He has a bombastic and somewhat unrefined personality, and shows a penchant for mischief.
Physically, Foghorn Leghorn is depicted as a very large rooster with a Southern accent he is easily the tallest of all the regular Looney Tunes characters. The accent has similarities to that of another Mel Blanc voice: Yosemite Sam (a strictly Friz Freleng character) and even more similar to a proto-Sam character in Stage Door Cartoon.īiography, characteristics and personality
Īccording to Leonard Maltin, the character's voice was also patterned after a hard-of-hearing West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff, on a radio program called Blue Monday Jamboree. Foghorn adopted many of Claghorn's catchphrases, such as 'I say.' and 'That's a joke, son!' Delmar's inspiration for Claghorn was a Texas rancher who was fond of saying this.
