Dallas Raymond McKennon (July 19, 1919 â€" July 14, 2009), sometimes
credited as Dal McKennon, was an American actor and voice actor, in a
career lasting over 50 years.Born near La Grande, Oregon, McKennon's
best-known voice roles were that of Gumby for Art Clokey, Archie
Andrews in several different Archie series for Filmation, and the
primary voice of Buzz Buzzard in the Woody Woodpecker cartoons. In the
early 1950s, McKennon created and hosted his own daily kids TV
wraparound show, Space Funnies/Capt. Jet, which was seen weekday
mornings on KNXT (KCBS) TV Ch. 2 in Los Angeles. Space Funnies was the
first Los Angeles-based kids show to air reruns of The Little Rascals
and Laurel & Hardy shorts. He was also the primary voice actor for the
1960 cartoon series Q.T. Hush. McKennon was also the voice of Hardy
Boys sidekick Chet Morton in the 1969 animated mystery series.McKennon
also sang, and provided many character voices, mainly for Disney. His
distinctive voice can be heard in movies such as Lady and the Tramp,
Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Mary Poppins, and
Bedknobs and Broomsticks. He also provided the voices for many Disney
Attractions such as the famous Big Thunder Mountain Railroad safety
spiel, a pair of laughing hyenas in the Africa Room portion of It's a
Small World, Benjamin Franklin's voice in Epcot's The American
Adventure, EPCOT's WorldKey information kiosks and the voice of Zeke
in the Country Bear Jamboree.McKennon's best-known live action role is
that of the innkeeper, Cincinnatus, in the 1964-70 Daniel Boone TV
series starring Fess Parker. He also had a bit part as a diner cook in
the Alfred Hitchcock film classic The Birds and as a gas station
attendant in the Elvis Presley film Clambake. His final movie was
Gumby: The Movie, under the pseudonym of Charles Farrington, voicing
Gumby, Fatbuckle, Lucky Claybert and Professor Kapp.
credited as Dal McKennon, was an American actor and voice actor, in a
career lasting over 50 years.Born near La Grande, Oregon, McKennon's
best-known voice roles were that of Gumby for Art Clokey, Archie
Andrews in several different Archie series for Filmation, and the
primary voice of Buzz Buzzard in the Woody Woodpecker cartoons. In the
early 1950s, McKennon created and hosted his own daily kids TV
wraparound show, Space Funnies/Capt. Jet, which was seen weekday
mornings on KNXT (KCBS) TV Ch. 2 in Los Angeles. Space Funnies was the
first Los Angeles-based kids show to air reruns of The Little Rascals
and Laurel & Hardy shorts. He was also the primary voice actor for the
1960 cartoon series Q.T. Hush. McKennon was also the voice of Hardy
Boys sidekick Chet Morton in the 1969 animated mystery series.McKennon
also sang, and provided many character voices, mainly for Disney. His
distinctive voice can be heard in movies such as Lady and the Tramp,
Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Mary Poppins, and
Bedknobs and Broomsticks. He also provided the voices for many Disney
Attractions such as the famous Big Thunder Mountain Railroad safety
spiel, a pair of laughing hyenas in the Africa Room portion of It's a
Small World, Benjamin Franklin's voice in Epcot's The American
Adventure, EPCOT's WorldKey information kiosks and the voice of Zeke
in the Country Bear Jamboree.McKennon's best-known live action role is
that of the innkeeper, Cincinnatus, in the 1964-70 Daniel Boone TV
series starring Fess Parker. He also had a bit part as a diner cook in
the Alfred Hitchcock film classic The Birds and as a gas station
attendant in the Elvis Presley film Clambake. His final movie was
Gumby: The Movie, under the pseudonym of Charles Farrington, voicing
Gumby, Fatbuckle, Lucky Claybert and Professor Kapp.
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