musicradio77
05-11-2005, 08:39 PM
Sorry, we're late but we have a birthday last week which is Yosemite Sam. He is 60 today. Gilligan Fantaic was posted on the other forum called Termite Terrace Trading Post says "May 5th marked the 60th birthday of Yosemite Sam". Matthew Hunter recalls on his Too Looney website:
Small but dangerous, the loud cowboy Yosemite Sam was director Friz Freleng's signature character, and surprisingly versatile in his roles. He's loud, cranky and stubborn. Originally conceived as a cowboy outlaw in the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Hare Trigger"(1945), Sam would go on to star in many more Bugs cartoons and two non-Bugs outings, including "Along Came Daffy"(1947), in which he and his twin brother attempt to eat salesman Daffy Duck during a winter famine. Sam wasn't always cast as a cowboy or even in the West at all, rather, he popped up in Bugs Bunny's way all over the world and throughout history. Sam has appeared as a viking, a prospector, a pilot, a Swiss mountainclimber, a pirate, a marooned sailor, a Confederate soldier, a spaceman, a Medieval knight, the lord of a castle, and a royal cook, among other aliases. One might venture to call him the John Wayne character of cartoons...no matter what role he plays, he's still Yosemite Sam. From 1945 until 1964, Friz Freleng was the only director to ever use the character, supposedly because of Sam's similarity to Friz himself.
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Small but dangerous, the loud cowboy Yosemite Sam was director Friz Freleng's signature character, and surprisingly versatile in his roles. He's loud, cranky and stubborn. Originally conceived as a cowboy outlaw in the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Hare Trigger"(1945), Sam would go on to star in many more Bugs cartoons and two non-Bugs outings, including "Along Came Daffy"(1947), in which he and his twin brother attempt to eat salesman Daffy Duck during a winter famine. Sam wasn't always cast as a cowboy or even in the West at all, rather, he popped up in Bugs Bunny's way all over the world and throughout history. Sam has appeared as a viking, a prospector, a pilot, a Swiss mountainclimber, a pirate, a marooned sailor, a Confederate soldier, a spaceman, a Medieval knight, the lord of a castle, and a royal cook, among other aliases. One might venture to call him the John Wayne character of cartoons...no matter what role he plays, he's still Yosemite Sam. From 1945 until 1964, Friz Freleng was the only director to ever use the character, supposedly because of Sam's similarity to Friz himself.
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