Don Messick

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Biography

Don Messick was a talented voice-over actor who did numerous cartoon characters and will be forever known as the man that gave Scooby Doo…more

Born

9/7/1926, Buffalo, New York, USA

Died

10/24/1997

Birth Name

Donald Messick

Gender

Male

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    • Don: I never had mike fright. I was always fond of performing at the microphone and in front of a live audience, too.
    • Don: In the earlier days of limited animation, because of that process, Joe (Barbara) and Bill (Hanna) wanted to depend heavily on the voice of the character to bring it to life because the animation was so restricted. That's where Daws (Butler) and I shined, I guess you might say. That's the reason that those characters developed with such realism and warmth. They have a genuine charm to them despite the limited backgrounds and so forth. The concentration was on the characters, their spoken personalities.
    • Don: Ventriloquism got me started doing different voices... I never did impersonations. I just developed my own characters, having discovered the versatility of my vocal cords.
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