Richard Bickenbach

Richard "Dick" Frederick Bickenbachhttps://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2009/10/nick-and-bick-and-model-sheets.html (9 August 1907 - 28 June 1994) was an American animator and voice actor who did the voices of the Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra Roosters in Swooner Crooner,File:Swooner Crooner Cast.jpg Frank Sinatra in Book Revue,File:Book Revue Cast.jpg the Bing Crosby Dog in Hollywood Canine Canteen, Daffy Duck's Bing Crosby impression in Hollywood Daffy and Catstello's Bing Crosby impression in The Mouse-Merized Cat.
In 1947, Bickenbach left Warner Bros. Cartoons to work for MGM on the Tom and Jerry cartoons as an animator and later as a layout artist.https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/dick-bickenbach Following the closure of the MGM cartoon studio in 1957, Bickenbach went to work for Hanna-Barbera as a layout artist and also designed model sheets for characters such as Yogi Bear.https://animationresources.org/biography-dick-bickenbach/
== Looney Works ==
*1939
**Hobo Gadget Band
**Fagin’s Freshman
**Hare-um Scare-um
*1940
**Busy Bakers
**Confederate Honey
**The Hardship of Miles Standish
**You Ought To Be In Pictures
**Little Blabbermouse
**Porky's Hired Hand
**Shop, Look and Listen
*1941
**Porky's Bear Facts
**The Trial of Mr. Wolf
**Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
**Sport Chumpions
**Rookie Revue
**Rhapsody in Rivets
*1942
**The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
**Lights Fantastic
**Foney Fables
**Fresh Hare
**The Sheepish Wolf
*1943
**Pigs in a Polka
**The Fifth-Column Mouse
**Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
**Yankee Doodle Daffy
**Hiss and Make Up
**Rumors
*1944
**Little Red Riding Rabbit
**Snafuperman
**Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
**Duck Soup to Nuts
**Slightly Daffy
**The Chow Hound
**Hare Force
**Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
**Target Snafu
**The Stupid Cupid
**Stage Door Cartoon
*1945
**Herr Meets Hare
**The Unruly Hare
**Behind the Meat-Ball
**Tale of Two Mice
**Nasty Quacks
*1946
**Hare Remover
**Daffy Doodles
**Hollywood Canine Canteen
**Acrobatty Bunny
**Walky Talky Hawky
**The Mouse-Merized Cat
*1947
**One Meat Brawl
**Birth of a Notion
**Easter Yeggs
**Hobo Bobo
*1951
**His Hare Raising Tale (archive footage from Stage Door Cartoon)
== Looney Roles ==
* "Swooner Crooner" - Bing Crosby Rooster / Frank Sinatra Rooster
* "Book Revue" - Frank Sinatra
* "Hollywood Daffy" - Daffy Duck's Bing Crosby impression
* "The Mouse-Merized Cat" - Catstello's Bing Crosby impression
* "Hollywood Canine Canteen" - Bing Crosby Dog
== References ==
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