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Revision as of 18:11, 9 November 2022
Don Messick | |
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Years active at Hanna-Barbera | 1957-1996 |
Characters played | Scooby-Doo Boo Boo Bear Ranger Smith Papa Smurf Astro Muttley Spot Benton Quest Ruff Bandit Sancho Panda Dapple |
Donald Earle Messick was an American voice actor. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera animation production company where he originated the voices of many familiar characters, including Scooby-Doo, Boo Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, Papa Smurf, Astro, Muttley, Spot, Benton Quest, Ruff, and Bandit.
Messick died from a second stroke on October 24, 1997, at the age of 71.
Roles
20th century
- The Ruff and Reddy Show (1957-1960)
- The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962)
- Boo Boo Bear
- Ranger Smith
- Pixie
- Loopy De Loop
- The Flintstones (1960-1966)
- The Yogi Bear Show (1961-1962)
- Boo Boo Bear
- Ranger Smith
- Major Minor
- Top Cat (1961-1962)
- The Jetsons (1962-1963)
- Astro
- The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series (1962-1963)
- The Magilla Gorilla Show (1964-1966)
- The Peter Potamus Show (1964–1966)
- Jonny Quest (1964–1965)
- Doctor Benton Quest
- Bandit
- The Secret Squirrel Show (1965)
- The Atom Ant Show (1965–1967)
- Alice in Wonderland (1965)
- The Laurel and Hardy Cartoon Show (1966-1967)
- Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles (1966-1968)
- Space Ghost & Dino Boy (1966-1968)
- The Space Kidettes (1966-1967)
- Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (1967)
- The Herculoids (1967)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)
- Cat
- Mice
- Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor (1967)
- Fantastic Four (1967-1968)
- Abbott & Costello (1967)
- Shazzan (1967)
- Young Samson (1967-1968)
- The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968)
- The Adventures of Gulliver (1968-1969)
- Wacky Races (1968-1969)
- The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1969)
- The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969-1970)
- Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969-1970)
- Muttley
- Klunk
- Zilly
- Yankee Doodle Pidgeon
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969-1970)
- Cattanooga Cats (1969)
- Where's Huddles? (1970)
- Josie and the Pussycats (1970-1971)
- The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971)
- Harlem Globetrotters (1971)
- Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! (1971)
- The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972)
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
- The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972)
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972-1973)
- Scooby-Doo
- Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space (1972)
- Inch High, Private Eye (1973)
- The Addams Family (1973)
- Jeannie (1973)
- Yogi's Gang (1973)
- Boo Boo Bear
- Atom Ant
- Squiddly Diddly
- Touché Turtle
- Ranger Smith
- Hong Kong Phooey (1974)
- Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (1974–1975)
- Scrambles
- Officer Fishtail
- The Fire Chief
- Ranger
- The Tom & Jerry Show (1975)
- The Mumbly Cartoon Show (1976)
- Jabberjaw (1976)
- Dynomutt, Dog Wonder (1976-1977)
- Scooby-Doo
- The Scooby-Doo Show (1976-1978)
- Scooby-Doo
- CB Bears (1977)
- Clyde
- Seeker ("Valley of No Return", 1977)
- Elmo ("The Carnival Caper", 1977)
- Mr. Gridley ("The Carnival Caper", 1977)
- Newsman ("Snowbound Safari", 1977)
- Big foot/bank robber ("Snowbound Safari", 1977)
- The Skatebirds (1977)
- A Flintstone Christmas (1977)
- Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977-1978)
- Laff-A-Lympics (1977-1978)
- Scooby-Doo
- Boo Boo Bear
- Mumbly
- Pixie
- Dirty Dalton
- Mr. Creepley
- Junior Creepley
- Announcer
- Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977-1980)
- Challenge of the Super Friends (1978)
- Dinky Dog (1978)
- Casper's First Christmas (1978)
- Boo Boo Bear
- The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (1978)
- Yogi's Space Race (1978)
- The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978)
- Quarry Worker
- Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978)
- Scooby-Doo
- Snorky
- Jabberjaw
- Godzilla (1978-1979)
- The All New Popeye Hour (1978-1983)
- Amigo and Friends (1979)
- The New Fred and Barney Show (1979)
- Bamm-Bamm Rubble
- Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979)
- Scooby-Doo
- The Super Globetrotters (1979)
- Time Lord
- The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1979)
- Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979-1980; 1980–1982)
- Scooby-Doo
- Scrappy-Doo (1980–1982)
- Yabba-Doo (1980–1982)
- Yogi's First Christmas (1980)
- Boo Boo Bear
- Ranger Smith
- Herman the Hermit
- Space Stars (1980)
- Astro
- Gloop and Gleep
- The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980-1982)
- The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980)
- Bamm-Bamm Rubble
- Vulture
- The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling (1980)
- Doctor
- Fish #1
- Fish #2
- Parrot
- Pigasaurus
- Drak Pack (1980–1982)
- The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (1980–1982)
- Scooby-Doo
- Scrappy-Doo
- The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (1980–1981)
- The Kwicky Koala Show (1981)
- The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (1981)
- Announcer
- The Smurfs (1981–1989)
- My Smurfy Valentine (1982)
- Papa Smurf
- Azreal
- Pac Preview Party (1982)
- Scooby-Doo
- Scrappy-Doo
- The Flintstone Funnies (1982-1984)
- The Smurfs Springtime Special (1982)
- Papa Smurf
- Azreal
- The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda (1990-1991)
Other roles
Messick was the voice of the Autobots Gears and Ratchet, and Deception Scavenger in the animated TV series The Transformers, and when Tom Ruegger was due to their previous collaborations on Scooby-Doo, Tom Ruegger cast Messick as Hampton J. Pig in Tiny Toons Adventures. He also spoofed Doctor Quest in an episode of Freakazoid!, playing the role of Doctor Vernon Danger.
In 1984, art imitates life in the short-lived sitcom The Duck Factory, when Messick played a voice actor called Wally Wooster, known for voicing the cartoon duck, Dippy Duck. This was his only live-action starring role.
References
- People
- Actors
- Arabian Knights actors
- Arabian Knights
- Around the World in 79 Days actors
- Around the World in 79 Days
- Birdman actors
- Birdman
- CB Bears (TV series)
- Drak Pack actors
- Drak Pack
- Flintstones (franchise)
- Flintstones actors
- Foofur actors
- Foorfur
- Hanna-Barbera
- Herculoids actors
- Herculoids
- Heyyy, It's the King! actors
- Heyyy, It's the King!
- Hillbilly Bears actors
- Hillbilly Bears
- Jack and the Beanstalk actors
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Jetsons (franchise)
- Jetsons actors
- Jonny Quest actors
- Jonny Quest
- Laff-A-Lympics actors
- Laff-A-Lympics
- Pixie and Dixie actors
- Pixie and Dixie
- Quick Draw McGraw actors
- Quick Draw McGraw
- Ruff and Reddy actors
- Ruff and Reddy
- Scooby-Doo actors
- Scooby-Doo
- The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda actors
- The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda
- The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series
- The Huckleberry Hound Show
- The Peter Potamus Show
- The Quick Draw McGraw Show
- The Space Kidettes actors
- The Space Kidettes
- The Yogi Bear Show
- These Are the Days actors
- These Are the Days
- Wacky Races actors
- Wacky Races
- Wally Gator actors
- Wally Gator
- Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch actors
- Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch
- Where's Huddles? actors
- Where's Huddles?
- Yogi Bear actors
- Yogi Bear