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Mel Blanc

1908 - 1989

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Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy radio programs, including those of Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, The Great Gildersleeve, Judy Canova, and his own short-lived sitcom. However, he became known worldwide for his work in the Golden Age of American Animation as the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, and numerous other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons. Blanc also voiced the Looney Tunes characters Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd after replacing their original performers Joe Dougherty and Arthur Q. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mel Blanc has received more than 6,225,387 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Mel Blanc is the 1,791st most popular actor (up from 1,828th in 2019), the 2,992nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,155th in 2019) and the 855th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mel Blanc ranks 1,791 out of 9,996. Before him are Johnny Galecki, Peter Alexander, Matthew Fox, Harry Reems, Luke Evans, and Rossano Brazzi. After him are Lucélia Santos, Frank Vincent, Rosa Albach-Retty, Miranda Otto, Lilian Harvey, and Divine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Mel Blanc ranks 122. Before him are Françoise Dolto, Ivan Yefremov, Robert Rossen, Michel Marcel Navratil, Sam Giancana, and Edgar Faure. After him are Vazgen I, Paul Henreid, Alejandro Scopelli, John Mills, Richard Wright, and Jack Williamson. Among people deceased in 1989, Mel Blanc ranks 100. Before him are Carlos Puebla, Sergei Sobolev, Franz Binder, Elisaveta Bykova, Abbie Hoffman, and André Cayatte. After him are Hans Hellmut Kirst, Ahmed Abdallah, Arnaldo Ochoa, Gerhard Schröder, Riccardo Morandi, and Uichiro Hatta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mel Blanc ranks 2,992 out of 18,182. Before him are Harry Reems (1947), Jennifer Rush (1960), Murray Perahia (1947), Winfield Scott (1786), Edward Bunker (1933), and Natalie Cole (1950). After him are Chester Barnard (1886), Frank Vincent (1939), Lee Haney (1959), John Lasseter (1957), Dee Dee Warwick (1942), and Divine (1945).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Mel Blanc ranks 855. Before him are Eddie Fisher (1928), Christina Applegate (1971), Melissa Gilbert (1964), Dorothy Gibson (1889), Matthew Fox (1966), and Harry Reems (1947). After him are Frank Vincent (1939), Divine (1945), Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), Robert Davi (1953), Nancy Allen (1950), and Peter MacNicol (1954).

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