Tregoweth Edmond "Treg" Brown (November 4, 1899 – April 28, 1984) was an American

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sound editor who was responsible for conceiving, recording and selecting the

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library in

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' ''

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'' and ''

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'' cartoons from 1936 to 1963. Before that, he worked with

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. Adding to this, he also gave fellow Warner Bros voice actor

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his big break. He also won the 1966 Academy Award for Sound Effects for his work on the film ''

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''. Reputedly, he vaguely resembled Blanc and was a musician who once played jazz guitar with

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and his Five Pennies. In the Warner Bros. cartoon '' One Froggy Evening'' (1955), the skyscraper into which Michigan J. Frog is entombed is named the "Tregoweth Brown Building". Paying tribute to Brown's comedic aural contributions to classic cartoons, Blanc opined: "The real challenge for any animated-film sound-effects man wasn't to simulate realism but to defy it. Much Warner's cartoon hilarity stemmed from Brown's outlandish imagination. Why always apply the fitting sound effect, went his thinking, when something completely incongruous would be so much funnier?"Ibid.

Select Filmography

*'' The Bugs n' Daffy Show'' *'' Devil May Hare'' *'' Zip Zip Hooray!'' *'' Freudy Cat'' *'' Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare'' *'' One Froggy Evening'' *'' Now Hear This''

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* * 1899 births 1984 deaths American sound editors Best Sound Editing Academy Award winners People from Gilbert, Minnesota Warner Bros. Discovery people Warner Bros. people Warner Bros. Cartoons people {{US-sound-editor-stub