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Laff-a-Lympics
''Laff-A-Lympics'' is an American animated comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series premiered as part of the Saturday-morning cartoon program block '' Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'', which consists of 24 episodes, on ABC on September 10, 1977. The show is a spoof of the Olympics and the ABC primetime series '' Battle of the Network Stars'', which debuted one year earlier. It featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters organized into teams (the Scooby Doobies, the Yogi Yahooeys, and the Really Rottens) which competed each week for gold, silver, and bronze medals. In each episode, the Really Rottens would try in each event to cheat only to get caught by Snagglepuss each time. One season of 16 episodes was produced in 1977–78, and eight new episodes combined with reruns for the 1978–79 season as '' Scooby's All-Stars''. Unlike most cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, ''Laff-A-Lympics'' did not contain a laugh track. ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snagglepuss
Snagglepuss is a fictional cartoon character who debuted in prototype form on ''The Quick Draw McGraw Show'' in 1959 and was established as a studio regular by 1961. A light pink anthropomorphic Puma (species), puma sporting an upturned collar, shirt cuffs, and bow tie, Snagglepuss enjoys the finer things in life and shows a particular affinity for the theatre. His stories routinely break the fourth wall as the character addresses the audience in self-narrator, narration, soliloquy, and asides. As originally voiced by Daws Butler, Snagglepuss seeks quasi-William Shakespeare, Shakespearean turns of phrase. Some of his camp (style), campy verbal mannerisms became catchphrases: "Heavens to Murgatroyd!", "Exit, Blocking (stage)#Stage directions, stage left!", and using emphatic "even" at the end of sentences. History A pink puma known as "Snaggletooth", featuring the eventual character's general manner and Bert Lahr–inspired voice but without collar or cuffs, first appeared on telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildew Wolf
Mildew Wolf is a fictional anthropomorphic wolf, main antagonist, and title character of the '' Cattanooga Cats'' segment '' It's the Wolf!''. He is the most popular character of the series, and he was voiced by an uncredited Paul Lynde. Biography Mildew's main goal in the segments was to catch a little sheep named Lambsy, but he was always thwarted by Lambsy's sheep dog friend and bodyguard, Bristlehound. Other appearances * In 1977–78, Mildew became a co-host (with Snagglepuss) on the ''Laff-A-Lympics'' segments of '' Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics / Scooby's All-Stars''. He was voiced by John Stephenson. * Mildew Wolf appeared in ''A Yabba-Dabba-Doo Celebration! 50 Years of Hanna-Barbera''. * Mildew Wolf appears in '' Jellystone!'', voiced by Bernardo de Paula. He is depicted as being highly accident-prone, as well as bisexual Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Schreffler
Marilyn Sue Schreffler (June 14, 1945 – January 7, 1988) was an American voice actress who provided voice-overs for several animated television series, mostly for Hanna-Barbera Productions. Biography Marilyn Schreffler was born in Wichita, Kansas, on June 14, 1945. She graduated from Topeka West High School in 1963. She briefly attended Washburn University before moving on to Chicago and Cleveland, where she worked in several comedy groups. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Schreffler had moved to Los Angeles and began her career doing voice-overs for animated TV programs. at The Wichita Eagle Her first television voice-over roles for |
Don Messick
Donald Earle Messick (September 7, 1926 – October 24, 1997) was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo; Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in ''The Flintstones''; Astro in '' The Jetsons''; Muttley in '' Wacky Races'' and ''Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines''; Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in '' The Yogi Bear Show''; Sebastian the Cat in '' Josie and the Pussycats''; Gears, Ratchet, and Scavenger in '' The Transformers''; Papa Smurf and Azrael in '' The Smurfs''; Hamton J. Pig in ''Tiny Toon Adventures''; and Dr. Benton Quest in '' Jonny Quest''. Early life Messick was born on September 7, 1926, in Buffalo, New York, the son of Binford Earl Messick, a house painter, and Lena Birch ( Hughes). He had one brother, F. Thomas Messick. He was raised in the Bolton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, where he received his early training as a performer at the Ramsay Street School of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernee Watson-Johnson
Vernee Christell Johnson (née Watson; born September 28, 1949) is an American actress, author, and acting coach. Watson-Johnson is known for her recurring roles as Vernajean Williams on '' Welcome Back, Kotter'' (1975–1979), as Viola "Vy" Smith on '' The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' (1990–1996), playing the mother of Will Smith's character and head nurse Gloria Tyler on '' Bob Hearts Abishola'' (2019–2024). She is often featured in guest or recurring roles as a nurse. Since 2017 she has played Stella Henry on ''General Hospital''. Early life Vernee Christell Watson was born in New York City, where she was also raised. She graduated from Cathedral High School and New York University with a major in drama. She began her professional career at age 17 with the Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble in Manhattan and would tour with the group for five years. Career Watson-Johnson played Blue's love interest in the 1972 film '' Trick Baby''. She was also a regular cast member of the 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Besser
Joe Besser (born Jessel Besser, August 12, 1907 – March 1, 1988) was an American actor and comedian known for his impish humor and wimpy characters. He is best known for his brief stint as a member of The Three Stooges in movie short subjects of 1957–1959. He is also remembered for his television roles: Stinky, the bratty man-child on '' The Abbott and Costello Show'', and Jillson, the maintenance man on '' The Joey Bishop Show''. Early life Besser was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 12, 1907. He was the ninth child of Morris and Fanny echtBesser, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He had seven older sisters and an older brother, Manny, who was in show business, primarily as an ethnic Jewish comic. From an early age, Joe was fascinated with show business, especially the magic act of Howard Thurston that visited St. Louis annually. When Joe was 12, Thurston allowed him to be an audience plant. Besser was so excited by this that he sneaked into Thurston's train ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Reed
Alan Reed (born Herbert Theodore Bergman; August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977) was an American actor, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on ''The Flintstones'' and various spinoff series. He also appeared in many films, including '' Days of Glory'', '' The Tarnished Angels'', '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'', '' Viva Zapata!'' and '' Nob Hill'', as well as several television and radio series. Early life Herbert Theodore Bergman was born on August 20, 1907, in New York City to Jewish parents. His father was a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant and his mother was born in the United States to Ukrainian-Jewish parents from Galicia."Fred Flintstone: A Stone Age Star With A Jewish Voice." ''Jewish Humor Central.com'', October 10, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Kasem
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably ''American Top 40'', as well as the weekly syndicated television series ''America's Top 10''. He was the first actor to voice Shaggy Rogers in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise (1969 to 1997 and 2002 to 2009) and Dick Grayson/Robin in ''Super Friends'' (1973–1985). Kasem began hosting the original ''American Top 40'' on the weekend of July 4, 1970, and remained there until 1988. He hosted ''Casey's Top 40'' from January 1989 to February 1998, then revived ''American Top 40'' in 1998. He hosted two countdowns for the adult contemporary format from 1992 to 2009. He also founded the ''American Video Awards'' in 1983 and continued to co-produce and host it until its final show in 1987. Kasem provided many commercial voiceovers, performed many voices for children's television (such as ''Sesame Street'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ; formerly known as H-B Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. and H-B Production Co.), simply and commonly known as Hanna-Barbera, was an American animation studio and production company, which was active from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001. Founded on July 7, 1957 by ''Tom and Jerry'' creators and former MGM Cartoons employees William Hanna and Joseph Barbera along with George Sidney, it was headquartered in Los Angeles at the Kling Studios from 1957 to 1960, then on Cahuenga Boulevard from 1960 to 1998, and subsequently at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Sherman Oaks from 1998 to 2001. Notable among the cartoons that the company produced include '' The Huckleberry Hound Show'', the incarnations, feature films and other media of ''The Flintstones'', '' Yogi Bear'' and ''Scooby-Doo'' and '' The Smurfs''. With these productions, Hanna-Barbera may have usurped Disney as the most successful animation st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoyt Curtin
Hoyt Stoddard Curtin (September 9, 1922 – December 3, 2000) was an American composer, music producer and the primary musical director for Hanna-Barbera from its beginnings with '' The Ruff & Reddy Show'' from 1957 to 1965, and again from 1972 to 1986 until his retirement in 1989. Curtin composed many of the theme songs for Hanna-Barbera's cartoons, including ''The Flintstones'', '' The Jetsons'', '' The Huckleberry Hound Show'', '' The Yogi Bear Show'', '' Quick Draw McGraw'', ''Top Cat'', '' Jonny Quest'', '' Space Ghost'', '' Super Friends'', '' Josie and the Pussycats'', '' The Smurfs'', and '' The New Scooby-Doo Movies''. In 1960, Curtin also started composing the incidental music for many Hanna-Barbera animated series. During his five decade career, Curtin wrote, conducted and produced thousands of unique theme songs, musical cues and libraries of incidental music used during the production of animated cartoon shows. For instance, there are currently 2,047 of his composit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stephenson (actor)
John Winfield Stephenson (born – May 15, 2015) was an American actor who worked primarily in voice-over roles. Early life Stephenson was from Kenosha, Wisconsin. After serving in the United States Army Air Forces as a gunner and radio operator during World War II, Stephenson took a course in speech and drama at Northwestern University and graduated with a theater degree before moving to Hollywood. Death Stephenson died of Alzheimer's disease, aged 91 on May 15, 2015. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, their two children (a son and a daughter) and a granddaughter. Filmography Film *''Spartacus'' – Centurion (uncredited) (1960) *'' The Man Called Flintstone'' – Vet (1966) *'' Hellfighters'' – Mr. Chapman (uncredited) (1968) *''Charlotte's Web'' – John Arable (1973) *''Herbie Rides Again'' – Lawyer-Second Team (1974) *''The Last of the Mohicans'' – TV Movie – Colonel Allen Munro/Delaware Chief (1975) *'' The Hobbit'' – TV M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Owens
Gary Owens (born Gary Bernard Altman; May 10, 1934 – February 12, 2015) was an American disc jockey, voice actor, announcer and radio personality. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In''. Owens was equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and was frequently heard on television and radio as well as in commercials. He was best known, aside from being the announcer on ''Laugh-In'', for providing the voices of the Space Ghost, titular superhero on ''Space Ghost (TV series), Space Ghost'' and of Blue Falcon in ''Dynomutt, Dog Wonder''. He also played himself in a cameo appearance on ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' in 1998. Owens' first cartoon-voice acting was performing the voice of Roger Ramjet on the ''Roger Ramjet'' cartoons. He later served as announcer of Antenna TV. Early life Owens was born in Mitchell, South Dakota, the son of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
