Kids and adults could appreciate the antics of Bugs Bunny and friends. With the exception of Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants, today’s cartoons are utterly lacking in plot and feeling. I tell my children that cartoons today, which as a parent I was forced to watch, are weak in comparison to those done by Warner Brothers in the 1940s and 1950s. Like many others, I enjoyed those cartoons as boy and even get a kick out of them today when they’re on TV (which is seldom). They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery. Wagners Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. Why all this about aged cartoons? Mainly for nostalgia. Animation Short Comedy Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time its an opera. Blanc, who never earned more than $20,000 annually in his early years of work, demanded screen credit when pay increases were denied. I own a mansion and a yacht.”Īccording to the Internet Movie Database, Bryan never got screen credit for Fudd’s voice in more than 100 cartoons because it wasn’t required in his contract with Warner. George Gamble, on the long-running NBC radio comedy. He played the wise-cracking physician, Dr. Bryan used his own Brooklyn-life experiences to add flavor to Fudd’s animated voice and persona - chiefly, the incapacity to properly use the letter R.īorn in Brooklyn in May 1899, Bryan was also a voice on the popular radio show, Fibber McGee and Molly in the years prior to World War II and after. Cartoons Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series with Bugs frequently using the egg-headed Fudd as his hapless dupe. The next two decades would be glory years for the Warner Bros. The iconic Bugs character first appeared in a 1940 cartoon with Bryan performing as Fudd. Known for his “slow-talking and even slower-witted nature,” the Fudd character actually pre-dates Bugs Bunny. Voice animation master, Mel Blanc, took over upon Bryan’s death but the most memorable cartoons with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (he always being the luckless loser), were via Bryan. He has a syndrome, replacing 'Rs' and 'Ls' with 'Ws'. An enduring screen character, who among us can say they’ve never heard of him? Or attempted an impersonation?įrom the cartoon development of Fudd in the late 1930s until his death in November 1959, it was Bryan’s voice acting that brought the character to life in classic cartoon shorts. Elmer Fudd is a hunter starring in the Bugs Bunny series of Looney Tunes Cartoons. Bryan, who owned a summer home on Riverdale Avenue, was the definitive voice of Elmer J.
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