Barney s voice

You're refering to Hal Smith and no,it's not him, but it's Daws Butler, the tryout of Fred and Barney in the demo reel (with June Foray as her WARNERS PREDECESSOR Bea Benadaret's role-to-be, Betty Rubble with Jane Vanderpyl as the only pilot/regular role of the four stone age adults, "Wi-i-i-i-lmaaaa"!), "Flagstones" (until "Hi and Lois" creator Mort Walker sued due to his characters having Flagston as a name.)

Hal Smith, though, DID take over Elmer Fudd for awhile at Warner Bros., though only a kind of associated comment on my part given that Mel Blanc, Bugs and Barney and others outside this thread topic, did not official play Elmer, but fellow oldtime radio Arthur Q.Bryan (1899-1959) was Elmer, but after his passing Hal Smith DID play Elmer, and even got credit in 1961's "What's My Lion", which also had Herb Vigran uncredited as narrator, also common to Flintstones-Herb's the cop on his knees wailing to the chief of Police in Season 2's "Mailman Cometh" closing a subplot and a few episodes later, the scratchy, "porcupine" voiced cop in "Kleptomaniac Caper", with credit in the originals. Incidentally, comic and impressionist Dave Barry Siegel was the voice of Elmer Fudd while Arthur Q.Bryan was still alive, in 1958's "Pre-Hysterical Hare", with Bugs Bunny (and the pre-Hoyt Curtin Capitol Records music library credited to the then-head John Seely), doing a (in my opinion) bad Elmer Fudd voice. Bryan must have been ill or already died and his later Elmers just backlogged as more of the classic Elmer Fudd voice-cartoons appeared till 1960's "From Person to Bunny", a cartoon from which a Flintstones gag in first season's "Hollyrock Here I Come" with stage fright, was lifted ("HHIC" is the one with the Phil Silvers/Bilko/"You'll Never Get Rich" type hotshot hammy sounding producer of TV).

Hal Smith then Mel Blanc when he got out of the hospital and was able to work and WB and Hanna-Barbera, in late 1961, thus enabling him to reprise Barney, did his share of Elmer Fudd voices. Hal Smith (the Otis guy rerunwatcher cites) DID get consdiered for Barney, and even filled in, during a late 1970s TV live action tribute special (one of those 20th Hanna-Barbera Productions anniversary tributes.:))

But in short, and getting back on topic, no, when Mel Blanc was injured seriously, Daws Butler filled in...sounding like his Yogi Bear character (both "Ed Norton" characters.)



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