Heckle and Jeckle
| Heckle and Jeckle | |
|---|---|
| Terrytoons characters | |
 | |
| First appearance |
"The Talking Magpies" (Terrytoons, 1946) |
| Last appearance |
"Birds of Paradise" (Filmation, 1981) |
| Created by | Paul Terry |
| Voiced by |
Dayton Allen Sid Raymond Roy Halee Ned Sparks Frank Welker Harry Shearer (The Simpsons cameo) Shinsuke Minami Isamu Nagato (CR TerryToons) Toby Huss & Bobcat Goldthwait (Curbside) |
| Information | |
| Species | Yellow-Billed Magpie |
| Gender | Male |
Heckle and Jeckle are postwar animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox. The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yellow-billed magpies; and both were voiced at different times by Sid Raymond (1946–47), Ned Sparks (1947–51), Roy Halee (1951–61), Dayton Allen (1956–66) and Frank Welker (1979–81).[1][2] While in the pilot for Curbside, Heckle was voiced by Toby Huss and Jeckle was voiced by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait.
Production history
Comic books and licensing
Heckle and Jeckle have been licensed for toys, T-shirts, puzzles, games, salt and pepper shakers, Halloween costumes, plush dolls, puppets, coloring books, cookie jars and other consumer products for decades, variously through Terrytoons, CBS Television and Viacom. Selected cartoons from the original series of 52 theatrical titles were briefly made available on VHS home video in the 1990s, but a major DVD release has yet to materialize. The characters also regularly appeared in comic books over the years, including "Mighty Mouse", "Terrytoons" and "Paul Terry's Comics", and even headlined a number of their own comic book titles:
- St. John Publications, Heckle and Jeckle #1–24 (1951–55)
- Pines Comics, Heckle and Jeckle #25–34 (1956–59)
- Dell Comics, New Terrytoons #6–8 (1962)
- Gold Key Comics, New Terrytoons #1–43; 47 (1962–77)
Heckle and Jeckle was planned to be made as a cameo in the deleted scene "Acme's Funeral" from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
References
- ↑ "The Heckle and Jeckle Show". Retrieved 2006-12-15.
- ↑ "Cartoon voice, actor Sid Raymond dead". CNN / AP. 2006-12-11. Archived from the original on 2006-12-12. Retrieved 2006-12-15.