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Fred Flintstone physically resembles both the first voice actor who played him, Alan Reed, and Jackie Gleason, whose series, The Honeymooners, inspired The Flintstones. [12] The voice of Barney Rubble was provided by voice actor Mel Blanc, except for five episodes during the second season (the first, second, fifth, sixth, and ninth); Hanna ...
Vander Pyl was the voice of Wilma Flintstone, her best-known character, in the original Flintstones series. She told an interviewer in 1995 that she received $250 per episode for making The Flintstones, and in 1966, when the series ended, she rushed to accept $15,000 in lieu of residual payments from syndication.
Reed's other voice roles for Hanna-Barbera was Touché Turtle's sidekick, Dum Dum. Radio playwright and director Norman Corwin cast Reed as Santa Claus in the 1969 KCET television reading of his 1938 play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. In television commercials Reed was the voice over for J.J. Keebler, a creation of the Leo Burnett Agency. [12]
Fred Flintstone is the main character of the animated sitcom The Flintstones, which aired during prime-time on ABC during the original series' run from 1960 to 1966. [16] Fred is the husband of Wilma Flintstone and father of Pebbles Flintstone and together the family live in their homely cave in the town of Bedrock.
Jean Vander Pyl was the original voice artist of Wilma and played the role until her death in 1999, [18] after which Tress MacNeille took over as Wilma's voice. In The Flintstone Kids Wilma was voiced by Julie McWhirter Dees and Elizabeth Lyn Frasier at different points.
EXCLUSIVE: Fox is moving forward with The Flintstones spinoff series Bedrock. Elizabeth Banks, who has been shepherding the project as exec producer, will lead the voice cast of the series ...
Stephen Root should yabba-dabbo-do! just fine as the voice of Fred in Bedrock, Fox’s in-the-works follow-up to The Flintstones. Amy Sedaris, meanwhile, is set to voice Wilma in the prospective ...
Henry Corden (born Henry Cohen; January 6, 1920 – May 19, 2005) was a Canadian-born American actor, best known for assuming the voice of Fred Flintstone after the death of Alan Reed in 1977. [1]