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- His roles within the Super Friends universe include his portrayal of Doctor Sivana in two episodes of the Legends of the Superheroes and the voice of the Prankster in the Superman episode Triple-Play.
- Howard Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American comic actor and director.
- Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director, best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show. He was the voice of Grandpa Jetson on The Jetsons, and Flem on Cow and Chicken.
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- Howard Morris (September 4, 1919 - May 21, 2005) was an actor and director who did the first voice for Gopher in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. When he retired, Michael Gough took over.
- Howard "Howie" Morris (September 4, 1919 - May 21, 2005) was a Jewish American comic actor and director the voice of The Hamburglar in The Adventures of Ronald McDonald: McTreasure Island as well as the appearances in commercials prior to that. He would also provide the voice for Mayor McCheese in commercials.
- Howard Morris was an American comic actor, voice actor, and director who did the first voice for Gopher in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. When he retired, Michael Gough took over. He also voiced Maltese de Sade in the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode; "Le Purrfect Crime". And played Dr. Zidell in the Touchstone Pictures film Splash.
- Morris was born in the Bronx, New York, the only child of Hugo and Elsie Morris. His father was an executive of the U.S. Rubber Company until he lost his job during the Great Depression. Morris, after his father death, graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was involved in school plays and playing the drums for a band that specialized in weddings and bar mitzvah, receiving a scholarship from New York University. He dropped out of the university, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II, first as an infantryman who saw action in such places as Guadalcanal and The Philippines, in the Pacific Theater, and later, after the war, when he was a first sergeant, he was a member of an entertainment unit, where he remet an old friend, Carl Reiner. After leaving the army, the two w
- Howard Morris also had an extensive career as a cartoon voice actor. He can be heard in the Oscar-winning short film Munro, as Beetle Bailey for Paramount's Famous Studios, as the Gopher in Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" films, in Filmation's "The Archie Show" (as Jughead Jones) and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and as Wade Duck in Film Roman's "Garfield & Friends". He appeared in several Hanna-Barbera series, including "Loopy De Loop", "Peter Potamus", "The Atom Ant Show" (as Atom Ant), "The Flintstones", "Magilla Gorilla", "Scooby-Doo", "The Jetsons", "Cow and Chicken" (as Flem) and in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. Notably, on an episode of Klasky-Csupo's "Duckman", Howard Morris voiced a character named Ernest T. Glob. In advertising, he was the voice of Quantas Air Lines' Koala Bear and of the H
- Howard "Howie" Morris (September 4, 1919 - May 21, 2005) was an American comic actor, voice actor and director. In television, he is most famous for his work on Your Show of Shows (which also starred Imogene Coca), as well as portraying Ernest T. Bass in The Andy Griffith Show. In movies, he appeared in Mel Brooks' High Anxiety, The History of the World, Part I, and Life Stinks. He was also in Boys' Night Out, The Nutty Professor, Splash, and The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.
- Beginning in 1962, Morris played a variety of voices in many Hanna-Barbera series, including The Jetsons, as Jet Screamer, who sang the "Eep opp ork ah ah!" song (said to be Morris' first work for Hanna-Barbera), and The Flintstones. He was the original voice of Atom Ant, and provided the voice of Mr. Peebles and Mushmouse in the Magilla Gorilla series, teaming up again with Allan Melvin, who performed the voice for Magilla. In another series, Morris was heard as the voice of Breezly Bruin, which was similar in tone to the Bill Scott vocalization of Bullwinkle.
- Morris' best known on-camera role was deranged rock-throwing hillbilly Ernest T. Bass in five episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, and he became a notable director in TV and occasionally in movies. In 1967, he was one of the directors approached to helm Jim Henson's TV movie concept Moki, about an androgynous man mistaken for a woman. Morris's response to Bernie Brillstein was a polite refusal: "This guy Henson's obviously got a nutty visual mind, [but] this story scares the bejesus out of me. It's not exactly dirty—it just ain't quite clean... the guy is very talented and it's a funny idea, but I guess I'm just old fashioned."
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