Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)

Blanc was born  in San Francisco, Ca., later moving to Portland, Or.
where he attended Lincoln High School. He began a radio career in
1927 as a voice actor on the KGW program The Hoot Owls. In 1933,
after a stint in Los Angeles, Blanc returned to Portland and worked at
KEX radio where he produced and co-hosted a show called Cobweb
And Nuts.

Mel returned to Los Angeles in 1935 and joined Warner Bros.–owned
KFWB radio in Hollywood. He soon became a regular on NBC’s The
Jack Benny Program, playing various roles.

Mel Blanc, "The Man of a Thousand Voices", is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry. He was the first voice artist
in Hollywood to receive screen credit.

   Gary Cooper (Frank James Cooper) (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)

Cooper’s career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death, and
comprised more than one hundred films, one of which was in 1952 when
he played Marshall Will Kane in High Noon. Before fame, Cooper was a
newspaper editorial cartoonist in Helena, Montana.

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Hank Ketcham with his son Dennis, on whom the cartoon was based

Henry King Ketcham (March 14, 1920 – June 1, 2001)

Hank Ketcham was a Painter and cartoonist who created Dennis
the Menace comic strip in 1951. Ketcham was born in Seattle,
Washington and dropped out of the University of Washington
after one year and hitchhiked to California, hoping to work for
the Disney studios.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mickey Mouse cartoons are coming back to TV as Disney attempts to revive one of the world’s most popular characters.

The 19 episodes, hand-drawn and in 2-D, will debut June 28 on the Disney Channel, Disney.com and the Watch Disney Channel app.

In a preview on Disney.com, Mickey and Minnie are working at a Paris cafe when
they face a shortage of croissants. In the 3-minute, 30-second cartoon, Mickey
goes on an adventurous trip through the city to fulfill their orders.

Walt Disney Co.’s CEO Bob Iger told CNBC on Tuesday that the shorts harken
back to the days of founder Walt Disney, highlighting Mickey’s "impish" and
"innocent" qualities.

Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger