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

Voice actor and comedian Mel Blanc was born in San Francisco and grew
up in Portland, Oregon where he attended Lincoln High School. He began
his nearly six-decade-long career in 1927 performing on the KGW radio
program The Hoot Owls.

Blanc earned the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Voices” when he
worked for Warner Bros. is best remembered for his work with Warner
Bros. during the "Golden Age of American animation" as the voice of
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and many more,

He later worked for Hanna- Barbera‘s television cartoons, most notably
as the voice of Barney Rubble in The Flintstones and Mr. Spacely
in The Jetsons. Mel Blanc was one of the most influential people
in the voice-acting industry.

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Mel Blanc (far right) was a cast member of the first Jack Benny radio show 
along with Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Dennis Day and
Rochester.
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Mel on The David Letterman Show

Albert Edward Sterner’s "Portrait of Rollin Kirby" ,1931

Rollin Kirby (September 4, 1875 – May 8, 1952) was a political
cartoonist for the New York World and the New York Post. He
was the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
for his cartoon “on the Road to Moscow”. Kirby received the
Pulitzer for his cartooning again in 1924 and 1928. 

Although currently retired,radio personality Casey Kasem is still
heard on reruns of the weekly syndicated radio programs based
on the American Top 40 franchise. He does some voice acting
and commercials. In 1985, Kasem was inducted into the National
Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame radio division.

         Hans Georg Conried, Jr. (April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982)

Hans Conried was an comedian, character actor and popular voice actor who 
appeared regularly on many radio shows during the 1940s and 1950s, notably 
the George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, on which he played a psychiatrist. His 
many television guest appearances included such shows as The Monkees
and I Love Lucy. Conried also was a cast member of The Rocky and Bullwinkle
Show, voicing the character of Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right
shorts. He also hosted Fractured Flickers, a live-action syndicated half-hour
television comedy show .Critics regarded Conried as one of the great comic
character actors. 

Spinach growers in Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue to honor E.C. Segar 
and his comic strip character Popeye for their positive influence on America’s
eating habits, making Popeye the first cartoon character to be immortalized in
public sculpture. 

E.C. Segar