Robert C. Bruce

Robert Cameron Bruce Jr. (October 6, 1914 – August 24, 2003) was an American voice actor, and the son of Robert Cameron Bruce (1887–1948) who was a cinematographer and documentary producer. He was the narrator for a number of Warner Bros. cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s. The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series' had occasional entries which were driven not by one of their stable of stars such as Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, but by individual short sketches, usually filled with sight gags and word-play. Later he was a writer and producer of industrial motion pictures based in Minnesota.

Robert C. Bruce
Born
Robert Cameron Bruce Jr.

(1914-10-06)October 6, 1914
White Salmon, Washington, U.S.
DiedAugust 24, 2003(2003-08-24) (aged 88)
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Resting placeSunset Memorial Park Cemetery
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1930s–1960s

Animation voiceover work

List of Private Snafu shorts voiced by Robert C. Bruce
  • Booby Traps (1944)
  • Outpost (1944)
  • Target Snafu (1944)
  • A Few Quick Facts: Fear (1945)
  • It's Murder, She Says... (1945)
  • Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy (1946)

Legacy

Bruce never got a screen credit, but his voice was recognizable, and he is mentioned in the commentary for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection.

He introduces the cartoon What's Cookin' Doc? (1944) which begins with a filmed segment about Oscar night, and transitions into a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

In the last scene of the cartoon Punch Trunk (1953), Bruce is "Mr. Pratt", a TV station announcer who introduces the audience to a distinguished science lecturer (voiced by Mel Blanc) named "Dr. Robert Bruce Cameron"—a play on Bruce's own name.

In addition to the "Crazy Cruise" types of cartoons, he provides the voice of the narrator for the 1956 cartoon Bugs' Bonnets, an animated exposition on the "well-known psychological fact that people's behavior is strongly affected by the way they dress".

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gollark: If all your smart™ things use an encrypted communication channel to a reasonably secured server, and have some kind of privilege system so that a random thermometer can't override door lock controls or something, it's probably fine for practical purposes.
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See also

References
  1. A Day at the Zoo (1939), YouTube
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