Dallas McKennon Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Dallas McKennon Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

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.
Dallas McKennon Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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