Name: Tasmanian Devil
Birthdate:June 19,1954
Birthplace: Tasmania


History

Creator: Robert McKimson
Voices: Mel Blanc
First Appearance: 1954: Devil May Hare
Interesting Info: The Tasmanian Devil devoured,boulders,trees shrubbery,and everything else in his path as he moved like a whirling,gyrating tornado through the jungle landscape. Taz sent all of the other animals in sight stampeding for cover. When he stopped, his snorting, sputtering effusions-as well as his waggling hands-indicated that his was an appetite that could never be slaked. Unfortunately,the meal he favored above all others was rabbit.
First appearing in Robert McKimson's (1954 Devil May Hare) in which ,he wrangles with Bugs Bunny ,who to rid himself of this stertorous nuisance,ends up phoning the "Tasmanian Post Dispatch" and placing a personal ad for a "Lonely lady Devil, object matrimony." The Devilette quickly arrives in a airplane, wearing a veil and carrying a bouquet, and drags the startled bridegroom away. Yet this film did not please Edward Selzer, executive producer of Warner's cartoon division,and he told studio head McKimson to make no more Devil Shorts. Several years would pass until studio head Jack Warner asked Selzer what had become of the character. When Selzer replied that Taz had been retired, Warner commanded Selzer to revive him. Apparently, a character that consumed everything it saw appealed to this Hollywood mogul.
Mckimson brought Taz back in the (1957 Bedeviled Rabbit) in which Bugs Bunny has hidden himself in a crate of carrots,just before it is dropped into Tasmania. The she Devil is also back, but this time as Taz's wife-which gives her all the more reason for lacing into Taz when
Bugs Bunny impersonates a frilly she-devil and hot-wires him.

Filmography

1954: Devil May Hare
Bugs Bunny,Tasmanian Devil: June 19,1954 LT Robert McKimson
Taz is on the loose and chases all the other animals away, but Bugs Bunny
sticks around to order a bride for Taz.

1957: Bedeviled Rabbit
Bugs Bunny,Tasmanian Devil: April 13,1957 MM Robert McKimson
Bugs Bunny's carrot shipment lands in Tasmania where he takes on the
local terror.

1957: Ducking the Devil
Daffy Duck,Tasmanian Devil: August 17,1957 MM Robert McKimson
Daffy Duck uses music to lure the escaped Taz back to the zoo to collect
a $1,000.00 dallar reward.

1962: Bill of Hare
Bugs Bunny,Tasmanian Devil: June 9,1962 MM Robert McKimson
Taz is brought to the U.S. by an expedition ship,when the cage falls an breaks open Taz escapes. Taz tries to eat Bugs Bunny who ends up shooting him out to the sea,runs over him with a truck,train which he mistakes for a moose.

1964: Doctor Devil and Mister Hare
Bugs Bunny,Tasmanian Devil: March 28,1964 MM Robert McKimson
After Taz interrupts Bugs Bunny's bath,Bugs calms him by being his doctor,psychiatrist,and nurse. In the end Bugs and Taz both wind up being beaten up by Frank-en-stien.