Jeff Bergman shared the roles of Blanc's characters with Greg Burson and Joe Alaskey before their respective deaths in 2008 and 2016, as well as Bob Bergen, Billy West, Jim Cummings, Maurice LaMarche, Fred Tatasciore, and Eric Bauza for various Warner Bros.
17 Facts About Jeff Bergman
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Jeff Bergman was born on July 10,1960, to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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At the age of 15, Jeff Bergman began doing impressions of various Looney Tunes characters.
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Jeff Bergman studied theatre and communications at the University of Pittsburgh where he first did voice work after becoming involved with a student-run radio station and interning at the KQV and WDVE radio stations.
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Jeff Bergman later tracked Blanc down and met him at his Oakland hotel room in 1981, where Jeff Bergman imitated Blanc's characters for him, earning himself a 45-minute session.
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Jeff Bergman voiced the Pillsbury Doughboy from 1986 to 2014 following Paul Frees' death in 1986.
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Jeff Bergman took the tape to the production company and used a switch to toggle back and forth between his work and the original Mel Blanc recording.
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Jeff Bergman voiced Bugs, as well as Daffy Duck, during the 1990 TV specials Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue and The Earth Day Special.
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Jeff Bergman later voiced Bugs and Daffy again as well as Elmer Fudd in the 1991 theatrical short Box-Office Bunny, Bugs's first in over 25 years.
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Jeff Bergman voiced Bugs, Daffy, Elmer and Yosemite Sam in the 1991 short Bunny, as well as several characters in animated TV specials and newer animated series such as Tiny Toon Adventures and The Plucky Duck Show.
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Outside of the Looney Tunes, Jeff Bergman voiced George Jetson and Mr Spacely in Jetsons: The Movie when their previous voice actors George O'Hanlon and Mel Blanc both died during production; he had been working at his local radio station in Pennsylvania when he received the call to travel to California and complete the dialogue.
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Jeff Bergman voiced George Jetson in the theme park attraction The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.
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Jeff Bergman returned for the 2015 series New Looney Tunes, voicing Bugs, Foghorn, Sylvester and Elmer Fudd, as well as other minor characters such as Michigan J Frog.
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From 2000 until 2015, Jeff Bergman was the announcer of Turner Broadcasting's Boomerang.
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Jeff Bergman had a recurring role as a radio intern Gus Kahana on the AMC comedy-drama Remember WENN, which aired in the late 1990s.
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Jeff Bergman provided the voice of Zap in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Skylanders: Giants, Skylanders: Swap Force, Skylanders: Trap Team, Skylanders: SuperChargers, and Skylanders: Imaginators.
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Jeff Bergman has voiced a large quantity of characters over his career.