Woody Woodpecker is an animated character that appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio and distributed by Universal Studios between 1940 and 1972.
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25 Facts About Woody Woodpecker
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Woody Woodpecker cartoons were first broadcast on television in 1957 under the title The Woody Woodpecker Show, which featured Lantz cartoons bookended by new footage of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz.
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Lantz produced theatrical cartoons longer than most of his contemporaries, and Woody Woodpecker remained a staple of Universal's release schedule until 1972, when Lantz finally closed down his studio.
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The character has been revived since then for special productions and occasions, as well as for The New Woody Woodpecker Show, a Saturday-morning cartoon television series featuring prolific voice actor Billy West as Woody that aired from 1999 to 2002.
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Woody Woodpecker has a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the short Knock Knock on November 25,1940.
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Ironically, Blanc's characterization of the Woody Woodpecker laugh had originally been applied to the prototype of Bugs Bunny, in shorts such as the aforementioned Elmer's Candid Camera and was later transferred to Woody.
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Woody Woodpecker'simage appeared on US aircraft as nose art, and on mess halls, and audiences on the homefront watched Woody cope with familiar problems such as food shortages.
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Woody Woodpecker's debut marked a change in directing style for Walter Lantz studio, since the character was heavily inspired by Tex Avery-created Looney Tunes character Daffy Duck at Warner Bros, and thus Woody's cartoons tended to have a hint of Tex Avery's style and influence in terms of humor, and that's what gave Walter Lantz studio its fame.
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In 1947, Woody got his own theme song when musicians George Tibbles and Ramey Idriss wrote "The Woody Woodpecker Song", making ample use of the character's famous laugh.
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Nine more Lantz-directed Woody Woodpecker cartoons followed, before Don Patterson became Woody Woodpecker's new director in 1952.
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However, Woody Woodpecker's eyes were not changed in the cartoon's intros, and they remained green for the rest of the shorts' production run.
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Several of Woody Woodpecker's recurring costars were introduced during this era, such as Gabby Gator .
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The half-hour program consisted of three theatrical Woody Woodpecker shorts followed by a brief look at cartoon creation hosted by Lantz.
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Woody Woodpecker's popularity had been based on his manic craziness, but by 1961, this had all but been eliminated in favor of a more serious Woody Woodpecker, a straight man trying to do good.
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Woody Woodpecker appeared in new theatrical shorts until 1972, when Lantz closed his studio due to rising production costs.
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Woody Woodpecker reappeared in the Fox Kids series The New Woody Woodpecker Show, which ran on Saturday mornings from 1999 to 2002, voiced by Billy West.
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Woody Woodpecker was number 46 on TV Guide's list of the 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time in 2002 and 2003.
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In 1998 and 1999, Woody Woodpecker appeared on the nose of the Williams Formula One Team, and in 2000, he became the official team mascot of the Honda Motorcycle Racing Team.
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Woody Woodpecker shorts have been released for the first time on Blu-ray; labeled as the "Screwball Collection", the set was released on September 7,2021.
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Woody Woodpecker first appeared as a comic book character in 1942, appearing alongside Andy Panda and Oswald the Rabbit in Dell Comics' New Funnies, an anthology comic that featured a number of other Lantz characters.
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Notable creators involved with the Woody Woodpecker comic included Carl Fallberg, Paul Murry, Tony Strobl, Frank Thomas, and in the European comics, Freddy Milton.
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Woody Woodpecker starred in a short-lived comic strip, syndicated by Consolidated News Features, in the early 1950s.
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Foreign-language versions of the Woody Woodpecker comic were published in many European countries, most actively in Sweden, the Netherlands, France, and Italy .
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