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Tedd Pierce

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Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III (12 August 1906 - 19 February 1972) was an American writer and voice actor. Pierce spent the majority of his career as a writer for the Warner Bros. "Termite Terrace" animation studio, working alongside fellow luminaries such as Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Pierce also worked as a writer at Fleischer Studios from 1939 to 1942. Jones credited Pierce in his 1989 autobiography Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist as being the inspiration for the character Pepé Le Pew, the haplessly romantic French skunk due to Pierce's self-proclamation that he was a ladies' man.

In early credits, his name was spelled "T-E-D". He was said to have added an extra "d" to his name as a way of "lampooning" puppeteer Bil Baird when he dropped one of the "L"s from his first name.

He co-wrote (with Bill Danch) the story of the 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon "Tall in the Trap", directed by Gene Deitch. Originally, the cartoon would have starred Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales, and would have been directed by Robert McKimson. However, McKimson disapproved of the storyline, and decided not to use it. Instead, Pierce sold it to Danch and Deitch, who were desperately looking for suitable storylines for Tom and Jerry.

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In his career at Warner Bros., Pierce worked with Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, and Friz Freleng. He contributed many notable storylines for all three of them, including Freleng's "Hare Do" (1949), "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (1949), "Bunker Hill Bunny" (1950) and "Big House Bunny" (1950); Jones' "Hare Tonic" (1945) and "Broom-Stick Bunny" (1956); and McKimson's "Hillbilly Hare" (1950), "Lovelorn Leghorn" (1951) and "Cat-Tails for Two" (1953), the last of which was Speedy Gonzales' first appearance. Because much of Pierce's Termite Terrace career was spent with McKimson's unit, it would follow that Pierce was generally overshadowed by his contemporaries as screenwriters at Warner: Warren Foster and Michael Maltese.

1930s[]

1940-1946[]

1947-1951[]

1952-1956[]

1957-1964[]

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He imitated Bud Abbott in three Warner cartoons casting Abbott and Costello as alley cats Babbit and Catstello. Pierce also voiced the "tall, thin" character in "Wackiki Wabbit" (1943, which he wrote for Jones), and Chef Louis in "French Rarebit" (1951, which he wrote for McKimson). In addition, in a few cartoons containing Jones' Hubie and Bertie, Bertie's voice was Pierce.

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  1. ↑ https://cartoonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1947-nov471.jpg
  2. ↑ cartoonlogic
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