Paul Julian

Production designer

June 25, 1914 (81 years)

† September 5, 1995

Illinois, USA

Biography

Paul Julian (June 25, 1914 – September 5, 1995) was an American background animator, sound effects artist and voice actor for Warner Bros. Cartoons. He worked on Looney Tunes short films, primarily on director Friz Freleng's Sylvester and Tweety Bird shorts. During his time at Warner, Julian provided the vocal effects of the Road Runner. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Filmography

7.8

Looney Tunes Cartoons

A series of short form cartoons starring the iconic and beloved Looney Tunes characters. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other marquee Looney Tunes characters are featured in their classic pairings in simple, gag-driven and visually vibrant stories.

7.8

What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Road Runner (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang are launched into the 21st century, with new mysteries to solve.

N/A

Coyote vs ACME

Road Runner (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

6.8

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

Road Runner (archive sound) (uncredited)

Term-time ends at Acme Looniversity and the Tiny Toon characters look forward to a summer filled with fun. Buster and Babs Bunny turn a water fight into a white-water rafting trip through the dangerous Deep South; Plucky Duck and Hamton Pig share the most impossibly awful car journey imaginable on the way to HappyWorldLand; Fifi's blind date becomes a "skunknophobic" nightmare; and a safari park is turned upside-down by Elmyra's search for "cute little kitties to hug and squeeze".

7.4

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

Road Runner (voice)

A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. This 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics "Robin Hood Daffy," "What's Opera, Doc?," "Bully for Bugs," and "Duck Amuck". The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc.

5.7

Hare-Breadth Hurry

Bugs Bunny imitating the Road Runner (voice)

When Bugs takes Wile E. Coyote's place in a cartoon, the Bugs/Coyote roles and rules become confused.

7.1

Fast and Furry-ous

Road Runner (voice)

This was the debut for Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. It was also their only cartoon made in the 1940s. It set the template for the series, in which Wile E. Coyote (here given the ersatz Latin name Carnivorous Vulgaris) tries to catch Roadrunner (Accelleratii Incredibus) through many traps, plans and products, although in this first cartoon not all of the products are yet made by the Acme Corporation.

7.3

Beep, Beep

Road Runner (voice)

The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mine shafts.

6.7

Zip 'n Snort

Road Runner (voice) (uncredited)

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a sling shot, a grenade in a toy airplane whose propeller detaches and leaves the plane behind.

6.1

Adventures of the Road-Runner

Road Runner (voice)

Adventures of the Road-Runner is an animated film, directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble and Tom Ray. It was the intended pilot for a TV series starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, but was never picked up until four years later when Warner Bros. Television produced The Road Runner Show for CBS from 1966 to 1968 and later on ABC from 1971 to 1973. As a result, it was split into three further shorts. The first one was To Beep or Not to Beep (1963). The other two were assembled by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1965 after they took over the Looney Tunes series. The split-up shorts were titled Road Runner a Go-Go and Zip Zip Hooray!.

6.1

The Wild Chase

Road Runner (voice)

Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner are racing each other, with Sylvester Cat and Wile E. Coyote in hot pursuit.

7.1

To Beep or Not to Beep

Road Runner

Wile E. Coyote hopes to stop and catch the Road Runner using a huge, boulder-throwing catapult. But no matter where Wile E. positions himself, the catapult drops the boulder on him.

6.0

Superior Duck

Road Runner (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Daffy is supposedly a super hero and tries to show off his "super powers."

6.0

Flash in the Pain

Road Runner (voice) (archive footage)

Wile E. Coyote receives an ACME Transporter, a teleportation device worn on the forearm and tries to catch the Road Runner.

7.2

Whoa, Be-Gone!

Road Runner (voice)

Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds.

7.4

The Whizzard of Ow

Road Runner (voice) (archive footage)

Wile E. Coyote is chasing the Road Runner (still) and comes across the Acme Book of Magic. With the power to levitate heavy boulders, fly on broomsticks, and transfigure anything to suit his need, it seems like Wile E. finally has a chance at getting his breakfast... but then again, this is Wile E. Coyote we're talking about.

6.9

Hopalong Casualty

Road Runner (voice) (uncredited)

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a dynamite stick on a fishing pole, a Christmas present wrapping machine, and ACME Earthquake pills.

7.0

Stop! Look! and Hasten!

Road Runner

A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can't help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus) catch the Road Runner (Hot Rodicus supersonicus).

7.2

Scrambled Aches

Road Runner (voice)

Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner.

7.0

Zipping Along

Road Runner (voice)

Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of mousetraps, but they all manage to backfire on him, naturally.