Robert McKimson also featured the character in a film that year, Strife with Father. Freleng made the buzzard smarter, pitting him against a dim-witted lion named Leo. The character was eventually brought back in the 1950 Friz Freleng film The Lion's Busy, now voiced by Mel Blanc. Rogers reprised his role as the character's voice for the film, but he was killed in a Naval aviation training accident at Pensacola, Florida before finishing all his dialogue.Ĭlampett left the studio in 1946, ending Beaky's career for a time. Ĭlampett brought the character back in the 1945 film The Bashful Buzzard, a cartoon that closely mirrors its predecessor, only this time featuring Beaky's hapless hunting (contrasting with the war-like formation flying and dive bombing of his brothers) without Bugs as an antagonist. The voice itself was provided by voice actor Kent Rogers. Beaky's voice was reminiscent of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's character Mortimer Snerd (his in-studio name was in fact "Snerd Bird", bestowed by Bob Clampett himself he was not named "Beaky" on-screen in this first appearance). The cartoon's plot revolves around the hopeless attempts of the brainless buzzard, here called Killer, to catch Bugs Bunny for his domineering Eastern European mother back at the nest. The character first appeared in the 1942 cartoon Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid, directed by Bob Clampett. In the 1940s, the character was also disproportionally popular in comics (see below). The films were popular in theaters, and Beaky was familiar enough to be given roles in more recent productions. The character is depicted as simpleminded with drawled speech, a perpetual silly grin, and partially-closed eyes.īeaky was partly based on Edgar Bergen's puppet Mortimer Snerd. His neck and head are featherless, and his beak and feet are large and yellow or orange, depending on the cartoon. His neck is long and thin, bending 90 degrees at an enormous Adam's apple. He is a young turkey vulture (sometimes called a "buzzard" in the United States) with black body feathers and a white tuft around his throat.
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Beaky Buzzard in Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)īeaky Buzzard is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros.
0 kommentar(er)
