Eddie Deezen lending his voice to animated feature films, including the voice of Donnie Dodo in "Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird" and Snipes the Magpie in Don Bluth's 1991 film "Rock-A-Doodle". According to a 2011 interview, Deezen unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of the title character in Robert Zemeckis's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", losing out to comedian Charles Fleischer. He was also considered for the role of Judge Doom in the film along with several other actors that were considered but lost the role to Christopher Lloyd. Deezen eventually found full-time voice work on television in the mid-1990s, playing recurring characters
Eddie Valiant of Toontown and founder of the Acme Corporation. When Acme is murdered and Roger becomes the prime suspect, Valiant teams up with Roger to find the culprit. Maroon is subsequently killed, and Valiant discovers that Doom is responsible for not only these two deaths, but Teddy's as well. He defeats Doom at Acme's warehouse, finds Acme's lost will that bequeaths Toontown to the Toons, and abandons his prejudice against them. In the graphic novel of the film published in 1989 by Marvel Comics, Valiant is the narrator of the story, telling the film through his eyes and in the style