Mel Blanc

From 1939 until the radio series ended in 1955, Blanc was a regular voice on The Jack Benny Program, playing violin teacher Professor LeBlanc, Polly the parrot, Benny's pet polar bear Carmichael and the train announcer, and he followed the show to television. Source: Wikipedia: Mel Blanc

He was also the sputtering engine of Jack Benny's worn-out Maxwell car. The part started by accident: a recording of the car failed to play on cue, Blanc made the noises himself at the microphone, and Benny dropped the recording and kept him. Source: Wikipedia: Mel Blanc

As Benny's train-station announcer, Blanc called a train on Track Five bound for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga, with a break in the last town's name. Source: Wikipedia: The Jack Benny Program

In a sketch heard many times on radio and later on television, Blanc played Sy, a Mexican man on a bench who answers Benny's every question with "Sí"; his name turns out to be Sy, and he is off to see his sister Sue, who sews. Source: Wikipedia: The Jack Benny Program

On The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show he played the Happy Postman from 1943 to 1947. Source: Wikipedia: Mel Blanc

His own CBS series, The Mel Blanc Show, ran from September 3, 1946, to June 24, 1947. He played himself as the hapless owner of a fix-it shop, plus his young cousin Zookie. Source: Wikipedia: Mel Blanc

Colgate sponsored The Mel Blanc Show, and a May 1947 Billboard report said the sponsor had ordered it dropped at the end of its run on June 24. Source: Wikipedia: The Mel Blanc Show

Blanc started in radio in 1927, at 19, on The Hoot Owls on station KGW. He later worked on The Abbott and Costello Show, The Judy Canova Show and The Great Gildersleeve. Source: Wikipedia: Mel Blanc

Born May 30, 1908, in San Francisco, he became the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and many other Warner Bros. cartoon characters, and died in Los Angeles on July 10, 1989. Source: Wikipedia: Mel Blanc