1. Joseph Francis Alaskey III was an American actor and comedian.
24 Facts About Joe Alaskey
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Joe Alaskey was one of Mel Blanc's successors at the Warner Bros.
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Joe Alaskey voiced Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures from 1990 to 1995.
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Joe Alaskey was the second actor to voice Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats.
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Joe Alaskey was born in Troy, New York, on April 17,1952 to Joseph Francis Joe Alaskey Jr.
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Joe Alaskey was interested in archeology at the age of ten.
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Joe Alaskey moved to New York City in the 1970s, where he worked in insurance while preparing to become an actor.
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Joe Alaskey was occasionally seen onscreen impersonating Jackie Gleason, with whom he shared a physical resemblance.
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In 1985, Joe Alaskey provided various voices for Galtar and the Golden Lance.
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Joe Alaskey was in several television shows including Night Court, Head of the Class, Back to the Future, and Spitting Image: The 1987 Movie Awards.
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Joe Alaskey provided a vocal Gleason impersonation in the "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy" episode of Bakshi-Hyde Ventures' Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures in 1988, and a Cary Grant impersonation in "The Bride of Mighty Mouse" episode from the same season.
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Joe Alaskey has voiced Grandpa Lou Pickles on Rugrats.
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Joe Alaskey created the voice of Thomas Timberwolf for the internet series TimberWolf, created by animation legend Chuck Jones.
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Joe Alaskey was heard briefly as a voice-over announcer for the Toon Disney channel.
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Joe Alaskey was the voice of Curt Connors in the Spider-Man 2 video game and Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: Friend or Foe.
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Joe Alaskey voiced Stinkie in Casper as well as that film's 1996 animated spin-off, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper.
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Joe Alaskey played Beano Froelich in Out of This World but left the show early in its final season, making only infrequent appearances in a few episodes.
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Joe Alaskey made several onscreen appearances, portraying the show's "next door neighbor".
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Joe Alaskey was the primary voice for Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures.
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In 2008, Joe Alaskey participated in a unique interview conducted by Logan Leistikow and released by TheYellowMic.
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Joe Alaskey answered questions and told his story, then went out onto Hollywood Boulevard and talked to people on the street who wanted to hear his famous voices.
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In 2014, Joe Alaskey started narrating the television documentary series Murder Comes to Town, which airs on the Investigation Discovery Network.
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Joe Alaskey's only leading role in a live-action film was as lovable loser Ron Douglas in the black comedy Lucky Stiff, directed by Anthony Perkins and co-starring Donna Dixon and Jeff Kober.
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Joe Alaskey died in his apartment in Green Island, New York, from cancer with his brother by his side on February 3,2016, at the age of 63.