Larry Storch, best known as F-Troop's bumbling, lovable Cpl. Agarn, has died at 99 I do believe this marks him as the last voice actor from the Golden Age of Animation to have passed. Described as a "kinetic wiseguy", Storch got his start as a nightclub performer and later lent his pipes to a number of their latter-day Warner Bros. stars like Merlin the Magic Mouse, Cool Cat, and
Spooky (
no, not that one). A gifted impressionist, Storch was also J. Phineas Whoopee on the Tennessee Tuxedo cartoons, Drac from the
Groovie Ghoulies, and had the honor of being the first actor to voice The Joker in animation. He also started that "Judy, Judy, Judy" thing every two-bit Cary Grant impersonator seems to do; Grant himself never did that, at least on film.
Here's Storch essentially talking to himself as both the leads in 1968's "Three-Ring Wing Ding". Col. Rimfire's plummy British accent always kills me, don't know why.