I had forgotten until today that Mr. Howell (Jim Backus) had supplied the voice for this character in a bugs bunny cartoon.

yeah, Jim Backus' carrer off of radio and movies is thanks to playing Smokey the Genie. After A-Lad-In his Lamp UPA picked him up as Mr Magoo. He was well known before as Hubert Updike on the Alan Young radio show but he became more famous.

I did not realize that. I guess I always assumed it was Mel Blanc that provided the voice.

I did not realize that. I guess I always assumed it was Mel Blanc that provided the voice.

one of the few not to be by Mel Blanc. Stan Freeberg did a good amount of others and Arthur Q Bryan did Elmer Fudd but for the male voices it was just the three of them. This was the only Looney Tune for Jim Backus.

yeah, the face of the genie somewhat resembles Mr. Backus...his lips and nose.

He ws also the voice of the wolf inanother Bugs fractured fiary tale, "Widnblown Hare', also late 40s, directed by Robert McKimson,who directe dmany others including the one in question.

Freberg was:
Pete Puma ("Rabbit's Kin",11/15/52)
Elmo Mouse ("A Hick, Slick, & A Chick", 3/18/48, NOT 12/27/48 as if often erroenously reffered)
Junior Bear
Chetser the dog of "Spike and..." ("Tree for Two", 10/18/52, & "Dr.Jekyll's Hyde",1953)
One of the Goofy Gophers (Mel is the other)
The THree Little Bops--at least two of them, and occaisoanlly will be ehard as Hubie or Bertie in post-1947 titles with thsoe mice, (others had done them incl. Blanc)

yeah, Jim Backus' carrer off of radio and movies is thanks to playing Smokey the Genie. After A-Lad-In his Lamp UPA picked him up as Mr Magoo. He was well known before as Hubert Updike on the Alan Young radio show but he became more famous.

Well, actually, one kinda fed into the other.

Well, actually, one kinda fed into the other.
yeah I read that.

....also had its originations on "THE MEL BLANC SHOW" [CBS Radio, 1946-'47], where he portrayed a exceedingly vain character named "Hartley Benson"--who almost sounded like "Hubert Updike", only with more vanity attached. And Hans Conried also appeared on the same show in a regular role (see the connection here?).

Stan Freberg, by the way, also voiced the "dumb dog" in the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "FOXY BY PROXY" (1952) {"I done a good thing!! I CAUGHT A TRAIN!!
All by myself, I caught a train!! I did...?"}.

....also had its originations on "THE MEL BLANC SHOW" [CBS Radio, 1946-'47], where he portrayed a exceedingly vain character named "Hartley Benson"--who almost sounded like "Hubert Updike", only with more vanity attached. And Hans Conried also appeared on the same show in a regular role (see the connection here?).

Stan Freberg, by the way, also voiced the "dumb dog" in the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "FOXY BY PROXY" (1952) {"I done a good thing!! I CAUGHT A TRAIN!!
All by myself, I caught a train!! I did...?"}.

I did not know that about the Mel Blanc Show (a lot of that could be you never hear radio shows anywhere)

Stan Freeberg is also Tosh and Juneyar Bear and Bertie the mouse and one of the Hillbillies in Hillbilly Hare.

I did not know that about the Mel Blanc Show (a lot of that could be you never hear radio shows anywhere)

Stan Freeberg is also Tosh and Juneyar Bear and Bertie the mouse and one of the Hillbillies in Hillbilly Hare.

No, he wasn't. (Regarding the last.) He was Tosh, Junyer, Bertie, and others, but curously NOT one of the hillbillies!!
Also The Hick Mouse in a Hick, A Slick, & A Chick, [WB, 1948] as a country boy mouse [the cartoon that Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke had a clip from] and Pete Puma, and even some HB cartoons.

Jim Backus was the wolf in "WInd Blown Hare" in the beginning, also a Bugs Bunny fairy spoof though it's Mel Blanc who's usually heard as the character.
A now-little-known radio character actor named J.T.Smith, not to be confused with J.T.Walsh ("Pleasantville"), and Mel Blanc, supplied the voices for those two hillbillies (J.Smith also was that Chow Hound": who kept demanding "da GRAAAY-vee!"(1951)).

No, he wasn't. (Regarding the last.) He was Tosh, Junyer, Bertie, and others, but curously NOT one of the hillbillies!!

A now-little-known radio character actor named J.T.Smith, not to be confused with J.T.Walsh ("Pleasantville"), and Mel Blanc, supplied the voices for those two hillbillies (J.Smith also was that Chow Hound": who kept demanding "da GRAAAY-vee!"(1951)).
Oh i loved the Chow Hound. He was so hilarious. I am a huge Looney Toons fan, can u all tell? LOL

Those were the days. Coming home from school and watching those cartoons.

No, he wasn't. (Regarding the last.) He was Tosh, Junyer, Bertie, and others, but curously NOT one of the hillbillies!!

A now-little-known radio character actor named J.T.Smith, not to be confused with J.T.Walsh ("Pleasantville"), and Mel Blanc, supplied the voices for those two hillbillies (J.Smith also was that Chow Hound": who kept demanding "da GRAAAY-vee!"(1951)).

Are you sure about that? I was just going off of the IMDB, it could be wrong though.

Hillbilly Hare (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042555/) (1950) (voice) (uncredited) .... Punkinhead Martin
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292677/

...John T. Smith, and he worked on a LOT of Chuck Jones' Warner cartoons between 1949 and 1953 {i.e. the 'bully foreman' in "Homeless Hare" ('49), 'The Crusher' in "Bunny Hugged" (1951), the 'Evil Scientist' in "Water, Water, Every Hare" ('52), the 'Sergeant' in "Forward March Hare" ('53)...and you get the idea}.

And I don't believe Stan Freberg was EITHER hillbilly in "Hillbilly Hare". Smith obviously was....