Kent Rogers
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Kent Rogers (d. July 1944, Pensacola, Florida) was a voice actor for Warner Bros.
Rogers provided the original voice of Beaky Buzzard in Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942) and The Bashful Buzzard (1945). He also provided the voice of Junior Bear in Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears, the initial 1944 entry of Chuck Jones' The Three Bears series. He was killed in an aircraft crash during World War II, shortly after completing voicework for The Bashful Buzzard.
Stan Freberg and Mel Blanc replaced Rogers as the voice of Beaky Buzzard, though the character's appearances were limited after Roger's death. Freberg also assumed the voice of Junior Bear for the duration of "The Three Bears" series. He played Horton in Horton Hatches the Egg in 1942 which was 2 years before his death but in 1994 in In Search of Dr. Seuss Kent Rogers was replaced without horton follewing his other voice over.
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Rogers was the pilot of an aircraft when he crashed and died in July of 1944 right after completing The Bashful Buzzard for him as Beaky Buzzard.
