Robert C. Bruce

Acting

Robert C. Bruce

Born 1914-10-06 · White Salmon, Washington, USA

Robert C. Bruce, Jr. was a voice actor, and the son of Robert C. Bruce who was also an actor. 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.

Acting credits

Hobo Bobo poster
6.2

Little Bobo the Elephant decides to leave a jungle, where he is assigned to the thankless task of moving logs with his trunk, for a glamorous life in a circus in America. On the advice of a minah bird, Bobo paints himself pink to gain access to a ship bound for the U.S., because nobody on the ship will admit to seeing a pink elephant much less act to remove the presumed hallucination. After Bobo arrives in America, a steet-cleaner washes his pink color away, and people are now willing to acknowledge seeing the little elephant. Bobo is arrested by the police and chained for trial by judge, and the judge sentences him to life - in a circus, where he is bat "boy" for the big top baseball team, and laments that he's carrying logs (i.e. bats) yet again!

Hobo Bobo

1947

Wagon Heels poster
6.8

Porky leads a wagon train into "Injun Joe Territory," and finally comes up against the fearsome Superchief. But Sloppy Moe, a survivor of a previous Injun Joe attack, knows something about him he won't tell... until the very end.

Wagon Heels

1945

Bonanza Bunny poster
7.3

Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.

Bonanza Bunny

1959

Pilgrim Porky poster
6.3

The Pilgrims, led by captain Porky Pig, set sail from Plymouth for America. We get a series of ocean sailing blackout gags, including a running bit between our narrator and the cook, looking for a fish suitable for dinner, a singing trio interrupted by seasickness, flying fish (in airplanes). Then, The Rains Came. A collision with an iceberg is narrowly averted. Land is sighted. The pilgrims are welcomed by Chief Sitting Bull.

Pilgrim Porky

1940

Booby Traps poster
6.3

Pvt. Snafu thinks he's too smart to get caught by an enemy booby trap, but he soon finds that the traps are alluring and that he is every bit the booby.

Booby Traps

1944

Point Rationing of Foods poster
6.0

Animated documentary short film demonstrating the reasons and methods of the point system of wartime food rationing.

Point Rationing of Foods

1943

Outpost poster
5.6

Snafu has an object lesson on the value of complete and accurate regular reports when he discovers and reports evidence of the enemy's presence at his assigned area.

Outpost

1944

Fox Pop poster
5.8

Hearing that silver foxes are all the rage in high society, a fox paints himself silver and gets himself trapped, finding out too late that it's only his fur anyone is interested in.

Fox Pop

1942

A Lecture on Camouflage poster
5.3

Using Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage.

A Lecture on Camouflage

1944

Nasty Quacks poster
7.2

A doting father gives a cute little duckling to his little daughter. That duckling grows up to become Daffy Duck, who soon develops quite a night life, which he loudly explains at breakfast, in the process of eating everything in sight. When the exasperated father's attempts at violently removing Daffy fail, he tries one final measure to drive Daffy away...

Nasty Quacks

1945

Sioux Me poster
7.3

When there is a drought on an Indian reservation, everyone is in desperate need of water so that they can quench their thirst, their crops can grow, the animals will provide them food, etc. But rather than having to wait for the rain to come the old-fashioned way, a weather pill pertaining to that is used to bring instant showers.

Sioux Me

1939

Target Snafu poster
6.0

An armada of malaria-laden mosquitoes seeks human targets and finds Private Snafu, who fails to protect himself adequately against their onslaught.

Target Snafu

1944

Rover's Rival poster
6.0

Porky reads a book of new dog tricks; unfortunately, his dog, Rover, is old. A puppy comes by and taunts him.

Rover's Rival

1937

Of Thee I Sting poster
6.4

A mosquito army trains for, then goes on, an attack mission.

Of Thee I Sting

1946

The Bear's Tale poster
6.1

The Three Bears meets Little Red Riding Hood, told in the style of Tex Avery.

The Bear's Tale

1940

Buckaroo Bugs poster
6.8

Red Hot Ryder is sent to catch the Masked Marauder (Bugs Bunny) who is terrorizing a small Western town.

Buckaroo Bugs

1944

Farm Frolics poster
6.3

A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.

Farm Frolics

1941

The Bug Parade poster
6.0

A spot gag cartoon presenting amusing facts about bugs.

The Bug Parade

1941

Africa Squeaks poster
5.8

Porky Pig goes on a safari in Africa, and runs into an assortment of crazy animals, wacky natives and Kay Kyser giving dance lessons in the middle of the jungle.

Africa Squeaks

1940

We, the Animals - Squeak! poster
5.9

Porky hosts a radio program, where animals tell their stories. The guest star is Kansas City Kitty, the best mouser in the country. She tells the story of her life, including her marriage to Tom Collins, the birth of Little Patrick (not necessarily in that order), and the turning point of her life. The mice have plotted out a major operation like gangsters. They sneak out and kidnap Patrick and hold him hostage...

We, the Animals - Squeak!

1941

Fair and Worm-er poster
7.6

One long chase: worm chases apple; bird chases worm; cat chases bird; dog chases cat; dogcatcher chases dog; dogcatcher's wife chases dogcatcher; mouse chases dogcatcher's wife. With occasional interruptions by a skunk.

Fair and Worm-er

1946

A Day at the Zoo poster
6.5

A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.

A Day at the Zoo

1939

Dangerous Dan McFoo poster
7.0

An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After the fight goes on a while with no conclusion, the narrator tosses a couple of guns, the lights go out, and Dan is shot or is he?

Dangerous Dan McFoo

1939

The Chewin' Bruin poster
6.8

A bear hunter tells Porky the tale of a hunt 30 years ago: a bear got a taste of his chewing tobacco and chased him down to get it; the hunter took the bear on with his bare hands rather than lose the tobacco. Or at least, that's the way he told the story.

The Chewin' Bruin

1940

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