voiced by veteran voice actor Mel Blanc, the special is not liked by many fans of classic Warner Bros. animation because of its limited animation, as well as a weak storyline.

" In all 3 cartoons, Tedd Pierce ( normally a storyman / writer for the cartoons ) and Mel Blanc, respectively, provide voice impressions of the comedy duo.