McKimson's Beaky is again back to his idiotic self, this time under the tutelage of his adoptive father, a sparrow who is trying to teach Beaky how to survive in the wild. Bob McKimson also featured the character in a film that year, "Strife with Father". Freleng made the buzzard smarter, pitting him against a dim-witted lion named Leo. The character was eventually brought back in the 1950 Friz Freleng short " The Lion's Busy", now voiced by Mel Blanc. He also appeared in several issues of Dell Comics' Looney Tunes series of comic books, usually paired with another minor player, Henery Hawk.Ĭlampett left the studio in 1946, ending Beaky's career for a time. featured Beaky in much of the Looney Tunes merchandising of the time. Rogers reprised his role as the character's voice for the film, but he died in World War II after finishing all his dialogue. Clampett brought the character back in the 1945 film " The Bashful Buzzard", a cartoon that closely mirrors its predecessor, only this time featuring Beaky's hapless hunting without Bugs as an opponent.
Beaky's voice, modeled after ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's character Mortimer Snerd (and similar to that of Cecil Turtle), is provided by voice actor Kent Rogers. The cartoon's plot revolves around the hapless attempts of the brainless buzzard, here called "Killer", to catch Bugs Bunny for his domineering mother back at the nest. The character first appeared in the 1942 cartoon " Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid", directed by Bob Clampett. Beaky bears a perpetual goofy grin, and his eyes look eternally half-asleep.īeaky was based on Mortimer Snerd, the popular dimwitted dummy of famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, with Beaky's original voice actor Kent Rogers even managing to mimic Snerd's voice. His neck and head are featherless, and his beak is large and yellow or orange, depending on the cartoon. His neck is long and thin, bending halfway at an enormous adam's apple. Beaky is a lanky buzzard (although he more closely resembles a vulture or condor) with black body feathers and a white tuft around his throat.
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