David "Danny" Weberman (May 24, 1906 - September 16, 1983) was an American voice actor.
Career[]
When Webb arrived in Hollywood, he was using the name Dave Weber. He did celebrity impersonations on the on the Burns & Allen anniversary show along with doing voice work for a Screen Gems cartoon called "Sing Time," (working title of The Big Birdcast) where he impersonated Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Andy Devine and others.
In 1941 after Mel Blanc signed a contract with Leon Schlesinger in which he exclusively did voice work for Warner Bros., Webb became the first person to succeed Blanc as the voice of Woody Woodpecker. He voiced the character in "Pantry Panic" until he enlisted in the army and was succeeded by Kent Rogers.
Filmography[]
- Ostrich Feathers (1937) - Meany (explorer voice)
- Football Fever (1937) - Gorilla
- Yokel Boy Makes Good (1938) - Snuffy Skunk, The Dumb Cluck
- Boy Meets Dog! (1938) - Bobby (judge disguise), Court Stenographer, D.A., Prosecutor, Cop, Father Time
- Movie Phoney News (1938) - Newsreel Commentator (Sport, News and Lew Lehr voices)
- Cheese-Nappers (1938) - Butch-Face Rat, Policeman Sugar Bowl, Radio Announcer
- Silly Seals (1938) - Professor Seal
- The Big Cat and the Little Mousie (1938) - Narrator
- Hollywood Bowl (1938) - Hugh Herbert, Groucho Marx, Charlie McCarthy, W.C. Fields, Joe Penner, Ned Sparks, Joe E. Brown, Ben Bernie, Walter Winchell, Cab Calloway
- Sailor Mouse (1938) - Depopulous Mouse, Butch-Face Rat, Parrot
- The Disobedient Mouse (1938) - Butch-Face Rat, Police Officer
- I'm Just a Jitterbug (1939) - Unseen voice, Bullfrog
- The Birth of a Toothpick (1939) - Narrator, Tree, Short Woodsman, Bear
- Little Tough Mice (1939) - Butch-Face Rat, Narrator, Dead End Mouse #1
- Nellie of the Circus (1939) - Mummy
- Bolo-Mola Land (1939) - Bass Canaries, Siamese Twins
- Slaphappy Valley (1939) - Shorty, Pike's Peak
- Snuffy's Party (1939) - Snuffy Skunk, Mr. Whiffletree
- Silly Superstition (1939) - Lil' Eightball (one line)
- A Haunting We Will Go (1939) - Papa Ghost
- Life Begins for Andy Panda (1939) - Papa Panda, Mr. Whiffletree, Snuffy Skunk, Walter Finchell, Butch Kangaroo, Pygmy Panda Hunters
- Scrambled Eggs (1939) - "Quiet!" Bird, Stork, Mr. Sparrow, Baby Blackbird, Tough Bird, Baby Bird yelling
- Andy Panda Goes Fishing (1940) - Mr. Whiffletree
- Kittens' Mittens (1940) - Police Chief
- 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda (1940) - Papa Panda, Mr. Whiffletree
- Crazy House (1940) - Papa Panda, Echos
- Recruiting Daze (1940) - Gay Bomb
- Woody Woodpecker (1941) - Owl
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company "B" (1941) - Drill Sergeant
- Pantry Panic (1941) - Woody Woodpecker (most lines), Korny Kat, Moose
- Good-Bye Mr. Moth (1942) - Mammy
Notes[]
- Warner Bros. cartoon director Bob Clampett claimed Webb having done to voiced Woody Woodpecker in Pantry Panic.