Don Messick
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 or What's a Nice Kid like You Doing in a Place like This? (1965)
- A Laurel & Hardy Cartoon (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)
- The Abbott & Costello Cartoon Show (1967)
- Shazzan (1967)
- Young Samson (1967-1968)
- The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968)
- The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-1970)
- The Adventures of Gulliver (1968-1969)
- Wacky Races (1968-1969)
- The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969-1970)
- Dastardly & 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)
- Harlem Globetrotters (1970-1971)
- Hoppy ("The Great Geese Goof-Up", 1970)
- Anchorman ("The Great Geese Goof-Up", 1970)
- Basketball announcer ("The Great Geese Goof-Up", 1970)
- The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (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)
- A Christmas Story (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
- Azrael
- Pac Preview Party (1982)
- Scooby-Doo
- Scrappy-Doo
- The Flintstone Funnies (1982-1984)
- The Smurfs Springtime Special (1982)
- Papa Smurf
- Azrael
- 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
- A Christmas Story actors
- A Christmas Story
- Abbott & Costello actors
- Abbott & Costello
- Actors
- Addams Family actors
- Addams Family
- Arabian Knights actors
- Arabian Knights
- Around the World in 79 Days actors
- Around the World in 79 Days
- Birdman actors
- Birdman
- Captain Caveman actors
- Captain Caveman
- CB Bears (TV series)
- Dino Boy actors
- Dino Boy
- Don Coyote and Sancho Panda actors
- Don Coyote and Sancho Panda
- Drak Pack actors
- Drak Pack
- Dynomutt actors
- Dynomutt
- Flintstones (franchise)
- Flintstones actors
- Foofur actors
- Foofur
- Galaxy Trio actors
- Godzilla actors
- Godzilla
- Hanna-Barbera
- Harlem Globetrotters (franchise)
- Harlem Globetrotters actors
- Herculoids actors
- Herculoids
- Heyyy, It's the King! actors
- Heyyy, It's the King!
- Hillbilly Bears actors
- Hillbilly Bears
- Hokey Wolf actors
- Hokey Wolf
- Jack and the Beanstalk actors
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Jetsons (franchise)
- Jetsons actors
- Jonny Quest actors
- Jonny Quest
- Josie and the Pussycats actors
- Josie and the Pussycats
- Laff-A-Lympics actors
- Laff-A-Lympics
- Laurel & Hardy actors
- Laurel & Hardy
- Lippy the Lion actors
- Lippy the Lion
- Lost in Space actors
- Lost in Space
- Micro Ventures actors
- Micro Ventures
- Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor actors
- Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor
- Pixie and Dixie actors
- Pixie and Dixie
- Quick Draw McGraw actors
- Quick Draw McGraw
- Ricochet Rabbit actors
- Ricochet Rabbit
- Ruff and Reddy actors
- Ruff and Reddy
- Scooby-Doo actors
- Scooby-Doo
- Shazzan actors
- Shazzan
- The Adventures of Gulliver actors
- The Adventures of Gulliver
- The Galaxy Trio
- 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
- Touché Turtle actors
- Touché Turtle
- Wacky Races actors
- Wacky Races
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home actors
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
- 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