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Treg Brown(1899-1984)

  • Editor
  • Sound Department
  • Editorial Department
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Legendary editor whose wizardry in creating innumerable sound effects from everyday objects helped elevate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies to rank among the most popular cartoons ever made. Tregoweth Edmond Brown was born in Gilbert, Minnesota, in November 1899. Pursuing a musical career early on, he made his first foray as a performer in vaudeville. Later, he worked as a sideman for several notable jazz bands (he played banjo in Benny Meroff's orchestra and was on guitar for Red Nichols and his 'Five Pennies'). He moved to California during the Depression era, and, from 1932 to 1934, served as music editor on Cecil B. DeMille features at Paramount, gaining valuable experience.

By the time he joined Carl W. Stalling at Leon Schlesinger's 'Termite Terrace', Brown was an accomplished multi-instrumentalist in his own right, backed by his own orchestra. He went on to excel at integrating his sound effects with Stalling's orchestrations. It was, first and foremost, Brown's inventiveness and boundless imagination which brought a motion picture quality to Warner Brothers cartoons. Not content with simply using musical instruments to create sound effects, he would instead raid the studio library for sounds from action films. Incorporating these added a touch of aural realism to the visual fantasy on the screen and thereby heightened the desired dramatic effect. Brown also ventured 'into the field' with a tape recorder to capture a multitude of noises which eventually became part of a great sound effects library created on film to be used over and over again (for example, he recorded the audience and animal sounds during a bullfight in Barcelona for Bully for Bugs (1953)). Brown presided over an entire garage full of noise-making devices.

Treg Brown is credited with introducing the hitherto unknown radio actor Mel Blanc to Schlesinger's illustrious line-up of animators (who included Tex Avery, Robert Clampett and Friz Freleng) and effectively got him hired. History was made that day. Brown himself received a Best Sound Effects Oscar late in his career for The Great Race (1965).
BornNovember 4, 1899
DiedApril 28, 1984(84)
BornNovember 4, 1899
DiedApril 28, 1984(84)
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Mantan Moreland and Marguerite Whitten in Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941)
Mr. Washington Goes to Town
6.5
  • Sound Department
  • 1941
The March of Time
Short
  • Editor
  • 1939
Bugs Bunny in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
7.1
  • Editor(segments Hyde and Go Tweet, Transylvania 6-5000, The Abominable Snow Rabbit)
  • 1988
Bugs Bunny in The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979)
The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie
7.2
  • Editor
  • 1979

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Editor

  • The Bugs n' Daffy Show (1996)
    The Bugs n' Daffy Show
  • That's Warner Bros.! (1995)
    That's Warner Bros.!
  • Elmer Fudd's School of Hard Knocks
    • (segments Each Dawn I Crow, Pests for Guests, Upswept Hare, Don't Axe Me, Robot Rabbit)
  • Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (1990)
    Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends
  • Bugs Bunny in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
    Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
    • (segments Hyde and Go Tweet, Transylvania 6-5000, The Abominable Snow Rabbit)
  • The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986)
    The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
  • Bugs Bunny in The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour (1985)
    The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
  • Bugs Bunny in The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979)
    The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie
  • Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers (1979)
    Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
  • How Bugs Bunny Won the West (1978)
    How Bugs Bunny Won the West
  • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (1978)
    The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
  • Bugs Bunny in Space (1977)
    Bugs Bunny in Space
  • The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show (1976)
    The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show
  • The Sylvester & Tweety Show (1976)
    The Sylvester & Tweety Show
  • The Bugs Bunny Show (1960)
    The Bugs Bunny Show

Sound Department

  • Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in The Great Race (1965)
    The Great Race
    • (uncredited)
  • Señorella and the Glass Huarache (1964)
    Señorella and the Glass Huarache
    • (uncredited)
  • Nuts and Volts (1964)
    Nuts and Volts
    • (uncredited)
  • A Message to Gracias (1964)
    A Message to Gracias
    • (uncredited)
  • To Beep or Not to Beep (1963)
    To Beep or Not to Beep
    • (uncredited)
  • Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)
    Transylvania 6-5000
    • (uncredited)
  • Now Hear This (1962)
    Now Hear This
  • Martian Through Georgia (1962)
    Martian Through Georgia
    • (uncredited)
  • Adventures of the Road-Runner (1962)
    Adventures of the Road-Runner
    • (uncredited)
  • Mexican Boarders (1962)
    Mexican Boarders
    • (uncredited)
  • Mel Blanc in A Sheep in the Deep (1962)
    A Sheep in the Deep
    • (uncredited)
  • The Last Hungry Cat (1961)
    The Last Hungry Cat
    • (uncredited)
  • Beep Prepared (1961)
    Beep Prepared
    • (uncredited)
  • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961)
    The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
    • (uncredited)
  • Compressed Hare (1961)
    Compressed Hare
    • (uncredited)

Editorial Department

  • Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
    Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
  • Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
    Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
  • Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television (1982)
    Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
  • Mel Blanc, Robert J. Walsh, June Foray, Jim Champin, David Detiege, John W. Dunn, Stan Freberg, Friz Freleng, Ralph James, Don McGinnis, Frank Nelson, Frank Welker, and Bugs Bunny in The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
    The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
  • Daffy Duck's Very Merry Special (1980)
    Daffy Duck's Very Merry Special
  • The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980)
    The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
  • Bugs Bunny's Holiday Diet (1979)
    Bugs Bunny's Holiday Diet
  • The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special (1979)
    The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special
  • Bugs Bunny: The Feast of Witches (1977)
    Bugs Bunny: The Feast of Witches

Personal details

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    • November 4, 1899
    • Gilbert, Minnesota, USA
    • April 28, 1984
    • Irvine, California, USA
    • May 1, 1924 - ?

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    Brown was a master of creating a myriad of sound effects from mundane items. For example, he could crumple a newspaper to sound like any kind of fire.

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