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Best known as the voice of Johnny Bravo, which he made sound like Elvis Presley.
- January 1, 1
- 2 min
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Johnny Bravo Is A Take on Its Creator's Full name.
- Bravo’s Voice Is A Mix of Young and Old Elvis.
- Johnny Bravo’s Biggest Supporters at Cartoon Network Were Women.
- The Show Grew from Partible’S Senior Thesis Project.
- Partible Based The Show’S Style on Al Hirschfeld Illustrations.
- Johnny Bravo Was On-The-Job Training For Partible.
- The Legendary Joe Barbera Was Part of The Writers’ Room.
- The Show Was An Early Break For Seth Macfarlane and Butch Hartman.
- Johnny Bravo Led to One of Family Guy’S Most Memorable characters.
- There Was Talk of A Bravo Movie Starring The Rock in 2002.
Though it’s easy to assume that the name "Johnny Bravo" came from Greg Brady’s alter ego on The Brady Bunch, it’s actually a take on creator Van Partible’s full name, which is Efram Giovanni Bravo Partible.
When Partible told the eventual voice of Johnny Bravo, Jeff Bennett, that he wanted the character to sound like Elvis, Bennett only had one question: Old or young? Bennett explained that they’re basically two unique voices, with a younger Elvis sounding much faster and more energetic, while the elder Presley would require Bennett to deepen and “slo...
After Partible’s initial pitch, Cartoon Network was going to pass on Johnny Bravofor not being “cartoony” enough. That is until three prominent women at the network—Ellen Cockrill, Janet Mazotti, and Julie Kane-Ritsch—fought for the show to get picked up. It may sound strange for the chauvinistic Bravo to have their support, but as Partible mention...
While studying animation at Loyola Marymount University, Partible created a short animated film for his senior thesis project called Mess o’ Blues. The short focuses on a character not too far off from an Elvis impersonator, who looks like a much thinner Bravo with jet black hair and one of The King’s trademark white jumpsuits. The film was sent to...
One of the most striking things about Johnny Bravo—especially when compared to its contemporaries—is its minimalist character designs. The lines and extraneous details are kept to a minimum—so much so that Bravo himself often has a face that consists of large black circles for sunglasses and a few simple lines for a nose. In Bravo’s world, mouths s...
When Cartoon Network accepted Partible’s pitch for Johnny Bravo, there was only one problem: Partible had never worked on a full-fledged TV show before. “My new producer, Larry Huber, told me that this was going to be a type of graduate school where I was going to learn how to make cartoons from the ground up in the studio system,” Partible wrote o...
The goal for Hanna-Barbera during this time was to create new shows that still felt like the classic series the studio put out in the ’60s and ’70s. It’s pretty easy to achieve that when one half of the company’s namesake—Joe Barbera—agreed to take a hands-on approach to Johnny Bravoduring the mid-’90s. Though he wasn’t a full-time member of the sh...
The influence Johnny Bravo had on audiences is well documented, but the show’s production also helped launch the careers of two household names of animation: Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane and The Fairly OddParents creator Butch Hartman. MacFarlane was a writer and storyboard artist on Bravoduring its first year, while Hartman performed the same duti...
In the episode “Johnny Bravo Meets Adam West,” the famed former Batman comes to Johnny's aid after Mamma Bravo goes missing (in reality, she's about one minute late getting home from grocery shopping). The episode was written by Hartman and MacFarlane, which is where the future Family Guy creator first metthe man who would eventually become the may...
When Johnny Bravo was in the middle of its Cartoon Network run, Warner Bros. wanted to make the jump from animation to live-action with a movie adaptation of the show, and there were rumors that they wanted Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Johnny. The Rock is apparently a huge Johnny Bravofan, which caught the attention of producers Marty Adelstein and...
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Best known as the voice of Johnny Bravo, which he made sound like Elvis Presley. Is listed as one of the top names in the voiceover industry, and is quite versatile. He joins the ranks of Corey Burton, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Tara Strong, Jess Harnell, Phil LaMarr, and John DiMaggio among many others. Took over for two actors in the Star ...
- October 2, 1962
- Senior Author
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For the character, Bennett used an Elvis Presley impersonation, which was somewhere between the young and the older Presley. In 1997, Johnny Bravo was made into a television series.
When voicing Johnny, he made his voice sound like that of Elvis Presley. He is also famous for voicing Petrie in The Land Before Time series from the second film onward.
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The titular Johnny Bravo (voiced by Jeff Bennett), who is loosely based on Elvis Presley and James Dean, is a blonde-haired sunglasses-wearing, muscular, and dimwitted young man who lives with his mother and attempts to get women to date him, though he always falls short because of his actions.
