Mel Blanc, Uncredited

[Stanislav]

It's somewhat ironic that Mel Blanc, the first (and for a long time, the only) voice actor to receive a screen credit apparently did a lot of incidental voices in TV shows for which he never received credit. (For example, he was the voice of the Raven in The Munsters' cuckoo clock.)

Over the years, I've seen some references to these "vocal cameos," but time and the addling effects of middle-age have deleted a lot of my old brain files. Can anyone think of some more of these uncredited Blanc bits, either confirmed by others or just one of those incidental voices you heard in a show and said to yourself, "That's gotta be Mel!"

[Jaime_Weinman]

I can even think of a few WB cartoons where he doesn't get credit (after he started getting regular credit, I mean). He's uncredited in "Goo Goo Goliath" (the stork) and "No Barking" (Tweety). I've also thought that was him doing the "m-m-m-m!" of Mark Anthony in "Feed the Kitty," though I might be wrong about that.

[cbrubaker]

In a Pink Panther cartoon "Tickled Pink", you can hear someone yelling "Why don't you look where you-". That was Blanc's voice, and it was ripped off from one of the WB cartoons.

[Bugs Bunny]

Also in the Pink Panther short " Pink Punch" Mel Blanc does the asterix chortle which is simmalar to Barney and a bit of Foghorn Leghorn's.

[Jaime_Weinman]

Also, the theatrical trailer for the best Inspector Clouseau movie, A Shot in the Dark, was produced by DePatie-Freleng, with Blanc doing all the voices of various talking bullets, including Dum-Dum, a French-accented bullet who narrates the trailer.

[absolutpaul]

In Abbott and Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk (1952), Blanc voices the talking animals in the forest, and later a parrot.

In Snow White and The Three Stooges (1961), Blanc voices "Quinto", a jester puppet- he even sings a song.

Plus, after Mel quit voicing Woody Woodpecker, his "Guess who?" clip was used on every subsequent WW cartoon on the titles, even though his voice was done by other people. Could it have been so hard to get Grace Stafford to say, "Guess who?"??

[gilligan fanati]

he provides the voices of a Parrot and a Frog on two episodes during the first season of Gilligan's Island (a WB series) but is uncredited both times. I don't think he was ever credited on The Munsters as the raven either

[Javeman]

I may be wrong about this but, speaking solely of WB cartoons 1930-1969, Mel Blanc was credited on-screen more times than anybody else.

[Jeff]

Did he do any work in "Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat" (Walter Lantz)? It sounds to me like Blanc, but I don't think he's credited and I'm sure later in life he wouldn't want to be.

[speedy fast]

I am a little confused over how Mel Blanc was able to get credited as a voice actor. Did his contract state that only he could get credited? If so, then the rules must have changed later on, as Stan Freberg was allowed to get credited in Three Little Bops, the entire cast of The jack Benny Show were credited in The Mouse That Jack Built, two other voice actors were credited in Honeys Money, and Larry Hagman got credited for the Cool Cat and Merlin The Magic Mouse cartoons.

[Jeff]

I am a little confused over how Mel Blanc was able to get credited as a voice actor. Did his contract state that only he could get credited? If so, then the rules must have changed later on, as Stan Freberg was allowed to get credited in Three Little Bops,

I believe his contract stipulated this. If you listen to the audio commentary on "Three Little Bops" in LTGCv2, Stan talks about this and since he did all the voices in Three Little Bops, Freleng decided to go against Mel's contract on that one.


the entire cast of The jack Benny Show were credited in The Mouse That Jack Built

I'm sure WB wanted to brag about this one...

[rodney]

and Larry Hagman got credited for the Cool Cat and Merlin The Magic Mouse cartoons.

You must mean Larry Storch. Larry Hagman was on DALLAS.

[speedy fast]

I believe his contract stipulated this. If you listen to the audio commentary on "Three Little Bops" in LTGCv2, Stan talks about this and since he did all the voices in Three Little Bops, Freleng decided to go against Mel's contract on that one.

I wonder if Friz Freling got in trouble for that. I have listened to the Three Little Bops commentary a few times.

It is a bit weird how Mel Blanc was the only voice actor credited in cartoons where he did such minor voice acting. I believe he was credited in One Froggy Evening even though somebody else did the frogs singing voice. I guess Mel Blanc only did the frogs croaking, since Michagan J. Frog was the only character who spoke in that one. And he was credited in Ants pasted even though the ants don't talk much and Elmer Fudds voice is heard the most.

[Stanislav]

I'm enjoying reading the thread, but I was more looking for some of Mel's uncredited bits in live action TV shows -- situations where he provided an off-screen voice (maybe a radio announcer, PA system, etc.), or voiced an animal or other non-human object in a fantasy situation, etc. I've probably heard of at least a dozen or more of these before, either via hearing it first-hand and thinking it sounded like Mel, or reading a reference to it elsewhere. I just don't remember the details, and thought it would be fun for others to fill in the blanks of my mind (which is mostly blank these days).

[Leviathan]

It is a bit weird how Mel Blanc was the only voice actor credited in cartoons where he did such minor voice acting. I believe he was credited in One Froggy Evening even though somebody else did the frogs singing voice. .

Actually Mel Mlanc didn't get credit for One Froggy Evening (his name isn't on the Credit card for that cartoons)

[Frank]

I am a little confused over how Mel Blanc was able to get credited as a voice actor. Did his contract state that only he could get credited? If so, then the rules must have changed later on, as Stan Freberg was allowed to get credited in Three Little Bops, the entire cast of The jack Benny Show were credited in The Mouse That Jack Built, two other voice actors were credited in Honeys Money, and Larry Hagman got credited for the Cool Cat and Merlin The Magic Mouse cartoons.

Wasn't Larry Storch credited in the Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse cartoons?

[rodney]

One can't forget the literally thousands of uncredited appearances Blanc made in radio programs.

[Barb Herholzer]

One can't forget the literally thousands of uncredited appearances Blanc made in radio programs.
Yes, he was all over the radio dial, most famously on THE JACK BENNY SHOW (where he often WAS credited), and as the star of his OWN short-lived CBS program, THE MEL BLANC SHOW, where he (obviously) was credited.

[Mike]

I'm enjoying reading the thread, but I was more looking for some of Mel's uncredited bits in live action TV shows -- situations where he provided an off-screen voice (maybe a radio announcer, PA system, etc.), or voiced an animal or other non-human object in a fantasy situation, etc. I've probably heard of at least a dozen or more of these before, either via hearing it first-hand and thinking it sounded like Mel, or reading a reference to it elsewhere. I just don't remember the details, and thought it would be fun for others to fill in the blanks of my mind (which is mostly blank these days).

Well, Mel did provide many animal voices on "The Lucy Show" in the '60s, although he was never credited. And, along those same lines, June Foray once did a voice on an episode of "Get Smart," and was also not credited.

Mike

[Bobby Bickert]

Did June get a credit for voicing "Mama Bear" in Fox's The Two Little Bears? I don't remember seeing her name in the credits.

[cbrubaker]

I am a little confused over how Mel Blanc was able to get credited as a voice actor. Did his contract state that only he could get credited? If so, then the rules must have changed later on, as Stan Freberg was allowed to get credited in Three Little Bops, the entire cast of The jack Benny Show were credited in The Mouse That Jack Built, two other voice actors were credited in Honeys Money, and Larry Hagman got credited for the Cool Cat and Merlin The Magic Mouse cartoons.
I should point out that they started to give other voice actors credits in 1960s.

[ohmahaaha]

Mel was cast as the "voice" if Gideon the Cat in Disney's "Pinocchio," but for whatever reason it was decided that Gideon would not have any dialog somewhere along the line. However, there is one scene where Gideon hiccups with an unmistakable Mel Blanc hiccup.

[Vdubdavid]

Actually, I read in Mel Blanc's biography that he did Gideon's dialogue as a drunk, and Walt was concerned about having a lush in one of his films.