Stan Freberg

Stan Freberg
Background information
Born	Stanley Friberg August 7, 1926 Pasadena, California, U.S.
Died	April 7, 2015 (aged 88) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alternate names	Stanley Friberg Stanley Freberg Stan Friberg Stanley Victor Freberg
Occupation	Author, actor, comedian, musician, radio personality, puppeteer, advertising creative director
Years active	1943–2014
Spouse	Donna Freberg (m. 1959; died 2000) Betty Hunter Freberg (m. 2001; his death 2015)

Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg; August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American author, actor, comedian, musician, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose career began in 1943. He remained active in the industry into his late 80s, more than 7 decades after entering it.

His best-known works include "St. George and the Dragonet", Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, his role on the television series Time for Beany, and a number of classic television commercials.

His first notable cartoon voice work was in a Warner Bros. cartoon called For He's a Jolly Good Fala, which was recorded but never filmed (due to the death of Fala's owner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt), followed by Roughly Squeaking as Bertie; and in 1947; The Goofy Gophers (Tosh), and One Meat Brawl (Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell). He often found himself paired with Mel Blanc while at Warner Bros., where the two men performed such pairs as the mice Hubie and Bertie, Mac and Tosh and Spike and Chester. In 1950, he was the voice of Friz Freleng's "Dumb Dog" in Foxy By Proxy, who meets up with a disguised Bugs Bunny wearing a fox suit. He was the voice of Pete Puma in the 1952 cartoon Rabbit's Kin, in which he did an impression of an early Frank Fontaine characterization (which later became Fontaine's "Crazy Guggenheim" character).

Filmography

Film

• Roughly Squeaking (1946) - Bertie
• One Meat Brawl (1947) - Grover Groundhog (some lines), Walter Winchell
• The Goofy Gophers (1947) - Tosh
• Birth of a Notion (1947) - Dr. Lorre
• Hobo Bobo (1947) - Bobo the Elephant
• House Hunting Mice (1947) - Bertie, House of Tomorrow Announcer
• Two Gophers from Texas (1948) - Tosh
• What's Brewin', Bruin? (1948) - Junyer Bear, Narrator
• Mouse Wreckers (1949) - Bertie
• The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949) - Junyer Bear, Narrator
• Bear Feat (1949) - Junyer Bear, Narrator
• A Ham in a Role (1949) - Tosh
• The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (1950) - Bertie
• A Bone for A Bone (1951) - Tosh
• Early to Bet (1951) - The Gambling Bug
• Cheese Chasers (1951) - Bertie
• A Bear for Punishment (1951) - Junyer Bear
• Foxy By Proxy (1952) - Dumb Dog
• Hoppy-Go-Lucky (1952) - Benny
• Tree for Two (1952) - Chester
• Rabbit's Kin (1952) - Pete Puma
• Cat-Tails for Two (1953) - Benny
• I Gopher You (1954) - Tosh
• Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954) - Chester
• By Word Of Mouse (1954) - Willie
• Pests for Guests (1955) - Tosh
• Lumber Jerks (1955) - Tosh
• Heir-Conditioned (1955) - Alley Cats
• Three Little Bops (1957) - Narrator, Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf
• Gopher Broke (1958) - Tosh
• The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979) - Man
• The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) - Big Bad Wolf, Three Little Pigs
• Chariots of Fur (1994) (writer)
• Another Froggy Evening (1995) (writer)
• Pullet Surprise (1997) - Pete Puma
• Little Go Beep (2000) - Cage E. Coyote
• Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000) - Pete Puma, Additional Voices
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) - Junyer Bear

Television

• Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1991) - Pete Puma, Junyer Bear
• Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster (1991) - Junyer Bear
• Taz-Mania (1992) - Network Vice President
• Freakazoid! (1995) - Mo-Ron
• The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1998) - Pete Puma
• Duck Dodgers (2003) - Martian Gopher King

Gallery

Roles

Junior Bear
(Looney Tunes franchise)

Papa Bear
(Looney Tunes franchise)

Bertie
(Looney Tunes franchise)

Pete Puma
(Looney Tunes franchise)

External Links

• Stan Freberg at Wikipedia

• Stan Freberg at the Internet Movie Database