Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker | |
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Woody Woodpecker's character | |
First appearance | Knock Knock (November 25, 1940) |
Created by | Walter Lantz Ben Hardaway |
Designed by | Alex Lovy (1940–1943) Emery Hawkins and Art Heinemann (1944–1947) Dick Lundy and Fred Moore (1947–1949) Laverne Harding (1950 onwards) |
Voiced by |
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Years Active | 1940–present |
Awards | Hollywood Walk of Fame[1] |
Spinoffs | Appearances |
In-universe information | |
Species | Pileated woodpecker |
Gender | Male |
Family |
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Significant other | Winnie Woodpecker |
Woody Woodpecker is an animated character that appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio and Universal Animation Studio and distributed by Universal Pictures[2][3] since 1940. Woody's last Woody Woodpecker was produced by Walter Lantz in 1972.[4]
Woody, an anthropomorphic woodpecker, was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben "Bugs" Hardaway, who had previously laid the groundwork for two other screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s. Woody's character and design evolved over the years, from an insane bird with an unusually garish design to a more refined-looking and acting character in the vein of the later Chuck Jones version of Bugs Bunny.[5] Woody was originally voiced by prolific voice actor Mel Blanc, who was succeeded in the shorts by Danny Webb, Kent Rogers, Dick Nelson, Ben Hardaway, and, finally, Grace Stafford (wife of Walter Lantz).[6]
Woody Woodpecker cartoons were first broadcast on television in 1957 under the title The Woody Woodpecker Show, which featured Lantz cartoons bookended by new footage of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz. Lantz produced theatrical cartoons longer than most of his contemporaries, and Woody Woodpecker remained a staple of Universal's release schedule until 1972 when Lantz finally closed down his studio. The character has been revived since then for special productions and occasions, as well as for The New Woody Woodpecker Show, a Saturday-morning cartoon television series featuring prolific voice actor Billy West as Woody that aired from 1999 to 2002.[7][8] In 2017, a live-action/CGI hybrid feature film, Woody Woodpecker, was released theatrically in Latin America, while released direct-to-video in other territories. It was followed by a new series of shorts released via YouTube beginning in 2018. In 2024, a new film, Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp, was released on Netflix.
Woody has a motion picture star on the
Origin
The inspiration for the character allegedly came during producer
In the short Dumb Like a Fox (1964), a museum offers a 25-dollar reward to anyone who captures a Campephilus principalis, which is Woody Woodpecker himself.[13][14]
History
Early years
Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the short
The Woody of Knock Knock was designed by animator
Audiences reacted well to Knock Knock, and Lantz realized he had finally hit upon a star to replace the waning
Animator
Woody's wild days were numbered, however. In 1946, Lantz hired
In 1947, contract renewal negotiations between Lantz and Universal (now Universal-International) fell through, and Lantz began distributing his cartoons through United Artists.[17]: 161 The UA-distributed Lantz cartoons featured higher-quality animation and the influence of Dick Lundy (the films' budgets remained the same).[17]: 172–175 Former Disney animators such as Fred Moore and Ed Love began working at Lantz and assisted Lundy in adding touches of the Disney style to Woody's cartoons. Despite the Disney style added for the later cartoons, Woody's cartoons still try to maintain a good dose of slapstick and madcap humor from the pre-Lundy cartoons.
"The Woody Woodpecker Song"
In 1947, Woody got his theme song when musicians George Tibbles and Ramey Idriss wrote "The Woody Woodpecker Song", making ample use of the character's famous laugh. Kay Kyser's 1948 recording of the song, with Harry Babbitt's laugh interrupting vocalist Gloria Wood, became one of the biggest hit singles of 1948.[18][19] Other artists did covers, including Woody's original voice actor, Mel Blanc. Lantz first used "The Woody Woodpecker Song" in Wet Blanket Policy (1948), and it became the first and only song from an animated short subject to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1948, but it lost out to "Buttons and Bows".[20] Lantz soon adopted the song as Woody's theme music.[citation needed]
"The Woody Woodpecker Song" and the Woody Woodpecker cartoons extensively used Woody's famous laugh, upsetting the man who created it, Mel Blanc. He first used the laughter, in a different recording, for the seminal pre-Bugs Bunny character in 1938's Porky's Hare Hunt. Although Blanc had only recorded three shorts as the voice of Woody, his laugh had been recorded as a stock sound effect and used in every subsequent Woody Woodpecker short up until this point. Blanc sued Lantz and lost, but Lantz settled out of court when Blanc filed an appeal. Although Lantz stopped using Blanc's Woody Woodpecker laugh as a stock effect in the early 1950s, Blanc's voice was still heard saying "Guess who?" at the beginning of every cartoon for the duration of the Woody Woodpecker series.
Financial impasse/hiatus
Financial problems at United Artists during the aftermath of the
Walter Lantz Productions remained closed for a full calendar year. During this time, Walter Lantz and his wife, actress Grace Stafford, toured Europe to spend money impounded there after World War II and also to entertain the European Universal exchanges still distributing the Universal era Lantz cartoons.[17]: 179–182 By keeping the studio closed while the Universal and United Artists Woody Woodpecker cartoons were still in distribution,[21] Lantz was able to amass enough income to pay off the studio's debts and upgrade the studio, after which time the studio finally reopened with a reduced staff.[17]: 179–182
Later films
The revived Lantz studio's first new project was an animated segment of the feature film
Beginning with Destination Moon, Woody's voice was assumed by Grace Stafford. According to the Lantzes, Stafford slipped a recording of herself into a stack of audition tapes, and her husband chose her without knowing her identity.
Lantz signed again with Universal (now Universal-International) in 1950 and began production on two entries that director Dick Lundy and storymen Ben Hardaway and
Nine more Lantz-directed Woody cartoons followed before
By 1955,
In addition to Stafford providing Woody's voice, which returned the cartoon to being more dialogue-driven again, voice talents during this period were generally split between
Woody in the television era
As Lantz was struggling financially, Woody's longevity was secured when he made the jump to television in The Woody Woodpecker Show on ABC. The half-hour program consisted of three theatrical Woody shorts followed by a brief look at cartoon creation hosted by Lantz. It ran from 1957 to 1958 then entered syndication until 1966. NBC revived the show in 1970 and 1976. In addition, the woodpecker was no longer dishing out abuse to his foils, but was instead on the receiving end. The first significant short to feature Woody as a serious, put-upon character was 1961's Franken-Stymied. Woody's popularity had been based on his manic craziness, but by 1961, this had all but been eliminated in favor of a more serious Woody, a straight man trying to do good. This was due in part to Woody's large presence on television, which meant Lantz had to meet the stringent rules against violence for children's television. Though production continued until 1972, the cartoons were a definite notch lower than in the 1940s and 1950s.
Woody appeared in new theatrical shorts until 1972, when Lantz closed his studio due to rising production costs. His cartoons returned to syndication in the late 1970s. Lantz sold his library of Woody shorts to
Woody Woodpecker reappeared in the
In 2018, a new series of Woody Woodpecker cartoons began streaming exclusively for YouTube, simply titled Woody Woodpecker.[22]
In August 2023, MeTV acquired the broadcast rights to Walter Lantz cartoons from 1934 to 1972 to air The Woody Woodpecker Show on Saturday morning on September 2, marking the return on TV after 25 years.
Reception
The Woody Woodpecker Show was named the 88th best animated series by IGN.[23]
Legacy
Walter Lantz and movie pioneer George Pal were good friends. Woody Woodpecker cameos in nearly every film that Pal produced or directed; for example, during the 1966 sequence in The Time Machine (1960), a little girl drops her Woody Woodpecker doll as she goes into an air raid shelter. In Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975), Grace Stafford cameos, carrying a Woody Woodpecker doll.
Obvious references to "The Woody Woodpecker Song" can be found in the work of at least two noted jazz innovators: specifically,
In 1983-1984, Catapult musicians Aart Mol, Cees Bergman, Elmer Veerhoff, Erwin van Prehn and Geertjan Hessing (under the pseudonym "Adams & Fleisner") wrote and produced "Woodpeckers from Space" by VideoKids, a synth-pop cover of "The Woody Woodpecker Song".[29] Released on 4 September 1984, the song became a number 1 hit in Spain and Norway. The idea for the song began when the children of Gert van den Bosch (co-founder of Boni Records) asked him if he could produce a record based on Woody Woodpecker, whom they were big fans of.[30][31] The Woody laugh used in the song was first heard in "Let's Break" by Master Genius in 1983, another Cat Music project.[32][31] The band's animated mascot, a "spacepecker" named Tico Tac, was created and used in place of Woody in order to avoid a lawsuit from Universal.[33][34] The band lasted from 1984 to 1988.
The Baltimora song "Woody Boogie", released in 1985, notably features a synthesizer replaying Woody Woodpecker's laugh, which is incorporated into the chorus as well as other parts of the song.
Woody was number 46 on TV Guide's list of the 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time in 2002 and 2003. He came in at number 25 on Animal Planet's list of The 50 Greatest Movie Animals in 2004. The character has been referenced and spoofed on many later television programs, among them The Simpsons, American Dad!, South Park, The Fairly OddParents, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Robot Chicken, Three's Company, and Flash Toons.
Like
In Brazil, the character is a hugely popular and iconic cartoon character.[22]
Home media
A handful of non-comprehensive Woody Woodpecker VHS tapes were issued by Universal in the 1980s and 1990s, usually including
In 2007,
Woody Woodpecker shorts have been released for the first time on Blu-ray; labeled as the "Screwball Collection", the set was released on September 7, 2021.[37]
DVD/Blu-ray release name | Cartoon # | Release date |
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The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection (DVD) | 45 Woody cartoons, 30 others |
July 24, 2007 |
The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection: Volume 2 (DVD) | April 15, 2008 | |
Woody Woodpecker Favorites (DVD) | 15 Woody cartoons, 5 others |
March 10, 2009 |
The Woody Woodpecker Screwball Collection (Blu-ray) | 25 Woody cartoons | September 7, 2021 |
Voice actors
- United States
- Mel Blanc (cartoons: 1940–1941; archive recordings: 1942–1972; Capitol Records: 1948–1955)[16][38]
- Danny Webb (1941; Pantry Panic)[38]
- Kent Rogers (1941–1943, gulping in Wild and Woody! (archive recording))[38]
- Dick Nelson (1943, 1954; Ration Board, conscience in Under the Counter Spy)[38][39]
- Ben Hardaway (1944–1949)[38]
- Lee Sweetland (1944–1947; singing voice in
- Theodore von Eltz (1947; Sally in Hollywoodland [unaired radio pilot])[43]
- Harry Babbitt (1948; "The Woody Woodpecker Song")[18][44]
- Danny Kaye (1948; "The Woody Woodpecker Song" cover)[44]
- Grace Stafford (1950-1991, 1995; Destination Moon, cartoons: 1950–1972; The Woody Woodpecker Show, commercials, 51st Academy Awards, Walter, Woody and the World of Animation, Let's All Recycle, Pepsi commercial (archive recording))[38][45][46][47][48][49]
- Gladys Holland (1953; imitating Ga Ga Gazoo in Belle Boys)[39]
- Dallas McKennon (1954, 1964, 1966; growling in Wrestling Wrecks, Indian voice disguise in Saddle-Sore Woody, monster sounds in Monster of Ceremonies)[39]
- Hal Smith (1957; Woody Woodpecker Presents)[50]
- Daws Butler (1963-1964, 1969, 1972; Indian voice disguise in Greedy Gabby Gator, monster sound in Spook-a-Nanny, yelling in Little Skeeter, imitating Floyd Farkle in Pecking Holes in Poles)[39]
- Benny Rubin (1963; with the Mad Professor's voice in Science Friction)[39]
- Cherry Davis (1988; Who Framed Roger Rabbit)[51]
- Dave Spafford (1991; 63rd Academy Awards)[45]
- Jeff Bennett (1996; Animaniacs (as "Woodpeckerman"))[52]
- Billy West (1998–2002; From the Earth to the Moon, The New Woody Woodpecker Show)[53]
- Eric Kelso (2001; Universal Studios Japan, Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure)[54]
- Dan Castellaneta (2008; The Simpsons (as a parody named "Robby Robin"))
- Seth Green (2014; Robot Chicken)[55]
- Eric Bauza (2017–present; Woody Woodpecker, Woody Woodpecker, MeTV promotion, Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp)[56]
- Other countries
- Katsue Miwa and Kumiko Watanabe (Japan)
- Olney Cazarré (Brazil) 1960s / 1980s
- Garcia Júnior (Brazil) 1970s
- Marco Antônio Costa (Brazil) 1990s / 2000s
- Sérgio Stern (Brazil) 2017–present
- Natalia Gurzo (Russia) 1996–1998/2000s
- Jorge Arvizu (Mexico)
- Stavros Mavridis (Greece) 2005–2007
- Dimitris Marizas (Greece) 2007–2009
- Dieter Kursawe (Germany)
- Mića Tatić (Yugoslavia/Serbia)
Blanc originated the voice, in a characterization similar to his Daffy Duck, minus the lisp, with the recording slightly sped up to give a higher-pitched tone to the voice. He stated that the laugh originated from a type of laugh he used to do at school and he just added the pecking sounds to the laugh.[57] That practice continued with other voice artists.[citation needed]
Filmography
Theatrical cartoons
TV series
Series number | Title | Broadcast run | Original channel | Total # episodes | Total # seasons |
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1 | The Woody Woodpecker Show | 1957–1997 | ABC, NBC, Syndication | 113 episodes | 5 |
2 | The New Woody Woodpecker Show | 1999–2002 | Fox Kids | 53 episodes | 3 |
3 | Woody Woodpecker | 2018–2022 | YouTube | 30 episodes |
Public Service
- Let's All Recycle with Woody Woodpecker (1991 – PSA Video)
Other appearances
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, cameo)
- Kids for Character (1996)
Film
In the early 2010s,
A live-action/CGI hybrid film based on Woody Woodpecker, directed by Alex Zamm and starring Timothy Omundson and Brazilian actress Thaila Ayala, was released theatrically in Brazil on October 5, 2017, and was scheduled for release on April 1, 2018, worldwide. The film had a straight-to-video release in the United States on February 6, 2018.[61] A sequel titled Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp was announced in 2021 and released on Netflix on April 12, 2024.
Comics
Woody was the star of a number of comic book series published in the U.S. and around the world. The main title, Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker, ran from 1952 to 1983.
Woody first appeared as a comic book character in 1942, appearing alongside
Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker became an independent comic book (starting with issue #16 to reflect the earlier appearances in Four Color) in Dec. 1952-Jan. 1953.
Woody's niece and nephew Splinter and Knothead first made their appearances in the comics,[66] later appearing in the cartoons.[62]
Notable creators involved with the Woody Woodpecker comic included Carl Fallberg, Paul Murry, Tony Strobl, Frank Thomas, and in the European comics, Freddy Milton.[62]
Woody also starred in a short-lived comic strip, syndicated by Consolidated News Features, in the early 1950s.[62]
Foreign-language versions of the Woody Woodpecker comic were published in many European countries, most actively in Sweden ("Hacke Hackspett"), the Netherlands, France, and Italy ("Picchiarello").
Video games
Several Woody Woodpecker video games were released for
- Woody Woodpecker #1, Woody Woodpecker #2, and Woody Woodpecker #3 (1994) for the 3DO
- Férias Frustradas do Pica-Pau (translation: Woody Woodpecker Frustrated Vacation) (1996) for Mega Drive and Master System (made by Tectoy, sold only in Brazil)
- Woody Woodpecker Racing (2000) for PlayStation, Windows, and GBC
- Woody Woodpecker: Escape from Buzz Buzzard Park (2001) for GBC, Windows, and PS2
- Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure (2001) for GameCube
- Woody Woodpecker in Crazy Castle 5(2002) for GBA
- Woody Woodpecker: Wacky Challenge (2010) for mobile phone
- Woody Woodpecker In Waterfools (2010) for mobile phone
- Woody Woodpecker (App) (2012) for iOS
Mattel purchased the rights for a Woody Woodpecker Intellivision game, and Grace Stafford recorded new dialog for the game, but was not completed.[67]
Maruhon has released a series of pachinko games in Japan.
Woody Woodpecker appears as a park mascot in a Universal Studios themed Minecraft DLC map [2]
See also
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External links
- Official Universal Pictures Woody Woodpecker site
- Woody Woodpecker's channel on YouTube
- Woody Woodpecker at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
- Woody Woodpecker profile at the Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia
- Watch Woody Woodpecker in the public domain Pantry Panic (1941)
- Woody Woodpecker on the Internet Movie Database