The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors

398 Pages·2004·20.06 MB·English

by  Tim Lawson

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TNI MA*1C
B E H I ND
TNI VOICES
A WHO'S WHO
OP CARTOON
VOICE ACTORS
TIM LAWSON
AND ALISA PERSONS
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI / JACKSON
www.upress.state.ms.us
The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the
Association of American University Presses.
All photographs courtesy of Tim Lawson
unless otherwise noted
Copyright © 2004 by Tim Lawson and Alisa Persons
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lawson, Tim, 1961-
The magic behind the voices : a who's who of cartoon voice actors / Tim Lawson
and Alisa Persons,
p. cm.
Includes filmographies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-57806-695-6 (alk. paper) — ISBN 1-57806-696-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
i. Voice actors and actresses—United States—Biography—Dictionaries. 2. Animated
films—United States. 3. Animated television programs—United States. I. Persons,
Alisa, 1964-H. Tide.
PN2285.L38 2004
791.43O2'8'092273—dc22 2004006488
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
WITH THE DEEPEST RESPECT, TO DAWS BUTLER,
WHOSE KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY
HAVE TOUCHED SO MANY LIVES-WITHIN AND APART
FROM THE VOICE-OVER COMMUNITY
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CONTENTS
PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xüi
INTRODUCTION xvii
VOICE ACTORS 3
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 352
INDEX 357
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PREFACE
CARTOONS HAVE NO LIFE-SPAN. THEY UVE FOREVER.
-JOE BARBERA
I grew up as part of the Hanna-Barbera generation. Although I was partial to
The JetsonSy Wally Gator, Lippy the Lion, Jonny Quest, and The New Scooby-
Doo movies (How can you not be enthralled by the prospect of Scooby and
the gang solving a mystery with Mama Cass?), my all-time favorite cartoon
was The Flintstones. I must have seen every episode at least thirty times, never
tiring of the Hatrocks, Mr. Slate, the Way Outs, or Joe Rockhead. Even
though most fans despised the episodes with the Great Gazoo, who showed
up in season six, I loved them. You can imagine my excitement when, in 1972,
my parents took me to Custer, South Dakota, to visit Flintstone Village, a
tourist attraction (or "trap" as my father called it) which was a replica of the
town of Bedrock. There were stone houses, a stone bank, and a stone theater,
which showed The Flintstones exclusively. The best part of it all was the fact
that they had Fred's and Barney's cars, which were street legal (on any given
day, you could see them motoring around Custer). Little did I know at the
time that my fascination with the inhabitants of Bedrock would lead to the
book you now hold in your hands.
In 1984,1 happened to catch an episode of The Flintstones and, having seen
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it many times before, I found myself not so much watching the show as listen-
ing to it. I became engrossed in the performance of Alan Reed and thought, "I
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