Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc
Years active at Hanna-Barbera	1959-1989
Characters played	Barney Rubble Dino Hardy Har Har Cosmo Spacely Droop-a-long Coyote Sneezly Secret Squirrel Yak Yak Bully Brothers Chug-a-Boom Bubba McCoy Zonk Stub Speed Buggy Captain Caveman

Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was an American voice actor. For Hanna-Barbera, he was best known as the voice of Barney Rubble, Dino, Mr. Spacely, Secret Squirrel, Speed Buggy, and Captain Caveman!

Blanc died on July 10, 1989, at the age of 81. Jetsons: The Movie, one of his last roles, was dedicated to him.

Roles

20th century

• Loopy De Loop (1959-1965)
• The Flintstones (1960-1966)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series (1962-1963)
  • Hardy Har Har
• The Jetsons (1962-1963; 1985-1987)
  • Cosmo Spacely
• Tom and Jerry (1963-1967)
  • Tom Cat
  • Jerry Mouse
• The Magilla Gorilla Show (1964-1965)
  • Droop-a-long Coyote
• The Peter Potamus Show (1964-1966)
  • Sneezly
• Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (1964)
  • Grifter Chizzling
• The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (1965-1967)
  • Secret Squirrel
• Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt (1965-1966)
  • Salty
• The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
  • Barney Rubble
• The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969-1970)
  • Yak Yak
  • Bully Brothers
  • Chug-a-Boom
• Where's Huddles? (1970)
  • Bubba McCoy
• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971-1973)
  • Barney Rubble
• The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972-1973)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
  • Zonk
  • Stub
• Speed Buggy (1973)
  • Speed Buggy
• The New Scooby-Doo Movies
  • Speed Buggy ("The Weird Winds of Winona," 1973)
• Fred Flinstone and Friends (1977-1978)
• Laff-A-Lympics (1977-1978)
  • Speed Buggy
  • Captain Caveman
  • Barney Rubble
• Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977-1978)
  • Barney Rubble
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977-1980)
  • Captain Caveman
• A Flintstone Christmas (1977)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978)
  • Barney Rubble
• Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• Galaxy Goof-Ups (1978-1979)
  • Quack-Up
• Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• The New Fred and Barney Show (1979)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979-1980)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling (1980)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980-1982)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
  • Captain Caveman
• The Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981)
  • Barney Rubble
• The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (1981)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• Trollkins (1981-1982)
  • TBA
• Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982)
  • Barney Rubble
• The Flintstone Funnies (1982-1984)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Captain Caveman
• The Flintstone Kids (1986-1988)
  • Dino
  • Robert Rubble
  • Captain Caveman
  • Piggy McGrabit
• The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986)
  • Barney Rubble
• The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
  • Cosmo Spacely
• Rockin' with Judy Jetson (1988)
  • Cosmo Spacely
• Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989)
  • Barney Rubble
  • Dino
• Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
  • Cosmo Spacely
• The Flintstones (1994)
  • Dino (archival recordings)
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
  • Dino (archival recordings)

Other roles

Before working for Hanna-Barbera, Blanc made a prolific career on The Jack Benny Program (in both its radio and TV forms), and as the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and most of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons. He was also both Tom and Jerry in MGM's 1960s theatrical shorts, Twiki in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Heathcliffe the cat in the DIC incarnation.