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Tedd Pierce is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Script born on 12 august 1906
Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III (August 12, 1906 – February 19, 1972) was an American animator.
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 1941. Jones credited Pierce in his autobiography Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (1989) 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 contributed (with Bill Danch) the story of the Tom and Jerry short Tall in the Trap (1962), directed by Gene Deitch. Originally the short would have starred Sylvester the cat 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.
In his Warners career, Pierce worked with three of the three best-known Warner animation directors (Jones, McKimson and Friz Freleng). He contributed many storylines for 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, an early success for both of them) 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, however, it would follow that Pierce was generally overshadowed by his contemporaries as story writers at Warners, Warren Foster and Michael Maltese.
Pierce also got occasional voice work in the shorts: he gave voice to King Bombo in Gulliver's Travels (1939), and the villainous C. Bagley Beetle in Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941), in addition to writing on those films.
He imitated Bud Abbott in one Warner short casting Abbott and Costello as alley cats Babbit and Catstello (A Tale of Two Kitties) and two Warner shorts casting them as mice (A Tale of Two Mice and The Mouse-Merized Cat). Pierce also voiced Tom Dover in The Dover Boys, the "tall, thin" character in Wackiki Wabbit, and the French chef Louis in French Rarebit. In addition, in a few shorts containing Jones' Hubie and Bertie characters, Pierce voiced Bertie, and Maltese played Hubie. Thereafter they were voiced by the principal voice actor, Mel Blanc, and Stan Freberg, who had also voiced secondary Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies duos such as the Goofy Gophers and Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier.
Tedd Pierce's own, undisguised tenor voice was heard in coming-attractions trailers for Universal Pictures. Pierce enthusiastically narrated these previews of Universal Pictures' 1940s features starring Abbott and Costello, The Ritz Brothers, Maria Montez, Gloria Jean, and Donald O'Connor.
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Birth name Edward Stacey Pierce III
Birth 12 august 1906
Death 19 february 1972 (at 65 years)
Birth 12 august 1906
Death 19 february 1972 (at 65 years)
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 1941. Jones credited Pierce in his autobiography Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (1989) 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 contributed (with Bill Danch) the story of the Tom and Jerry short Tall in the Trap (1962), directed by Gene Deitch. Originally the short would have starred Sylvester the cat 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.
In his Warners career, Pierce worked with three of the three best-known Warner animation directors (Jones, McKimson and Friz Freleng). He contributed many storylines for 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, an early success for both of them) 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, however, it would follow that Pierce was generally overshadowed by his contemporaries as story writers at Warners, Warren Foster and Michael Maltese.
Pierce also got occasional voice work in the shorts: he gave voice to King Bombo in Gulliver's Travels (1939), and the villainous C. Bagley Beetle in Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941), in addition to writing on those films.
He imitated Bud Abbott in one Warner short casting Abbott and Costello as alley cats Babbit and Catstello (A Tale of Two Kitties) and two Warner shorts casting them as mice (A Tale of Two Mice and The Mouse-Merized Cat). Pierce also voiced Tom Dover in The Dover Boys, the "tall, thin" character in Wackiki Wabbit, and the French chef Louis in French Rarebit. In addition, in a few shorts containing Jones' Hubie and Bertie characters, Pierce voiced Bertie, and Maltese played Hubie. Thereafter they were voiced by the principal voice actor, Mel Blanc, and Stan Freberg, who had also voiced secondary Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies duos such as the Goofy Gophers and Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier.
Tedd Pierce's own, undisguised tenor voice was heard in coming-attractions trailers for Universal Pictures. Pierce enthusiastically narrated these previews of Universal Pictures' 1940s features starring Abbott and Costello, The Ritz Brothers, Maria Montez, Gloria Jean, and Donald O'Connor.
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Filmography of Tedd Pierce (109 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Bugs and Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons | Actor | Observer |
| 1988 | Daffy Duck's Quackbusters | Scriptwriter | |
| 1982 | Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Scriptwriter | |
| 1981 | The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie | Writer | |
| 1968 | What's So Bad About Feeling Good? | Writer | |
| 1964 | Rendezvous in Space | Dialogue | |
| 1964 | Freudy Cat | Scriptwriter | |
| 1964 | Hawaiian Aye Aye | Scriptwriter | |
| 1962 | Tall in the Trap | Story | |
| 1961 | Hoppy Daze | Story | |
| 1960 | From Hare to Heir | Scriptwriter | |
| 1959 | The Mouse That Jack Built | Story | |
| 1957 | Tabasco Road | Story | |
| 1957 | Mouse-Taken Identity | Scriptwriter | |
| 1956 | Stupor Duck | Story | |
| 1956 | Wideo Wabbit | Scriptwriter | |
| 1956 | The Honey-Mousers | Story | |
| 1956 | Bugs' Bonnets | Story | |
| 1956 | Broom-Stick Bunny | Story | |
| 1956 | Barbary-Coast Bunny | Story | |
| 1955 | Sahara Hare | Scriptwriter | |
| 1954 | Bride and Gloom | Story | |
| 1953 | Robot Rabbit | Scriptwriter | |
| 1953 | Plop Goes the Weasel! | Story | |
| 1952 | Hoppy-Go-Lucky | Story | |
| 1952 | Rabbit's Kin | Scriptwriter | |
| 1952 | Sock a Doodle Do | Story | |
| 1951 | Big Top Bunny | Story | |
| 1951 | French Rarebit | Actor, Story | Louie (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1951 | The Prize Pest | Story | |
| 1951 | Room and Bird | Story | |
| 1950 | Big House Bunny | Story | |
| 1950 | Mutiny on the Bunny | Story | |
| 1950 | Bunker Hill Bunny | Writer | |
| 1950 | Canary Row | Story | |
| 1950 | Hillbilly Hare | Story | |
| 1950 | Golden Yeggs | Scriptwriter | |
| 1950 | All a Bir-r-r-d | Story | |
| 1950 | Home, Tweet Home | Story | |
| 1949 | Which Is Witch | Scriptwriter | |
| 1949 | High Diving Hare | Story | |
| 1949 | Hare Do | Story | |
| 1949 | Dough for the Do-Do | Writer | |
| 1949 | Knights Must Fall | Scriptwriter | |
| 1949 | Mouse Mazurka | Scriptwriter | |
| 1949 | Bad Ol' Putty Tat | Story | |
| 1948 | Bugs Bunny Rides Again | Writer | |
| 1948 | Back Alley Oproar | Story | |
| 1948 | Buccaneer Bunny | Story | |
| 1948 | Kit for Cat | Story | |
| 1948 | Hare Splitter | Scriptwriter | |
| 1947 | Tweetie Pie | Story | |
| 1947 | A Pest in the House | Story | |
| 1947 | House Hunting Mice | Story | |
| 1947 | Slick Hare | Story | |
| 1947 | Inki at the Circus | Scriptwriter | |
| 1947 | Rabbit Transit | Story | |
| 1946 | Baseball Bugs | Actor | Announcer - First Scene (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Hair-Raising Hare | Writer | |
| 1946 | Rhapsody Rabbit | Story | |
| 1945 | Hare Conditioned | Story | |
| 1945 | Life with Feathers | Scriptwriter | |
| 1945 | A Tale of Two Mice | Actor | Babbit (voice) |
| 1945 | Trap Happy Porky | Story | |
| 1944 | Hare Force | Actor, Story | |
| 1944 | Tick Tock Tuckered | Scriptwriter | |
| 1944 | Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips | Story | |
| 1944 | Duck Soup to Nuts | Story | |
| 1943 | To Duck.... Or Not to Duck | Story | |
| 1943 | Yankee Doodle Daffy | Story | |
| 1943 | Rumors | Actor | Soldiers (voice) |
| 1943 | The Aristo-Cat | Actor, Story | Bertie (voice) |
| 1943 | Super-Rabbit | Actor | Observer (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Pigs in a Polka | Scriptwriter | |
| 1943 | Wackiki Wabbit | Actor, Story | Thin Castaway (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Tortoise Wins by a Hare | Actor | Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Flop Goes the Weasel | Scriptwriter | |
| 1942 | Case of the Missing Hare | Story | |
| 1942 | Hold the Lion, Please | Actor, Writer | Lion (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Wabbit Who Came to Supper | Scriptwriter | |
| 1942 | A Tale of Two Kitties | Actor | Babbit (voice) |
| 1942 | The Bird Came C.O.D. | Scriptwriter | |
| 1942 | Ding Dog Daddy | Actor, Writer | |
| 1942 | The Squawkin' Hawk | Scriptwriter | |
| 1942 | The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall | Actor, Writer | Tom Dover (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Mr. Bug Goes to Town | Actor, Writer | C. Bagley Beetle (voice) |
| 1940 | Elmer's Candid Camera | Scriptwriter | |
| 1939 | Gulliver's Travels | Actor, Scriptwriter | King Bombo (voice) |
| 1938 | Have You Got Any Castles? | Actor | W. C. Fields |
| 1938 | A Star Is Hatched | Actor, Story | J. Megga Phone / W.C. Fields / Movie Star Guide (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Cracked Ice | Actor | W.C. Fields pig |
| 1938 | Wholly Smoke | Actor | Nick O'Teen / Porky's Mother (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Jungle Jitters | Actor | Salesman / Queen (voice) |
| 1938 | My Little Buckeroo | Actor | Pig rider (voice) |
| 1938 | Cinderella Meets Fella | Story | |
| 1938 | The Major Lied 'Til Dawn | Actor | The Major (voice) |
| 1938 | Little Pancho Vanilla | Story | |
| 1937 | The Lyin' Mouse | Story | |
| 1937 | September in the Rain | Story | |
| 1937 | Porky's Road Race | Actor, Story | W.C. Fields (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Porky the Wrestler | Actor | Fighter (voice) |
| 1937 | Little Red Walking Hood | Actor | Wolf (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Uncle Tom's Bungalow | Actor | Narrator (voice) |
| 1937 | The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos | Actor | Tizzie Fish |
| 1936 | The Cat Came Back | Story, Script | |
| 1936 | The Village Smithy | Actor | Blacksmith (voice) |
| 1936 | Porky the Rain-Maker | Actor, Story | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Milk and Money | Actor | Track Announcer (voice / uncredited) |
| 1936 | The CooCoo Nut Grove | Actor | W.C. Fields (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Country Mouse | Actor | Announcer (voice) |