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Eric Bauza, a voice actor and the modern voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and other Looney Tunes characters, died at 46.
His family announced the news on Sunday in an Instagram post. “Eric Bauza, Emmy Award-winning voice actor and the modern voice of iconic Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, along with dozens of other beloved cartoon characters, has passed away suddenly. More details to come,” the post read.
The date and cause of death have not been disclosed. According to press documents, Bauza was scheduled to attend the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s “The Cat in the Hat” on Sunday afternoon to support “Daffy Season,” a short film shown before the feature.
In the Looney Tunes film “Coyote vs. Acme,” released earlier this year, Bauza voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Porky Pig, Road Runner and Charlie the Dog among other roles. Most of those characters originated with the late voice actor Mel Blanc.
Bauza also voiced Looney Tunes characters in “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” where he played Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Elmer Fudd and Marvin the Martian. In the series “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” he voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
Bauza was born on Dec. 7, 1979, in Toronto and lived in Los Angeles in recent years. According to his biography on SBV Talent, the agency that represented him, he began his animation career as a character designer at several Hollywood production studios.
He received Daytime Emmy, Children’s & Family Emmy and Annie Award nominations for his work as the title character in “The Adventures of Puss in Boots,” Fozzie in “Muppet Babies,” and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in “Looney Tunes Cartoons.” He most recently voiced roles in DreamWorks Animation’s film “Forgotten Island.”
His television credits include “Unikitty,” “Archibald’s Next Big Thing,” “The Rocketeer,” “Ballmastrz: 9009,” “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Turtles,” “Star vs. The Forces of Evil,” “Breadwinners,” “Uncle Grandpa,” “Atomic Puppet,” “The Powerpuff Girls,” “The Fairly OddParents”, “Ultimate Spider-Man”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, “Guardians of the Galaxy”, “Transformers: Robots in Disguise,” “Sanjay and Craig,” and “Mighty Magiswords.”
On film, he voiced characters in “The Book of Life” and “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.” He also played Woody Woodpecker in Universal’s animated film “Woody Woodpecker.”
According to his biography, Bauza also voiced characters in commercials, including Lucky the Leprechaun for Lucky Charms cereal, Trix Rabbit for Trix cereal and Marvin the Martian for Nike. He also appeared in the Walmart commercial “Famous Visitors.”
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