Joe Alaskey
Joe Alaskey ( born May 26, 1949 in Watervliet, New York ) is an American actor and voice actor. In addition to his role as Uncle Beano in the sitcom My father is an alien is Alaskey best known as the spokesman of the Looney Tunes characters Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.
Biography
Joe Alaskey began his career as a stand - up comedian and worked as a speaker at a Boston radio station. There he met Bill Scott, the creator of the cartoon series The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. Scott was impressed by Alaskeys skills as a voice imitator and took him in 1985 to Los Angeles. Alaskey received some minor roles in various animated series.
In 1987, Alaskey his breakthrough as an actor in the sitcom My father is an alien, in which he played the uncle of the girl Evie illustrated by Maureen Flannigan with psychic abilities. Alaskey left the series at the beginning of the third season. In addition, Alaskey 1989 participated in the game show couch potatoes as an announcer.
Parallel to his involvement with My father is an alien Alaskey was still active as a speaker at cartoon productions. So he played several guest roles in the re-launched by Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse series. In addition, Alaskey became repeated as voice imitator publicly. It was especially popular Alaskeys imitation of actor Jackie Gleason. In the late 1980s, a formerly -lost episode of Gleason Show The Honeymooners was restored, Alaskey Gleason said a new dialogues.
In 1988 Alaskey the first time the role of Looney Tunes characters. In the feature film Who Framed Roger Rabbit Alaskey said the figures Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn. Mel Blanc, who had spoken before these characters in the Warner Bros. Cartoons, also starred in the film. Two years later Alaskey played in the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures the style similar to Daffy Duck " Plucky Duck". After Blancs death Alaskey took over more figures, saying among other things, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Sylvester the cat in the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action. In the animated series Duck Dogers Alaskey spoke next to Daffy Duck ( Duck of Dogers played ) also its nemesis Marvin the Martian.
In addition to his work for Warner Joe Alaskey took over the role of the grandfather in the animated series Rugrats after David Doyle's death in 1997. The same figure he also spoke in the Rugrats feature films as well as in the follow-up series All Grown Up - Almost grown up. In addition, Alaskey acted as spokesman in numerous computer games, including the games Escape from Monkey Iceland and Gothic 3
Published in 2009 Alaskey his autobiography That's Still Not All Folks! .