He did work steadily, appearing in dozens of films over the years, in such successful releases as Samson and Delilah two Bob Hope/ Bing Crosby Road to. In the 1940 Charley Chase short South of the Boudoir, he speaks in his normal voice, but at one point slips into his Fudd voice while coming on to Chase's wife. īryan's live-action work remained largely in uncredited cameo roles, usually employing the Fudd persona, or minor supporting roles in B-movies (like the apoplectic newspaper editor in the Bela Lugosi thriller The Devil Bat). Films īryan first became involved with the film industry when he moved to Hollywood in 1936 to become a scenario writer for Paramount Pictures. In the mid-1940s, he had the role of Duke on Forever Ernest. Levinson on radio's Richard Diamond, Private Detective (from September 6, 1950, to June 29, 1951). Bryan starred as Major Hoople (from June 22, 1942, to April 26, 1943) in The Charlotte Greenwood Show. In the early 1940s, Bryan played Waymond Wadcliffe on the Al Pearce & His Gang program on CBS.
ELMER FUDD VOICE SERIES
His work on the series (in Bryan's natural voice) so impressed Quinn and Leslie, that Bryan was added to the cast of their main show, Fibber McGee and Molly, in 1943.
ELMER FUDD VOICE PLUS
The Gildersleeve character, played by Harold Peary, became series broadcasting's first successful spin-off hit that plus the onset of World War II (which cost Fibber McGee & Molly their Mayor La Trivia, when Gale Gordon went into the Coast Guard in early 1942, and "The Old Timer" Bill Thompson was drafted almost a year later) nabbed nearly every other remaining male voice.īryan was first hired for the new Great Gildersleeve series, to play the part of Cousin Octavia's secretary/assistant, Lucius Llewellyn (using the Elmer Fudd voice), and later one of Gildersleeve's cronies, Floyd Munson, the barber. Although his first forays into that medium were accompanied by instructions that he use the Fudd voice, Bryan soon came to the attention of Don Quinn and Phil Leslie, the production and writing team responsible for Fibber McGee and Molly and their supporting characters, two of whom spun off into their own radio hits, The Great Gildersleeve and Beulah. īryan's work in animation did not go unnoticed by radio producers. Bryan started voicing Elmer in 1940 in Elmer's Candid Camera and voiced the character all the way until his death. In 1938–1940, he was a regular on The Grouch Club, which aired on the CBS Pacific network and was featured in some short-subject films made by the group. In October 1931, he began working as an announcer at WCAU in Philadelphia, and in 1933 he moved to Philadelphia's WIP By 1934, he was heard on WHN in New York. Contemporary radio listings in a daily newspaper indicate that he was still at WOR as late as September 13, 1931. In 1929, Bryan was an announcer at WOR radio in New Jersey. He started as a singer in 1926 on WGBS and he continued as a tenor soloist on WEAF in 1928.
He sang tenor with the Seiberling Singers and the Jeddo Highlanders on NBC radio. In 1918, he began working as an insurance clerk at the Mutual Life Insurance Company.
ELMER FUDD VOICE PROFESSIONAL
He sang in a number of churches in the New York City area and had plans to be a professional singer.
Bryan was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on May 8, 1899. Gamble on the radio comedy Fibber McGee and Molly and for creating the voice of the Warner Brothers cartoon character Elmer Fudd. He is best remembered for his longtime recurring role as well-spoken, wisecracking Dr. Arthur Quirk Bryan (– November 30, 1959) was an American actor and radio personality.
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