![]() ![]() In July 1990, he was appointed an official licensed voice of Warner Bros' Looney Tunes characters for Australia, following the death of Mel Blanc in 1989, and since then he did Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester and the rest for countless animated TV commercials, live shows and promotions for Warner Bros. Scott became internationally famous for his expert "matching" of cartoon characters. ![]() Across Australia he can be heard on some fifty radio stations, skewering the reputations of media and political types in How Green Was My Cactus. In the case of Yoram Gross' productions, Scott began working for Gross in 1984 and usually provided all of the male character voices. He also made many appearances on TV shows as a comic impressionist, including Hey Hey It's Saturday and The Midday Show, and has provided voices for various Australian animations, including Yoram Gross's Dot feature films, Blinky Bill (he also sang the original version of the theme song for the first season), Tabaluga, Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown and Flipper and Lopaka. In 1974, Scott began doing either impersonations or original character voices in many anonymous radio and TV commercials, and was promoted at Sydney clubs as "the Voice of 1000 Commercials". Hanna gave him a letter of recommendation when he was retrenched from the H-B office, and his name was such a credible one that it got Scott an instant agent, and his voice-over career began. He got the gig when he brought in some letters that he had received from Daws Butler (voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, etc.) in December 1970. In October 1972, just after leaving school, Scott was hired by William Hanna, the head of Hanna-Barbera, which had established a large animation studio in Sydney, Australia. He began developing his ability to impersonate voices in high school, doing cartoon characters (the first of which being Mr. Keith Scott (born 28 October 1953) is an Australian voice actor, comedian, impressionist and animation historian.Īt a young age, Scott was always enchanted by the mimics and impressionists on The Ed Sullivan Show. ![]()
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