10 Facts About Henry Corden

Henry Corden was a Canadian-born American actor, best known for assuming the voice of Fred Flintstone after the death of Alan Reed in 1977.

Henry Corden took over the role as Fred Flintstone full time starting with the syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends for which he provided voice-overs on brief bumper clips shown in-between segments.

Henry Corden's father was a meat curer who had been born in Romania; his mother was originally from Russia.

The family moved to the Bronx, New York when Henry Corden was a child and he arrived in Hollywood in the 1940s.

Henry Corden appeared on the stage in Los Angeles, including a 1947 production of The Message.

Henry Corden thought it would be the first time in 25 films he could wear his glasses and see while he was acting, but the lenses gave off too much reflection and he had to substitute them for plain glass after one day of shooting.

Henry Corden appeared in dozens of TV shows, including Hogan's Heroes, Dragnet, Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, McHale's Navy, Gunsmoke, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and was a regular on The Jerry Lewis Show.

Henry Corden gave voice to the wizard Gemini and Ookla the Mokk in Ruby-Spears Productions' Thundarr the Barbarian as well as the Gorilla General Urko in DePatie-Freleng Enterprises' Return to the Planet of the Apes.

Henry Corden voiced Arnie Barkley, the Archie Bunker-inspired patriarch of DePatie-Freleng's The Barkleys, in 1972.

Henry Corden died of emphysema at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, California on May 19 2005, at the age of 85.