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Don Messick

1926 - 1997

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Donald Earle Messick (September 7, 1926 – October 24, 1997) was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in The Flintstones, Astro in The Jetsons, Muttley in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show, Sebastian the Cat in Josie and the Pussycats; Gears, Ratchet, and Scavenger in The Transformers, Papa Smurf and Azrael in The Smurfs, Hamton J. Pig in Tiny Toon Adventures, and Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don Messick has received more than 1,618,284 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Don Messick is the 7,542nd most popular actor (down from 7,139th in 2019), the 11,125th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,609th in 2019) and the 3,491st most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Don Messicks by language

Over the past year Don Messick has had the most page views in the with 198,222 views, followed by Spanish (5,308), and Italian (2,276). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (72.05%), Asturian (63.93%), and Icelandic (43.69%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Don Messick ranks 7,542 out of 13,578. Before him are Bill Mumy, Christine Taylor, Ralph Brown, Constance Cummings, Simon Rex, and Gao Yuanyuan. After him are Mikkel Følsgaard, Dana Ashbrook, Amanda Holden, Barbie Hsu, Margarita Levieva, and JR Bourne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Don Messick ranks 492. Before him are Larissa Volpert, Jimmy Bryan, Lionel Jeffries, Hakon Barfod, Rawya Ateya, and Bob Sweikert. After him are John Clellon Holmes, Rashidi Kawawa, Aldo Tarlao, Jan Morris, Kenneth Williams, and June Haver. Among people deceased in 1997, Don Messick ranks 301. Before him are John Porter, Gul Mohammed, Robert Herman, Rawya Ateya, Derek Taylor, and Max Bloesch. After him are Gulshan Kumar, Roger Laurent, Rod Milburn, Mario Velarde, Božena Srncová, and Yevgeni Mayorov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Messick ranks 11,125 out of 20,380. Before him are Constance Cummings (1910), George Simpson (1908), Robert L. Forward (1932), Simon Rex (1974), Vince Boryla (1927), and Eben Moglen (1959). After him are Susan Helms (1958), Dana Ashbrook (1967), Kim Fowley (1939), Jessica Meir (1977), David Miscavige (1960), and Mary Badham (1952).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Don Messick ranks 3,491. Before him are Kevin Cheng (1969), Rob Paulsen (1956), Bill Mumy (1954), Christine Taylor (1971), Constance Cummings (1910), and Simon Rex (1974). After him are Dana Ashbrook (1967), Mary Badham (1952), Charles Farrell (1900), Arlene Francis (1907), Tom Aldredge (1928), and Wade Dominguez (1966).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Tom and Jerry Show
The New Tom & Jerry Show is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television in 1975 for ABC based on the theatrical shorts and characters Tom and Jerry.
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The Smurfs
Papa Smurf (voice)
Classic Saturday-morning cartoon series featuring magical blue elf-like creatures called Smurfs. The Smurfs, named for their personalities, inhabit a village of mushroom houses in an enchanted forest. These loveable creatures are led by Papa Smurf and live carefree... except for one major threat to their existance: Gargamel, an evil but inept wizard who lives in a stone-built house in the forest; and his feline companion, the equally nasty Azrael.
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Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
Scooby-Doo / Scrappy-Doo (voice)
The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 22, 1979 and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. A total of sixteen episodes were produced. It was the last Hanna-Barbera cartoon series to use the studio's laugh track. Cartoon Network's classic channel Boomerang reruns the series.
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