Robert C. Bruce

Robert C. Bruce

Born: October 6, 1914
Died: August 24, 2003
in White Salmon, Washington, USA
Robert C. Bruce, Jr. was a voice actor, and the son of Robert C. Bruce who was also an actor. He was the narrator for a number of Warner Bros. cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s. The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series' had occasional entries which were driven not by one of their stable of stars such as Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, but by individual short sketches, usually filled with sight gags and word-play.

Movies for Robert C. Bruce...

Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Title: Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Character: (archive footage)
Released: August 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl was released in conjunction with Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire None of these shorts have been released on disc before, and Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948) is a welcome addition to any cartoon library. Daffy sets out to win the money a gloomy millionaire is offering to anyone who can make him laugh--and succeeds in spite of himself. But many of these cartoons are, simply, duds. "This Is a Life?" (1955), "People Are Bunny" (1959), and "Person to Bunny" (1960) spoof largely forgotten TV shows. How many viewers under 65 will recognize caricatures of Art Linkletter and Edward R. Murrow? The films pitting Daffy against Bugs play like weak remakes of Jones's "Rabbit Fire" trilogy or Friz Freleng's "Show Biz Bugs"--"Person to Bunny" even repeats some of Daffy's tap dance to "Jeepers Creepers" in "Show Biz." The very late "Suppressed Duck" (1965) is painfully unfunny. Once again, some of the films have been inexplicably cropped to simulate a widescreen format.
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Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Title: Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Character: Narrator (voice)(archive footage)
Released: August 10, 2010
Type: Movie
This must-have animation collection "Looney Tunes Super Stars: Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl" (2010) is filled with shorts that have been released on disc before and will delight any Looney Tunes fans. Episodes include "Tick Tock Tuckered," "Nasty Quacks," Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948), "Wise Quackers," "The Prize Pest," "Design for Leaving," "Stork Naked," "This is a Life?" (1955), "Dime to Retire," "Ducking the Devil," "People Are Bunny" (1959), "Person to Bunny" (1960), "Daffy's Inn Trouble," "The Iceman Ducketh" and "Suppressed Duck" (1965).
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Bonanza Bunny
Title: Bonanza Bunny
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1959
Type: Movie
Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.
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Dog Tales
Title: Dog Tales
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Man's best friend is the subject of a series of blackout gags, climaxing with the bogus heroism of a dog who travels across the country for an unexpected purpose.
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Bugs' Bonnets
Title: Bugs' Bonnets
Character: Narrator
Released: January 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A passing truck spills a variety of hats, causing Elmer and Bugs to change personalities in rapid succession to fit the headgear they wind up wearing.
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The Hole Idea
Title: The Hole Idea
Character: Narrator
Released: April 16, 1955
Type: Movie
A scientist invents the portable hole, only to have a thief steal his samples to go on a crime spree.
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Gone Batty
Title: Gone Batty
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Bobo the Elephant is baseball team mascot for the lean and meek Sweetwater Shnooks, all of whom are rendered unconscious by their opponents, the husky and brutal Greenville Goons. The Shnooks' manager, rather than forfeit the game, decides to bring in Bobo to play every position - and he does rather well!
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Feline Frame-Up
Title: Feline Frame-Up
Character: Marc Anthony's master (voice)
Released: February 13, 1954
Type: Movie
After Claude frames Marc Antony, making it look like the bulldog ate the kitty, Marc must try various methods of getting back at Claude from outside the yard.
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Punch Trunk
Title: Punch Trunk
Character: Narrator, Psychiatrist, Radio Announcer
Released: December 19, 1953
Type: Movie
A tiny elephant emerges from a banana boat and wanders about town, causing an uproar among the populace. Sightings are attributed variously to mass hysteria, insanity and dipsomania.
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Orange Blossoms for Violet
Title: Orange Blossoms for Violet
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1952
Type: Movie
In this short, with the sound effects and voices of the Warner Bros animation shorts, but with black and white footage of monkeys and other animals, we see a struggle between two boy monkeys and the girl they love.
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Swallow the Leader
Title: Swallow the Leader
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Migrating swallows are making their annual spring return to San Juan Capistrano, and a hungry cat awaits them.
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Bugs Bunny Rides Again
Title: Bugs Bunny Rides Again
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1948
Type: Movie
In the Western town of Rising Gorge, Bugs faces off against Yosemite Sam, "the roughest, toughest, he-man stuffest hombre who's ever crossed the Rio Grande."
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Crowing Pains
Title: Crowing Pains
Character: Barnyard Dog (voice)
Released: July 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Henery Hawk hides in an egg to catch his first chicken, while Foghorn Leghorn tells him that Sylvester is the real chicken and the farm dog joins in the fun.
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Hobo Bobo
Title: Hobo Bobo
Character: Narrator / New Yorkers (voice)
Released: May 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Little Bobo the Elephant decides to leave a jungle, where he is assigned to the thankless task of moving logs with his trunk, for a glamorous life in a circus in America. On the advice of a minah bird, Bobo paints himself pink to gain access to a ship bound for the U.S., because nobody on the ship will admit to seeing a pink elephant much less act to remove the presumed hallucination. After Bobo arrives in America, a steet-cleaner washes his pink color away, and people are now willing to acknowledge seeing the little elephant. Bobo is arrested by the police and chained for trial by judge, and the judge sentences him to life - in a circus, where he is bat "boy" for the big top baseball team, and laments that he's carrying logs (i.e. bats) yet again!
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Fair and Worm-er
Title: Fair and Worm-er
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 27, 1946
Type: Movie
One long chase: worm chases apple; bird chases worm; cat chases bird; dog chases cat; dogcatcher chases dog; dogcatcher's wife chases dogcatcher; mouse chases dogcatcher's wife. With occasional interruptions by a skunk.
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Of Thee I Sting
Title: Of Thee I Sting
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A mosquito army trains for, then goes on, an attack mission.
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Bacall to Arms
Title: Bacall to Arms
Character: Newsreel Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Movie patrons watch and interact with a variety of short subjects and a spoof of the film "To Have and Have Not."
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Daffy Doodles
Title: Daffy Doodles
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Porky Pig is hot on the trail of a vandal painting mustaches on signs everywhere (Daffy Duck).
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Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy
Title: Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy
Character: Narrator
Released: March 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Private Snafu (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) presents his brother Tarfu (Things Are Really Fucked Up) who was a carrier pigeon keeper and has joined the Navy
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Nasty Quacks
Title: Nasty Quacks
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A doting father gives a cute little duckling to his little daughter. That duckling grows up to become Daffy Duck, who soon develops quite a night life, which he loudly explains at breakfast, in the process of eating everything in sight. When the exasperated father's attempts at violently removing Daffy fail, he tries one final measure to drive Daffy away...
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Wagon Heels
Title: Wagon Heels
Character: Narrator
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Porky leads a wagon train into "Injun Joe Territory," and finally comes up against the fearsome Superchief. But Sloppy Moe, a survivor of a previous Injun Joe attack, knows something about him he won't tell... until the very end.
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It's Murder She Says...
Title: It's Murder She Says...
Character: Narrator
Released: May 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A haggard mosquito complains how tough life is with the military taking the proper precautions against malaria infection.
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A Few Quick Facts: Fear
Title: A Few Quick Facts: Fear
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Private Snafu learns about fear
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Target Snafu
Title: Target Snafu
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 15, 1944
Type: Movie
An armada of malaria-laden mosquitoes seeks human targets and finds Private Snafu, who fails to protect himself adequately against their onslaught.
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Plane Daffy
Title: Plane Daffy
Character: Narrator
Released: September 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.
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Buckaroo Bugs
Title: Buckaroo Bugs
Character: Narrator / Villagers (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1944
Type: Movie
Red Hot Ryder is sent to catch the Masked Marauder (Bugs Bunny) who is terrorizing a small Western town.
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Outpost
Title: Outpost
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Snafu has an object lesson on the value of complete and accurate regular reports when he discovers and reports evidence of the enemy's presence at his assigned area.
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Russian Rhapsody
Title: Russian Rhapsody
Character: Radio Announcer (voice)
Released: May 20, 1944
Type: Movie
As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.
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A Lecture on Camouflage
Title: A Lecture on Camouflage
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Using Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage.
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Booby Traps
Title: Booby Traps
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Pvt. Snafu thinks he's too smart to get caught by an enemy booby trap, but he soon finds that the traps are alluring and that he is every bit the booby.
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What's Cookin' Doc?
Title: What's Cookin' Doc?
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1944
Type: Movie
At the Academy Awards ceremony, Bugs Bunny tries to convince the audience that he deserves the Oscar. Opens with live action scenes of Hollywood.
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Fin'n Catty
Title: Fin'n Catty
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
"As everyone knows," the narrator begins, "goldfish must have water... and cats hate water." And so it goes.
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Bravo, Mr. Strauss
Title: Bravo, Mr. Strauss
Character: Narrator
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
As the goose-stepping "Screwball Army" pillages Europe, a statue of Mr. Strauss (symbol to defeat Hitler) comes to life with violin in hand. Like a Pied Piper, Strauss leads the nuts and bolts to drown in the Danube River.
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Point Rationing of Foods
Title: Point Rationing of Foods
Character: Narrator
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Animated documentary short film demonstrating the reasons and methods of the point system of wartime food rationing.
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Fox Pop
Title: Fox Pop
Character: Radio Announcer (voice)
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Hearing that silver foxes are all the rage in high society, a fox paints himself silver and gets himself trapped, finding out too late that it's only his fur anyone is interested in.
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Saps in Chaps
Title: Saps in Chaps
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Sagebrush site gags depicting wild west wackiness.
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Crazy Cruise
Title: Crazy Cruise
Character: Narrator
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A collection of various gags in the form of a travelogue.
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Who's Who in the Zoo
Title: Who's Who in the Zoo
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A wacky travelogue takes us to the zoo, where Porky Pig is the keeper and goofy animals provide the basis for a series of black-out gags.
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Rookie Revue
Title: Rookie Revue
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Random gags around military life, set on an army base. A bugler uses a jukebox to play reveille. In formation, one private has a great deal of trouble remembering what comes after "3"; after he gets it, he decides not to go for the $32 question. In the mess hall, the machine gunners machine gun their food while the bombers catch falling biscuits. The infantry marches for miles - past a "next time, take the train" billboard.
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Robinson Crusoe Jr.
Title: Robinson Crusoe Jr.
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Stranded on an island after his ship was wrecked by a hurricane, Porky meets a friendly African Native. They build a house, and Porky begins to explore the island. On his way we see various sight gags.
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The Bug Parade
Title: The Bug Parade
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1941
Type: Movie
A spot gag cartoon presenting amusing facts about bugs.
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We, the Animals - Squeak!
Title: We, the Animals - Squeak!
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Porky hosts a radio program, where animals tell their stories. The guest star is Kansas City Kitty, the best mouser in the country. She tells the story of her life, including her marriage to Tom Collins, the birth of Little Patrick (not necessarily in that order), and the turning point of her life. The mice have plotted out a major operation like gangsters. They sneak out and kidnap Patrick and hold him hostage...
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Aviation Vacation
Title: Aviation Vacation
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
An animated around-the-world trip by airplane.
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Salt Water Daffy
Title: Salt Water Daffy
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A narrator tells how military recruits are trained on land and sea. Men get a physical, undergo basic training, do duties on board ship for gunnery practice, clean the decks, and prepare for battle.
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Meet John Doughboy
Title: Meet John Doughboy
Character: Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Porky introduces a newsreel of wartime spot gags, including a spoof of the RKO Pictures logo, and caricatures of Jack Benny and Rochester.
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Farm Frolics
Title: Farm Frolics
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.
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Porky's Snooze Reel
Title: Porky's Snooze Reel
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Porky Pig narrates a very strange newsreel.
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Wacky Wildlife
Title: Wacky Wildlife
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A series of typical Avery spot gags set around wild animals. A dainty deer drinks very loudly and rudely from a lake. A pack rat swaps an egg and an acorn, then back again ("monotonous, isn't it?"). A flock of ducks lands; a hunter fires; all fly away, except one with an American flag on its side. A termite fells a huge tree. A cowboy rides across the plains well, no; his horse is just slapping itself with the front hooves. A coyote calls to its mate: "Hey, Mabel, come on out!" A camel contradicts the narrator, saying he's really thirsty. A wild dog: because of the lumbermen.
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Ceiling Hero
Title: Ceiling Hero
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A series of blackout gags parodying aviation and aviation films. Gags include a parchutist whose parachute reads "Good to the last drop", jokes about LA's expanding city limits, and a satire of test pilot and their bravery.
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The Chewin' Bruin
Title: The Chewin' Bruin
Character: Various (voice)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
A bear hunter tells Porky the tale of a hunt 30 years ago: a bear got a taste of his chewing tobacco and chased him down to get it; the hunter took the bear on with his bare hands rather than lose the tobacco. Or at least, that's the way he told the story.
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A Gander at Mother Goose
Title: A Gander at Mother Goose
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A series of gags based on Mother Goose stories.
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The Hardship of Miles Standish
Title: The Hardship of Miles Standish
Character: Radio Announcer / Grandpa (voice)
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
In this version of "The Courtship of Miles Standish", Elmer Fudd is messanger John Alden, sent to give Miles' love letter to Pricilla. While delivering the message, however, her house is attacked by Indians, and John is the only one who can save her.
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The Bear's Tale
Title: The Bear's Tale
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
The Three Bears meets Little Red Riding Hood, told in the style of Tex Avery.
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Pilgrim Porky
Title: Pilgrim Porky
Character: Narrator
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The Pilgrims, led by captain Porky Pig, set sail from Plymouth for America. We get a series of ocean sailing blackout gags, including a running bit between our narrator and the cook, looking for a fish suitable for dinner, a singing trio interrupted by seasickness, flying fish (in airplanes). Then, The Rains Came. A collision with an iceberg is narrowly averted. Land is sighted. The pilgrims are welcomed by Chief Sitting Bull.
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Africa Squeaks
Title: Africa Squeaks
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Porky Pig goes on a safari in Africa, and runs into an assortment of crazy animals, wacky natives and Kay Kyser giving dance lessons in the middle of the jungle.
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The Film Fan
Title: The Film Fan
Character: Coming Attractions Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Porky Pig is on his way to the store to pick up some groceries for his mother when he walks by a sign saying that the local movie theater is having a "kids admitted free" day. The excited Porky rushes in and views a series of spoofs of newsreels, movie trailers, feature films, and even the Lone Ranger!
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Fresh Fish
Title: Fresh Fish
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns. Among the running gags, a two-headed fish who keeps asking for directions to Mr. Ripley and a professor in a diving sphere looking for a rare wim-wam whistling shark.
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Sioux Me
Title: Sioux Me
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
When there is a drought on an Indian reservation, everyone is in desperate need of water so that they can quench their thirst, their crops can grow, the animals will provide them food, etc. But rather than having to wait for the rain to come the old-fashioned way, a weather pill pertaining to that is used to bring instant showers.
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Dangerous Dan McFoo
Title: Dangerous Dan McFoo
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1939
Type: Movie
An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After the fight goes on a while with no conclusion, the narrator tosses a couple of guns, the lights go out, and Dan is shot or is he?
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A Day at the Zoo
Title: A Day at the Zoo
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.
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Rover's Rival
Title: Rover's Rival
Character: Rover (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Porky reads a book of new dog tricks; unfortunately, his dog, Rover, is old. A puppy comes by and taunts him.