Tex Avery — Actor (37)
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The Sneezing Weasel (1938) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sneezing Weasel
director: Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Bernice Hansen …
other title: La belette qui éternue / La Belette qui éternue
When Mama hen takes her chicks out to get breakfast, little Wilbur is soaked in a sudden rainstorm and comes down with a head cold. Mama puts him to bed, then goes back out to get the doctor. A conniving weasel, seeing Mama leave, disguises himself as a doctor and comes calling on the unattended chicks.
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Believe It or Else (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Believe It or Else
director: Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Mel Blanc …
other title: Incroyable mais vrai !
In this Ripley's Believe It or Not! parody, some of the supposed curiosities we are shown are a man who daily drinks fifty quarts of milk, the world's loudest hog caller, a human basketball, a new giant telescope showing life on Mars, and a man who saws people in half.
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Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dangerous Dan McFoo
director: Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Sara Berner …
other title: Dan McFoo le terrible
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?
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Red Hot Rangers (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Red Hot Rangers
director: Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Dick Nelson
other title: Pas de fumée sans feu / George und Junior - Zwei brandheiße Typen
Forest rangers George and Junior try to snuff out a frisky flame with a sparky personality that threatens to set the forest alight.
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Jerky Turkey (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Jerky Turkey
director: Tex Avery actor: Daws Butler / Bill Thompson …
other title: Esst nicht bei Joe / Le dindon de la farce …
A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market. War and rationing gags abound (Pilgrims line up behind a sign reading "Ye Cigarettes Today"), as well as a running gag featuring a bear wearing an "Eat at Joe's" sandwich sign. The turkey harnesses the power of gags to save himself.
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Ghost Wanted (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ghost Wanted
director: Chuck Jones actor: Tex Avery
other title: On demande un fantôme
An inexperienced little ghost tries out for a house-haunting job, but winds up getting terrorized by the fat ghost interviewing him for the position.
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Hamateur Night (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hamateur Night
director: Tex Avery actor: Mel Blanc / Tex Avery …
other title: Varieté der Amateure / Un crochet qui accroche
It's amateur night at the local theatre, and a procession of bad acts comes and goes: various musicians, a magician, and some actors. But they keep getting interrupted by Egghead singing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain".
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A Day at the Zoo (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Day at the Zoo
director: Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Mel Blanc …
other title: Ein Besuch im Zoo / Une journée au zoo …
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.
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Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Uncle Tom's Bungalow
director: Tex Avery actor: Mel Blanc / Tex Avery …
other title: Le Bungalow de l'oncle Tom / 汤姆叔叔的平房 …
Warner Bros. cartoon parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.
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Egghead Rides Again (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Egghead Rides Again
director: Tex Avery actor: Tex Avery / Mel Blanc …
other title: Tête d'œuf remonte à la surface / Egghead Cabalga de nuevo …
City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.
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Barney's Hungry Cousin (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Barney's Hungry Cousin
director: Dick Lundy actor: Paul Frees / Tex Avery
other title: Un Cousin Affamé / Un cousin affamé
Barney Bear heads to Jellystone National Park for a vacation while another bear, native to the park, notices Barney's picnic lunch and makes various attempts to steal the food.
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Fresh Fish (1939) IMDb TMDB
Fresh Fish
director: Tex Avery actor: Mel Blanc / Sara Berner …
other title: Sacrés poissons
A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns. Among the running gags, a two-headed fish who keeps asking for directions to Mr. Ripley and a professor in a diving sphere looking for a rare wim-wam whistling shark.