Noel Blanc

• Name — Noel Blanc • Birth Name — Noel Barton Blanc • Born — 19 October 1938 • Birthplace — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Occupation — * Voice actor • commercial producer • Years Active — * 1960–2005 (voice actor) • 1951–present (commercial producer) • Father — Mel Blanc

Blanc was born on October 19, 1938, in Los Angeles, California. He is the only child of voice actor Mel Blanc. Throughout Noel's childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, he worked with his father on the Looney Tunes cartoons, with Mel training him in the field of voice characterization. In 1961, Noel performed some of Mel's voices, uncredited, when Mel was injured in a car crash. On January 29, 1962, they formed Blanc Communications Corporation, a media company which remains in operation. Together, they produced over 5,000 public service announcements and commercials, appearing with Kirk Douglas, Lucille Ball, Vincent Price, Phyllis Diller, Liberace, and The Who. Kirk Douglas' son, Joel, served as one of the executives at Blanc Communications Corporation and helped to develop and produce commercials until the late 1980s. Following Mel Blanc's death in 1989, Noel voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd (a character that was originally Arthur Q. Bryan's role that Mel occasionally performed during Bryan's lifetime and inherited after Bryan's death), the Tasmanian Devil, Porky Pig, Tweety and other characters in Tiny Toon Adventures and a series of You Rang? answering machine messages; he was one of several successors to his father in the immediate aftermath of Mel's death, with others including Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, Greg Burson, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West and most recently Eric Bauza. Warner Bros. had been splitting up the various voice-acting roles to prevent any one of them from being a singular successor. He later contributed voice work to Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.

Blanc has been married three times; he first married Larraine Zax in 1967; they divorced in 1972. Blanc then married actress Martha Smith in 1977; the marriage lasted for nine years, until they divorced in 1986. Blanc married his third wife, Katherine Hushaw, at the Warner Bros. Studios on June 3, 1998.

In February 1991, Blanc was injured in his personal helicopter when the aircraft collided with a small plane above Santa Paula Airport. Two other people were also injured, including Kirk Douglas, and two people in the plane were killed. Blanc suffered multiple fractures to his right leg, five broken ribs, a bruised lung, and a bruised kidney. He was taken to the intensive care unit at Santa Paula Hospital.

• Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball – Bugs Bunny (vocal effects), Daffy Duck (saying "Happy Birthday, Bugs!"), Yosemite Sam, Sylvester ("oofs" and "ows"), Speedy Gonzales, Barnyard Dawg, Chickens

• This Is Your Life – Himself • Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toontown – Himself • 50 Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 1 / 2 Minutes – Porky Pig • Happy Birthday, Bugs!: 50 Looney Years – Himself, Porky Pig • What's Up Doc? A Salut/refe to Bugs Bunny – Himself • Entertaining the Troops – Himself • Behind the Tunes – Himself • 100 Greatest Cartoons – Himself • The Chuck Woolery Show – Himself • Vicki! – Himself • Friz on Film – Himself • Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices – Himself • King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution – Himself • I Know That Voice – Himself

• Tomorrowland – Radio Personalities • Carousel of Progress – Cuckoo Clock, Radio Personalities • The Looney Tunes Revue – Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Pepé Le Pew, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk, Tasmanian Devil • Rabbit-cadabbra – Bugs Bunny (one line) • Looney Tunes River Ride – Marc Antony