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10-02-2005, 09:41 PM
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Mel Blanc, Uncredited
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!" 
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#2
10-02-2005, 09:45 PM
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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.
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10-02-2005, 09:46 PM
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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.
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10-02-2005, 09:48 PM
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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.
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10-02-2005, 09:50 PM
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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.
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10-02-2005, 09:59 PM
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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?"??
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10-02-2005, 10:06 PM
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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
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10-02-2005, 11:20 PM
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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.
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10-03-2005, 09:13 AM
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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.
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#10
10-03-2005, 11:30 AM
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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.
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