Joe Alaskey Movies and Career Information

Joseph "Joe" Alaskey (born May 26, 1949) is an American actor, comedian, and voice artist, credited as one of the successors (including Billy West) of Mel Blanc in impersonating the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other characters from Warner Bros. cartoons. He was born in Watervliet, New York. His most frequent recurring Warner Bros. character roles have been those of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Beaky Buzzard, Sylvester the Cat, and Tweety, but he has voiced many others. Some of his other Looney Tunes roles include Yosemite Sam (Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries), Foghorn Leghorn (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, KFC commercials and Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas), Speedy Gonzales and Marvin the Martian. His first performance as Bugs Bunny came in the 2003 feature film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, although he had tested performing the role in a few projects. Alaskey has also voiced various Looney Tunes characters in several television shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures (where he played the character Plucky Duck, Daffy Duck's preteen counterpart) and Duck Dodgers. In 2010, Alaskey will return as Sylvester, Tweety, and Pepe Le Pew in Cartoon Network's