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THE MAO 1C BEHIHD INE VOICES This page intentionally left blank 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 121110 09 08 07 06 05 04 4321 ® 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 This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xüi INTRODUCTION xvii VOICE ACTORS 3 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 352 INDEX 357 This page intentionally left blank 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 y 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 ix
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