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Classic cartoon voices

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Yes, I realize that most of the classic voices have either passed or are in their sunset years. Here is a list of my all-time favorites:

Mel Blanc
Daws Butler
Don Messick
John Stephenson (AFAIK, still with us at 83, although retired since "Duck Dodgers")
June Foray (still with us)
Janet ("Judy Jetson") Waldo (still with us, but is 89)
Frank Welker (still active; hopefully he reads this board)
Casey Kasem
Gary Owens ("Space Ghost" is out on DVD next month, BTW)
Henry Corden (for Paw Rugg and various "JQ" and "Super Adventure" villains)
Jean Vander Pyl
Alan Reed

Among the current (besides Welker):

Tom Kenny
Tara Strong
Nancy Cartwright (Daws Butler protegee)
E.G. Daily
Cree Summer
Barry Gordon
Charlie Adler
Jess Harnell

Any comments?
 
Let's not forget Howard Morris, voice of Atom Ant and Jughead of the Archie series...or his most memorable in-front-of-the-camera role, Ernest T. Bass from the Andy Griffith Show.

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
Steve N. said:
Among the current (besides Welker):

Nancy Cartwright (Daws Butler protegee)

Any comments?
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...well, if ya gotta mention Cartwright, I gotta mention Yeardley Smith ;-) ...

...and Arnold Stang ("Top Cat") is still with us, being one of the last living links to old-time radio as well (was in the support crew of both Henry Morgan's ABC and Milton Berle's NBC radio shows before joining Berle on NBC-TV and Frank Sinatra in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM)...
 
Ultimajock said:
Steve N. said:
Among the current (besides Welker):

Nancy Cartwright (Daws Butler protegee)

Any comments?
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...well, if ya gotta mention Cartwright, I gotta mention Yeardley Smith ;-) ...

...and Arnold Stang ("Top Cat") is still with us, being one of the last living links to old-time radio as well (was in the support crew of both Henry Morgan's ABC and Milton Berle's NBC radio shows before joining Berle on NBC-TV and Frank Sinatra in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM)...
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....not to mention being Ahh-nold's first co-star back in 1970 in "Hercules In New York"

one voice I forgot (besides Howard Morris): Paul Frees
 
One of the best current voice artists not mentioned is Billy West ("Ren & Stimpy"), who's gone from being one of Howard Stern's crew to being the voice of the Honey Nut Cheerios bee.

Also, I've always heard that Danny Hutton, the lead singer of Three Dog Night, did cartoon voice work before switching to music. Anyone know what cartoons he may have worked on?
 
"I realize that most of the classic voices have either passed or are in their sunset years...Gary Owens ("Space Ghost" is out on DVD next month, BTW)"

Watch what you say about "sunset years" and Gary Owens. He still has that basso-profundo voice and jet black hair ;D Gary was also a staff writer and the voice of Roger Ramjet - a 60s cartoon show for "kids" that contained a lot of inside adult humor, not unlike Rocky and Bullwinkle

"Let's not forget Howard Morris, voice of Atom Ant and Jughead of the Archie series...or his most memorable in-front-of-the-camera role, Ernest T. Bass from the Andy Griffith Show."

This must include an honorable mention of Howie Morris's role as Professor Littleoldman in Mel Brooks vastly under-rated Hitchcock spoof "High Anxiety" circa 1977 or so.
 
Henry Corden has left us.

Ted Knight did the narration on Aquaman,
voiced by one of the best in the business:
Marvin Miller, who also worked with Paul
Frees on "The Millionaire."

Also, a couple more veterans:

Bud Collyer (Superman on the '60s
animated series--he also did the
voice on radio in the '40s)

Allan Melvin, the voice of Magilla
Gorilla and Punkin Puss. (He was also Sgt.
Hacker on "Gomer Pyle" and Cpl. Henshaw on
"Sgt. Bilko" with Phil Silvers.) He's stll with us,
although he's about 85 now.
 
"Allan Melvin, the voice of Magilla Gorilla and Punkin Puss. (He was also Sgt.
Hacker on "Gomer Pyle" and Cpl. Henshaw on "Sgt. Bilko" with Phil Silvers.) He's stll with us,
although he's about 85 now."

Thanks for mentioning Allan Melvin, bpatrick. I believe he also had a recurring role as one of Archie Bunker's buddies. He was one of those talented TV veterans who never had great fame or star recognition, but always worked steadily. He was also good at playing tough guys in dramatic roles.
 
Allan Melvin did play Archie's friend Barney Hefner.
Also, watch for him in occasional episodes of "The
Andy Griffith Show," where he's usually--but not
always--the bad guy. (I saw one the other day
where he was the grocer's helper who threatened
to beat up Barney if he caught him out of uniform.
I won't give away the ending.)
 
Lkeller said:
"Allan Melvin, the voice of Magilla Gorilla and Punkin Puss. (He was also Sgt.
Hacker on "Gomer Pyle" and Cpl. Henshaw on "Sgt. Bilko" with Phil Silvers.) He's stll with us,
although he's about 85 now."

Thanks for mentioning Allan Melvin, bpatrick. I believe he also had a recurring role as one of Archie Bunker's buddies. He was one of those talented TV veterans who never had great fame or star recognition, but always worked steadily. He was also good at playing tough guys in dramatic roles.
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Don't forget he was also Alice Nelson's love interest, Sam the butcher, on The Brady Bunch.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
Lkeller said:
"Allan Melvin, the voice of Magilla Gorilla and Punkin Puss. (He was also Sgt.
Hacker on "Gomer Pyle" and Cpl. Henshaw on "Sgt. Bilko" with Phil Silvers.) He's stll with us,
although he's about 85 now."

Thanks for mentioning Allan Melvin, bpatrick. I believe he also had a recurring role as one of Archie Bunker's buddies. He was one of those talented TV veterans who never had great fame or star recognition, but always worked steadily. He was also good at playing tough guys in dramatic roles.
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Don't forget he was also Alice Nelson's love interest, Sam the butcher, on The Brady Bunch.
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He was also the voice leading viewers into the last set of commercials of The Brady Bunch during its first season before the Brady kids took over ("The Brady Bunch will be right back").
 
A very active cartoon voice-over artist is a man who studied under both Paul Frees and Hans Conreid (there's a classic voice-over person; the original Captain Hook); Cory Burton. Burton (no reltion to director Tim) has done most of his work for Disney Animation, and is currently the "Voice of Disneyland" (Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls.......) And much like Paul Frees, Burton's different voices can in heard in many attractions both classic and new, at just about every Disney theme park worldwide.
 
Hans Conreid worked for Jay Ward; wasn't
he the voice of Snidely Whiplash?

Nobody's mentioned that Henry Corden took
over the voice of Fred Flintstone when Alan
Reed passed away; likewise, Frank Welker
became the voice of Barney Rubble after Mel
Blanc's passing.

Another notable female voice specialist is
Lucille Bliss, the voice of Crusader Rabbit in
the '40s and Smurfette in the '80s.
 
Also, Jackson Beck, the voice of Bluto-Brutus in Popeye, Mae Questel, and Popeye's voice himself, Jack Mercer, plus, Allen Swift.
 
bpatrick said:
Allan Melvin did play Archie's friend Barney Hefner.
Also, watch for him in occasional episodes of "The
Andy Griffith Show," where he's usually--but not
always--the bad guy. (I saw one the other day
where he was the grocer's helper who threatened
to beat up Barney if he caught him out of uniform.
I won't give away the ending.)
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Allan was also in the episode with Ellen Corby (Grandma Walton) where Barney bought the car from her, only to find out that the car turned out to be a mess and the old lady (Ellen) and her son (Allan) and their gang were crooks.
 
Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer Fudd in all of the Looney Tunes cartoons from 1938 to 1959 (when he passed away). The voice of Elmer Fudd after that went to several other people including Hal Smith (Otis on Andy Griffith Show), Daws Butler, and Mel Blanc very briefly, however Mel didn't want to voice Elmer because he couldn't do as good a job as Arthur Q. Bryan did.

Daws Butler also voiced Barney Rubble on The Flintstones for a few episodes in 1961 after Mel Blanc's near fatal car accident.

Bea Benaderet voiced Granny for a while from 1950 to 1953 in Tweety and Sylvester cartoons. Before this and after this, June Foray portrayed her voice, between 1950 and 1953 she had signed on with Disney doing voices for them before going back to Warner Brothers.
 
[i]"Hans Conreid worked for Jay Ward; wasn't he the voice of Snidely Whiplash?"[/i]

Yes - and the narrator for Fractured Fairy Tales. Jay Ward used interesting people as Narrators, including veteran comic actor Charlie Ruggles (voice of Aesop), and of course, William Conrad for Rocky and Bullwinkle (earlier radio's Matt Dillon, and later TV's Cannon and "Fat Man," as in "Jake and the.."
My father was an animator at Jay Ward, and liked to hang out during recording sessions. Bill Conrad was his favorite - I guess the guy was a major cut-up and practical joker, quite the anithesis of the scowling and serious characters he tended to play. He was, however, a major gourmand in real life - hence his considerable girth.

"Bea Benaderet voiced Granny for a while from 1950 to 1953 in Tweety and Sylvester cartoons"

And was, of course, the original Betty Rubble.
 
Another one I forgot: Scott Menville (80s Jonny Quest, Freddy Flintstone and Robin from the recent Teen Titans)

Also: the recently departed Lennie Weinrib (the first Freddy Flintstone, H.R. Pufnstuf, Roland and Ratfink, and others I can't think of now)
 
Lets not forget Paul Winchell, dozens of voices for many years.

Pink Panther, Clue Club, Oddball Couple, Hong Kong Phooey, Banana Splits, Winnie the Pooh.
 
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