#Fog horn leghorn series
Dog) engaging in one-upmanship through a series of pranks. Many of the gags involved Foghorn and a canine nemesis (formally known as The Barnyard Dog within Warner today, though on early model sheets his name is given as George P. All of the motion picture Foghorn Leghorn cartoons were directed by Robert McKimson, and the rooster vies with the Tasmanian Devil as the most popular character associated with the director. He first appeared in 1946 in a Henery Hawk film titled Walky Talky Hawky. The first half of his name is a joke about him being loud and obnoxious, while the second half refers to a breed of chicken (a white leghorn). The voice has similarities to that of another Mel Blanc voice: Yosemite Sam (a strictly Friz Freleng character).įoghorn Leghorn is a large, white adult Leghorn rooster with a stereotypically Southern accent, a " good ol' boy" speaking style, and a penchant for mischief.
A leghorn is a breed of chicken, and foghorn describes the character's loud, overbearing voice.Īccording to Leonard Maltin the character's voice was also patterned after a hard-of-hearing West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff, on a radio program called Blue Monday Jamboree. The rooster adopted many of Claghorn's catch phrases, such as "That's a joke, ah say, that's a joke, son." Delmar had based the character of Claghorn upon a Texas rancher who was fond of saying this. The character of Foghorn Leghorn was directly inspired by the popular character of Senator Claghorn, a blustering Southern politician played by Kenny Delmar who was a regular character on the Fred Allen radio show.
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