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He received screen credit for his voice work on Three Little Bops (1957), where he voiced all the characters and sang the titular song. Busy the Beaver in Lady and the Tramp (1955), and he did voice work in Susie the Little Blue Coupe and Lambert the Sheepish Lion. įreberg's work as a voice actor for Walt Disney Productions included the role of Mr. 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).

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.

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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, the Goofy Gophers Mac and Tosh, and Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier. This featured Jones' version of The Three Bears. After Rogers was killed during World War II, Freberg assumed the role of Junyer Bear in Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes cartoon What's Brewin', Bruin? (1948). Roosevelt), followed by Roughly Squeaking (1946) as Bertie and in 1947, he was heard in It's a Grand Old Nag (Charlie Horse), produced and directed by Bob Clampett for Republic Pictures The Goofy Gophers (Tosh), and One Meat Brawl (Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell).įreberg voiced the character of Junyer Bear, but the role was actually created by actor Kent Rogers in Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944). His first notable cartoon voice work was in a Warner Brothers 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.

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Thus began Freberg's professional career in entertainment, which lasted for more than 70 years, all the way up to his death. He walked in, and the agents there arranged for him to audition for Warner Brothers cartoons where he was promptly hired. As he describes in his autobiography, It Only Hurts When I Laugh, he got off the bus and found a sign that said 'talent agency'.

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He began at Warner Brothers in 1944 by getting on a bus and asking the driver to let him off 'in Hollywood'.

Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after graduating from Alhambra High School.

He married Betty Hunter in 2001.įreberg began his career doing impersonations on Cliffie Stone's radio show in 1943. He had two children from that marriage, Donna Jean and Donavan. įreberg's first wife, Donna, died in 2000. I refused to let them sell me to any cigarette company. I want to be sponsored by one person', like Benny was, by American Tobacco or State Farm Insurance, except that I wouldn't let them sell me to American Tobacco. That would mean that every three minutes I'd have to drop a commercial in. As Freberg explained to Rusty Pipes:Īfter I replaced Jack Benny in 1957, they were unable to sell me with spot announcements in the show. He was drafted in the US Army from 1945 to 1947 where he served in Special Services attached to the Medical Corps at McCornack General Hospital in Pasadena, California.įreberg's work reflected both his gentle sensitivity (despite his liberal use of biting satire and parody) and his refusal to accept alcohol and tobacco manufacturers as sponsors-an impediment to his radio career when he took over for Jack Benny on CBS radio.

Freberg was of Swedish and Irish descent.

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George and the Dragonet', Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, his role on the television series Time for Beany, multiple characters in the Looney Tunes such as Pete Puma and Bertie, and a number of classic television commercials.įreberg was born Stanley Friberg on Augin Pasadena, California, the son of Evelyn Dorothy (née Conner), a housewife, and Victor Richard Friberg (later Freberg), a Baptist minister. Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg Aug– April 7, 2015) was an American actor, author, comedian, musician, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director.