1. Winfield Bennett Mercer, known professionally as Jack Mercer, was an American voice actor.
12 Facts About Jack Mercer
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Jack Mercer is best known as the voice of cartoon characters Popeye the Sailor Man and Felix the Cat.
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Jack Mercer liked to imitate voices, including one close call when he mimicked the high-pitched and loud voice of the wife of one of the Fleischers after he mistakenly thought she had left the studio.
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Jack Mercer had begun imitating Costello's interpretation of Popeye, and he practiced it until his voice "cracked" just right and he had it down.
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Jack Mercer voiced Popeye for more than 40 years, first for the Fleischers, then for Paramount's Famous Studios cartoons, then for a series of television cartoons for King Features Syndicate, and finally for a Saturday-morning cartoon show produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
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Jack Mercer read the lines for the opening segment of the 1980 the live action film; the film's regular role of Popeye was played by Robin Williams.
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Jack Mercer was regularly cast with Pinto Colvig.
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Jack Mercer wrote hundreds of scripts for various cartoon series at Paramount, including a number of Popeye episodes, as well as for television's Deputy Dawg and Milton the Monster.
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Jack Mercer appeared as himself on a 1973 episode of To Tell the Truth, receiving one of four possible votes.
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Jack Mercer later married Virginia Caroll, and the couple remained married until Mercer's death in 1984.
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Originally a resident of New York City, Jack Mercer moved to Miami, Florida, when Fleischer Studios relocated there in 1938.
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Jack Mercer died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on December 7,1984, after stomach cancer-related problems.