RIP Joe Alasky

[Samurai8472]

Daffy and Plucky Duck are gone

http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/02/03/joe-alaskey-r-p/

Another great talent has been wrested away from us: Emmy-winning Voice Actor Joe Alaskey died earlier this evening. He was 63 and the cause was cancer.

Joe was an on-camera impressionist and comic actor but he achieved his greatest fame doing voices for animated cartoons, including the role of Grandpa Lou Pickles on*Rugrats*(following the late David Doyle) and many of the major Warner Brothers characters, especially Daffy Duck. Joe won his Emmy in 2004 for his portrayal of Daffy on the series,*Duck Dodgers.

Joe was born in Troy, New York and like many impressionists, learned at any early age that one could overcome great shyness by becoming someone else. One of his best was Jackie Gleason and as he got older, he could not only sound like the man they called The Great One but look like him, as well. When Gleason's voice needed to be replicated to fix the audio on the "lost"*Honeymoonersepisodes, Joe was the man.

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[Random_Spock]

Damn. So sad . May he rest in peace.

 

[tomalak301]

Oh man, so many memories of Daffy and Plucky Duck.

RIP.

 

[publiusr]

More voices silenced...

 

[Marc]

An article on Alaskey's passing from the Toronto Star.

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight...y-was-a-living-walking-breathing-cartoon.html