Homer Pigeon

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox character | name = Homer Pigeon | image = HomerPigeon SpookANanny.jpg | caption = Homer Pigeon (art by Walter Lantz Studios) | first = ''Pigeon Patrol'' (1942) | last = ''Spook-A-Nanny'' (1964) | creator = Walter Lantz <br> Alex Lovy | voice = Kent Rogers (1942–1943) <br> Dallas McKennon (1956) <br> Mel Blanc (1957)<ref name="Records">{{cite web |title=Woody Woodpecker on Records {{!}} |url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/woody-woodpecker-on-records/ |website=cartoonresearch.com |accessdate=12 June 2020}}</ref><br>Gloria Wood (1957)<ref name="Records" /> | species = Pigeon | gender = Male }} '''Homer Pigeon''' is an animated character created by Walter Lantz, who made his first appearance in the cartoon "Pigeon Patrol" in 1942.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rovin |first1=Jeff |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals |date=1991 |publisher=Prentice Hall Press |isbn=0-13-275561-0 |accessdate=8 April 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc00rovi/page/122/mode/2up/ |pages=122–123}}</ref> His final appearance was in 1964, in ''The Woody Woodpecker Show'' episode "Spook-A-Nanny".

The character's voice was based on Red Skelton's rube character, Clem Kadiddlehopper.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/92/mode/2up |pages=92–93}}</ref>

==List of appearances== * ''Pigeon Patrol'' (August 3, 1942)<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1942.html | title=The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1942 | access-date=2010-08-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219151403/http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1942.html | archive-date=2010-12-19 | url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/2746-Pigeon_Patrol.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728135946/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/2746-Pigeon_Patrol.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 28, 2012 | title=Pigeon Patrol (Walter Lantz Productions)}}</ref> * ''Swing Your Partner'' (April 26, 1943)<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1943.html | title=The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1943 | access-date=2010-08-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040814052313/http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1943.html | archive-date=2004-08-14 | url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/2503-Swing_Your_Partner.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731112802/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/2503-Swing_Your_Partner.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 31, 2012 | title=Swing Your Partner (Walter Lantz Productions)}}</ref> * ''The Auto-Lite Sparkys'' (1951)<ref>{{cite web | title=Lantz (Walter) animation archive | url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1x0nb0d6/dsc/?query=Homer%20pigeon&dsc.position=2501#aspace_ref4033_rju | website=oac.cdlib.org | access-date=1 March 2023}}</ref> * ''Pigeon Holed'' (January 16, 1956)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1956.html | title=The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1956 | accessdate=2008-12-02 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723103118/http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1956.html | archivedate=2008-07-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3672-Pigeon_Holed.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730085820/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3672-Pigeon_Holed.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 30, 2012 | title=Pigeon Holed (Walter Lantz Productions)}}</ref> * ''Spook-A-Nanny'' (October 10, 1964)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chillywillyfan.com/video.php | title=Chilly Willy's Sub-Arctic World - Video den | accessdate=2010-08-24 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817050713/http://www.chillywillyfan.com/video.php | archivedate=2012-08-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last1=DataBase | first1=The Big Cartoon | title=Spook-a-Nanny (Walter Lantz Productions, Universal Studios) | url=https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/140631-Spook-a-Nanny | website=Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB) | accessdate=14 September 2020 | language=en}}{{dead link|date=January 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

== Comics == * ''Animal Comics'' (1943) (Dell) * ''New Funnies'' (1943) (Dell) * ''Walter Lantz New Funnies'' (1946) (Dell) * ''Walter Lantz Andy Panda'' (1952) (Dell) * ''Walter Lantz Woody Woodpecker'' (1952) (Dell) * ''Woody Woodpecker's Back to School'' (1952) (Dell) * ''Woody Woodpecker's Country Fair'' (1956) (Dell) * ''Golden Comics Digest'' (1969) (Gold Key) * ''Walter Lantz Andy Panda'' (1973) (Gold Key)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101219063815/http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/ The Walter Lantz-o-Pedia] * [http://www.toonopedia.com/articles/homerpig.htm Homer Pigeon]{{Dead link|date=January 2020|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. [https://archive.today/20240525214627/https://www.webcitation.org/66tVoYnmo?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/homerpig.htm Archived] from the original on April 13, 2013.

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