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Mel Blanc

American voice actor and radio personality (1908–1989)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1908-05-30
Died: 1989-07-10
Works: 6

Top works

Heathcliff - Fish Tales
The Looney tunes poster book
The golden age of Looney Tunes
Cricket in Times Square (Chuck Jones Cartoon Classic)
That's not all folks!

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Film & TV

Acting · San Francisco, California, USA

Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during the "Golden Age of American animation" (and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions) as the voice of such well-known characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy…

Known for

Hare's to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration — Self (archive footage)2024
Private SNAFU Golden Classics — Snafu (archive sound)2023
Tom and Jerry — (archive voices)2023
Tom & Jerry — Tom / Jerry (archive sounds) (uncredited)2021
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary! — Self - Bugs Bunny (voice) (archive footage)2020
Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection — Bugs Bunny2020
Porky Pig 101 — (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)2017
A Looney Tunes Thanksgiving — Bugs Bunny (voice)2014
Whistle Stop — Daffy Duck (uncredited)2014
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Three — (archive sound)2014

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1908-05-30
Active to: 1989-07-10

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 17,823
Total plays: 67,350

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Minimal criteria for defining multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells. The International Society for Cellular Therapy position statement
· 2006 · cited 14,447x
Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
· 2008 · cited 11,106x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,170x
Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer
· 2013 · cited 8,686x
Lenvatinib versus sorafenib in first-line treatment of patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a randomised phase 3 non-inferiority trial
· 2018 · cited 4,633x

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Key facts

Born: Melvin Jerome Blank , ( 1908-05-30 ) May 30, 1908, San Francisco , California , US
Died: July 10, 1989 (1989-07-10) (aged 81), Los Angeles , California, US
Resting place: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Other name: The Man of 1,000 Voices
Occupations: Voice actor radio personality
Years active: 1927–1989
Known for: Original voice of various Looney Tunes characters
Spouse: Estelle Rosenbaum ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1933 )
Children: Noel Blanc
Awards: Inkpot Award (1976)

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Key dates

Born: 30 May 1908
Died: 10 July 1989

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Q4563684
Family name: Blank
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: San Francisco
Place of death: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Child: Noel Blanc
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language

Article

Melvin Jerome Blanc (né Blank /blæŋk/; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over sixty years. Referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", he is regarded as the greatest and most influential voice actor of all time. Blanc is best known for providing voices for Looney Tunes cartoons by Warner Bros. during the golden age of American animation.

Blanc began his career during the Golden Age of Radio when he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those of Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy Canova and his own short-lived sitcom. He later expanded to animation, providing the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian, Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, Pepé Le Pew and numerous other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons. Blanc also voiced the Looney Tunes characters Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd after replacing their original performers, Joe Dougherty and Arthur Q. Bryan, respectively, although he occasionally voiced Elmer during Bryan's lifetime as well.