Jeff Bergman (born April 17, 1953) is an American voice actor who is one of the modern day voices of various classic cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, George Jetson, Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and many more. April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Bugs Bunny is a fictional animated rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ... Daffy, as Duck Dodgers, faces off against Marvin the Martian in the 1953 short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, a parody of Buck Rogers. ... Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies characters. ... For the shortwave radio station, see Yosemite Sam (shortwave). ... The Jetsons was a prime-time American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. ... The Flintstones is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ... Yogi Bear Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in a series of animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ... Huckleberry Hound is a fictional cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera, and the star of the late 1950s animated series The Huckleberry Hound Show, Hanna-Barberas second series made for television after The Ruff & Reddy Show. ...

The story is told of how when Jeff was getting his start, he made a tape of himself doing several of Mel Blanc's characters, including Bugs Bunny. He then took the tape to the producers, and had thus rigged the tape player so that he could use a switch to instantly toggle back and forth between the original Mel recording, and his own recording of the same lines. When he did this, it was impossible for them to tell which was Jeff and which was Mel. Thus his vocal ablilty was established and his career was launched.

One of the more recent times when he voiced several Looney Tunes characters is in the 1991 cartoon short "Blooper Bunny: Bugs Bunny 51st and 1/2 Anniversary Spectacular," in which he voiced Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, and Sam. The cartoon was produced by Greg Ford, a Looney Tunes fan, historian, and consultant. He also is the first one to have the honors of voicing Bugs after Mel Blanc died in 1989. Looney Tunes opening title Looney Tunes is a Warner Brothers animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of cartoon shorts for Warner Bros. ...