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Joseph Tapley Dougherty (November 4, 1898 – April 19, 1978) [1] was an American actor, who provided the original voice of the Warner Bros. animation character, Porky Pig, starting with the character's debut in I Haven't Got a Hat in 1935 through Porky's Romance in 1937. Treg Brown changed his voice for Porky.
Porky shared his stutter with the voice actor who originally played him, Joe Dougherty, who was actually a person who stuttered. Because Dougherty could not control his stutter, however, production costs became too high as his recording sessions took hours, and Porky's additional lines were done by Count Cutelli. [1]
Porky's Romance is significant in that it is the last cartoon that had Joe Dougherty as the voice of Porky Pig before Mel Blanc got the job and exclusive voice credit contract. Dougherty's uncontrollable stutter had made it extremely difficult for the producers to work with him; such frustrations were evident in the cartoon's production, much ...
In this short, Porky Pig stars alongside Daffy Duck, marking Daffy's debut. Mel Blanc voices both characters, originally slated to voice only Daffy but taking over as Porky due to Joe Dougherty's firing after Porky's Romance due to his stutter. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Joe Alaskey, best known for providing the iconic voices of Looney Tunes legends Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety and Marvin the Martian, died Wednesday.
Huntley got by with a little help from his incredible voice on The Voice's Top 12 live show on Monday.The singer and single dad dedicated the performance to his mom, who brought the singer to ...
The first cartoon Blanc worked on was Picador Porky (1937) as the voice of Porky's drunken friends who dress up as a bull. [12] He soon after received his first starring role when he replaced Joe Dougherty as Porky Pig's voice in Porky's Duck Hunt, which marked the debut of Daffy Duck, also voiced by Blanc.
Joe Castiglione, left, radio voice of the Boston Red Sox since 1983, throws out a ceremonial first pitch during pregame ceremonies for Castiglione, before the Tampa Bay Rays played the Red Sox in ...