Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bergman continued voicing various Hanna-Barbera characters, namely Fred Flintstone, in newer specials such as The Flintstones: On the Rocks following Henry Corden's retirement from the role in 2000, only understudying the voices of the Looney Tunes in times when Alaskey and West were not available. hired other voice actors such as Joe Alaskey (who was the first person to replace Blanc as the voice of Yosemite Sam in Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988), Greg Burson, Bob Bergen, Billy West and Blanc's son Noel Blanc. At the time, he was living in Pittsburgh so Warner Bros.
By the mid-1990s, Bergman decided to not continue voicing the Looney Tunes, due to reluctance about relocating to Los Angeles. He also voiced George Jetson in the theme park attraction The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.
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Spacely in Jetsons: The Movie (1990) when their previous voice actors George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc both died during production he had been working at his local radio station in Pennsylvania when he received the call to travel to California and complete the dialogue. Outside of the Looney Tunes, Bergman also voiced George Jetson and Mr.
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He voiced Bugs, Daffy, Elmer and Yosemite Sam in the 1991 short (Blooper) Bunny, as well as several characters (including Sylvester the Cat and Foghorn Leghorn) in animated TV specials and newer animated series such as Tiny Toon Adventures and The Plucky Duck Show. Bergman later voiced Bugs and Daffy again as well as Elmer Fudd in the 1991 theatrical short Box-Office Bunny, Bugs's first in over 25 years. That same year, he also lent his voice to Bugs, Daffy and Porky in the animated sequences of Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). He voiced Bugs, as well as Daffy Duck, during the 1990 TV specials Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue and The Earth Day Special (also voicing Tweety Bird and Porky Pig in the latter). īergman's first performance as Bugs Bunny was during the 62nd Academy Awards as Bugs presented the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. president Edward Bleier was unable to tell the difference between the voices, and Bergman, at the age of 29, became the first performer to provide the voice of Bugs Bunny after Mel Blanc died on J– Bergman's 29th birthday. He took the tape to the production company and used a switch to toggle back and forth between his work and the original Mel Blanc recording. directors, he recorded a tape of himself as several of Blanc's characters, including Bugs Bunny. After being rebuffed several times by Warner Bros. began in 1986, recording voices for The Bugs Bunny Show. Career īergman voiced the Pillsbury Doughboy from 1986 to 2013 following Paul Frees' death in 1986. Bergman credits Blanc with helping him graduate two years later.
Bergman later tracked Blanc down and met him at his Oakland hotel room in 1981, where Bergman imitated Blanc's characters for him, earning himself a 45-minute session. The story was picked up on similar TV news magazines shows and helped land him his representation with William Morris Agency following his graduation from Pitt in 1983.ĭuring his time at university, Bergman attended an on-campus lecture by Mel Blanc, who was best known for voicing the Looney Tunes such as Bugs Bunny. While there, he made his first demo reel and was profiled in a story on KDKA-TV's Evening Magazine. He studied theater and communications at the University of Pittsburgh where he first did voice work after becoming involved with a student-run radio station and interning at the KQV and WDVE radio stations. At the age of 15, Bergman began doing impressions of various Looney Tunes characters. Throughout his early life, he impersonated several celebrities and cartoon characters, his first impression being comic influence Ed Sullivan at the age of 6. Animation productions.īergman was born on Jto a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bergman shared the roles of Blanc's characters with Greg Burson and Joe Alaskey before their respective deaths in 20, as well as Bob Bergen, Billy West, Jim Cummings, Maurice LaMarche, Fred Tatasciore, and Eric Bauza for various Warner Bros. cartoon characters following Blanc's death in 1989. Jeffrey Bergman (born July 10, 1960) is an American voice actor and impressionist who has provided the modern-day voices of various classic cartoon characters, most notably with Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera.īergman was the first to replace Mel Blanc as the voice of Bugs Bunny and several other Warner Bros.
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