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Mel Blanc

1908 - 1989

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Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, 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. Blanc became known worldwide for his work in the Golden Age of American Animation as the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mel Blanc is the 2,141st most popular actor (down from 2,006th in 2019), the 3,786th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,283rd in 2019) and the 1,049th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Mel Blanc ranks 2,141 out of 13,578. Before him are Joanna Shimkus, Pedro Alonso, Gina Gershon, Richard Roundtree, William Baldwin, and Mayumi Tanaka. After him are Calista Flockhart, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ottavia Piccolo, Peter Krause, James Finlayson, and Dermot Mulroney.

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Among people born in 1908, Mel Blanc ranks 141. Before him are Vazgen I, Françoise Dolto, Juan López Fontana, Jacques Massu, Johanna Budwig, and Petro Shelest. After him are Luis Regueiro, Karel Ančerl, Giacomo Manzù, Ahmad Shukeiri, Lupe Vélez, and Bruno Lüdke. Among people deceased in 1989, Mel Blanc ranks 112. Before him are Sourou-Migan Apithy, André Cayatte, Arnaldo Ochoa, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Edward Ochab, and Paul Shenar. After him are Betti Alver, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Robert B. Anderson, Elisaveta Bykova, Richie Ginther, and Gerhard Schröder.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mel Blanc ranks 3,786 out of 20,380. Before him are Alvin E. Roth (1951), Jim Thompson (1906), Gina Gershon (1962), Richard Roundtree (1942), William Baldwin (1963), and Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961). After him are Carmine Coppola (1910), Calista Flockhart (1964), Eric Singer (1958), Marie Laveau (1801), Jim Garrison (1921), and William Windom (1827).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Mel Blanc ranks 1,049. Before him are Richard Bull (1924), Gil Birmingham (1953), Jack Klugman (1922), Gina Gershon (1962), Richard Roundtree (1942), and William Baldwin (1963). After him are Calista Flockhart (1964), Peter Krause (1965), Dermot Mulroney (1963), Richard Beymer (1938), Robert Wisdom (1953), and Chloë Grace Moretz (1997).

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