Mel Blanc Voices Looney Tunes Characters

Every day somebody’s born who has never seen The Flinstones.

— Merlin Mann

Or in this case, Looney Tunes! We began rectifying this last night by watching our first Bugs Bunny, etc. with the kids. (By the way, Mel Blanc does the voice of Barney Rubble on the Flintstones.)

Main Looney Tunes Characters

All Voiced By the Same Amazing Actor

Mel Blanc, the Man of 1,000 Voices, brought all of the main Looney Tunes characters (and dozens of minor ones) to life, by the end of his tenure with Warner Brothers:

• Bugs Bunny
• Daffy Duck
• Elmer Fudd
• Foghorn Leghorn / Barnyard Dog / Henery Hawk
• Marvin the Martian
• Pepé Le Pew / Penelope Pussycat
• Porky Pig
• Road Runner
• Speedy Gonzales / Slowpoke Rodriguez
• Sylvester
• Tasmanian Devil / She-Devil
• Tweety
• Wile E. Coyote
• Yosemite Sam

The list I found has a lot of minor characters, so I focused on listing the main dozen or so characters, above, just to have a list of these, in one place.

More on Mel

According to Wikipedia:

Blanc is regarded as the most prolific voice actor in entertainment history. He was the first voice actor to receive on-screen credit.

His tombstone reads “That's All Folks,” a phrase utter by Porky Pig at the end of Warner Bros. cartoons, from 1937 to 1946.

There was voice acting before Blanc, and voice acting after. And he continued into my own lifetime, in the 1980s.