Treg Brown | |
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| Born | Tregoweth Edmond Brown (1899-11-04)November 4, 1899 Gilbert, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | April 28, 1984(1984-04-28) (aged 84) Irvine, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Sound editor |
| Years active | 1936–1965 |
| Known for | Classic sound effects in theWarner Bros. library Discovering voice actorMel Blanc[1] |
Tregoweth Edmond "Treg" Brown (November 4, 1899 – April 28, 1984) was an Americanmotion picturesound editor who was responsible for conceiving, recording and selecting thesound effects library inWarner Bros.'Looney Tunes andMerrie Melodies cartoons from 1936 to 1963.[2][1][3] Before that, he worked withCecil B. DeMille. Adding to this, he also gave fellow Warner Bros voice actorMel Blanc his big break.[1] He also won the 1966Academy Award for Sound Effects for his work on the filmThe Great Race.[2]
Reputedly, he vaguely resembled Blanc and was a musician who once played jazz guitar withRed Nichols and his Five Pennies.[4] In the Warner Bros. cartoonOne Froggy Evening (1955), the skyscraper into whichMichigan J. Frog is entombed is named the "Tregoweth Brown Building".
Paying tribute to Brown's comedic aural contributions to classic cartoons, Blanc opined: "The real challenge for any animated-film sound-effects man wasn't to simulate realism but to defy it. Much Warner's cartoon hilarity stemmed from Brown's outlandish imagination. Why always apply the fitting sound effect, went his thinking, when something completely incongruous would be so much funnier?"[5]
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