Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Though a similar character debuted in the WB cartoon "Porky's Hare Hunt" (1938) and appeared in a few subsequent shorts, the definitive character of Bugs is widely credited to have made his debut in director Tex Avery's Oscar-nominated film "A Wild Hare" (1940). Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray
Bugs Bunny: Superstar of Bugs Bunny, claiming that he used Clark Gable's carrot-eating scene in "It Happened One Night" as inspiration for the character. (Although he never made the claim in "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" itself, Clampett further took credit for drawing the model sheet for the first Porky Pig cartoon "I Haven't Got a Hat" (1935), even though it was actually drawn by Friz Freleng.) Subsequently, Chuck Jones pointedly left out Clampett's name in the 1979 compilation film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" when Bugs discusses his "fathers" (i.e. Jones and other Warner's directors). Although Chuck Jones opted to not contribute to "Bugs