Sylvester The Cat

A Quick Look Into Sylvester's Life
Sylvester's Acting Portfolio


A Quick Look Into Sylvester's Life



Brief History

"Sufferin' Succotash" was first uttered by the lispy voice of Sylvester the Cat who made his debut in "Life with Feathers" (1945). It wasn't until 1947 in "Tweety Pie" that he first appeared with his now famous co-star Tweety Bird, it was this film which would win WB it's first Oscar for "Best Short Subject" of the year. Sylvester would later appear opposite his son Jr. and Hippety Hopper the baby kangaroo he often mistook for a giant mouse, and Elmer and Porky would grace the animated sheets with him too (cartoons, lenburg). One of my personal favorites of Sylvester is when he appears with his son, and his son wants him to teach him how to catch a mouse, but the mouse turns out to be Hippety the giant mouse, or baby kangaroo, and in the end Sylvester opts to catch butterflies instead of mice, only to shame his son who must now walk around with a bag over his head because his father could not catch a mere mouse.

Sylvester has been the star of many Warner Brothers cartoons. Click on Sylvester's Acting Portfolio to see his accomplishments.

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Sylvester's Acting Portfolio



Sylvester's Performances



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1995
1997
Miscellaneous

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1945


"Life With Feathers" (directed by Friz Freleng)
"Peck Up Your Troubles" (directed by Friz Freleng)

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1946


"Kitty Kornered" (directed by Bob Clampett, Clampett's only Sylvester cartoon)
"Tweetie Pie" (directed by Friz Freleng)
"Crowing Pains" (directed by Bob McKimson)
"Doggone Cats" (directed by Arthur Davis)
"Catch as Cats Can" (directed by Arthur Davis)

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1948


"Back Alley Oproar" (directed by Friz Freleng
"I Taw A Puddy Tat" (directed by Friz Freleng)
"Hop, Look, and Listen" (directed by Bob McKimson)
"Kit for Cat" (directed by Friz Freleng)
"Scaredy Cat" (directed by Chuck Jones)

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1949


"Mouse Mazurka" (directed by Friz Freleng)
"Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (directed by Friz Freleng)
"Hippety Hopper" (directed by Bob McKimson

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1950


"Home Tweet Home" (directed by Friz Freleng)
"The Scarlet Pumpernickle" (directed by Chuck Jones)
"All Abirrrd" (directed by Friz Freleng
"Canary Row" (directed by Friz Freleng)
"Pop 'Im, Pop!" (directed by Bob McKimson
"Canned Feud (d: Friz Freleng)
"Putty Tat Trouble" (d: Friz Freleng)
"Room and Bird" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Tweety's S.O.S." (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Tweet, Tweet, Tweety" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)

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1952


"Who's Kitten Who?" (d:Robert McKimson, costarring Sylvester Jr.)
"Gift Wrapped" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Little Red Rodent Hood" (d: Friz Freleng)
"Ain't She Tweet" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Hoppy Go Lucky" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper)
"A Bird in a Guilty Cage" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Tree For Two" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Spike and Chester)

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1953


"Snow Business" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"A Mouse Divided" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Mrs. Sylvester, Drunk Stork)
"Fowl Weather" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Tom-Tom Tomcat" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"A Street Cat Named Sylvester" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Catty Cornered" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Cats-A-Weigh" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.)

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1954


"Dog Pounded" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Bell Hoppy" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper)
"Dr. Jerkyl’s Hide" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Spike and Chester)
"Claws For Alarm" (d: Chuck Jones, costarring Porky Pig)
"Muzzle Tough" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Satan's Waitin'" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"By Word of Mouse" (d: Friz Freleng)

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1955


"Lighthouse Mouse" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper)
"Sandy Claws" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Tweety's Circus" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Jumpin' Jupiter" (d: Chuck Jones, costarring Porky Pig and Instant Martian)
"A Kiddie's Kitty" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Little Suzanne)
"Speedy Gonzales" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"Red Riding Hoodwinked" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Heir Conditioned" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Elmer Fudd)
"Pappy's Puppy" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Butch J. Bulldog, Drunk Stork)

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1956


"Too Hop to Handle" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.)
"Tweet and Sour" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Tree Cornered Tweety" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"The Unexpected Pest" (d: Robert McKimson)
"Tugboat Granny" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.)
"Yankee Dood It" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Elmer Fudd

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1957


"Tweet Zoo" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Tweety and the Beanstalk" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Birds Anonymous" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Greedy For Tweety" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Mouse-Taken Identity" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.)
"Gonzales' Tamales" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales)

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1958


"A Pizza Tweety Pie" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"A Bird in a Bonnet" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)

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1959


"Trick or Tweet" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Tweet and Lovely" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"The Cat's Paw" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Sylvester Jr.)
"Here Today, Gone Tamale" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"Tweet Dreams" (d: Friz Freleng, also Robert McKimson (uncredited), costarring Tweety)

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1960


"West of the Pesos" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"Goldimouse and the Three Cats" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Sylvester Jr. and Mrs. Sylvester)
"Hyde and Go Tweet" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"Mouse and Garden" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Sam the cat)
"Trip For Tat" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)

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1961


"Cannery Woe" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"Hoppy Daze" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper)
"Birds of a Father" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Sylvester Jr.)
"D' Fightin' Ones" (d: Friz Freleng)
"The Rebel Without Claws" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)
"The Pied Piper Guadalupe" (d:Friz Freleng,costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"The Last Hungry Cat" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)

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1962


"Fish and Slips" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Sylvester Jr.)
"Mexican Boarders" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales and Slow Poke Rodriguez)
"The Jet Cage" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Tweety)

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1963


"Mexican Cat Dance" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"Chili Weather" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"Claws in the Lease" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Sylvester Jr.)

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1964


"A Message to Gracias" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"Freudy Cat" (d: Robert McKimson, costarring Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.)
"Nuts and Volts" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"Hawaiian Aye Aye" (d: Gerry Chiniquy, costarring Tweety)
"Road to Andalay" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales)

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1965


"It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales, Daffy Duck)
"Cats and Bruises" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Speedy Gonzales)
"The Wild Chase" (d: Friz Freleng, with re-used footage by Chuck Jones )(uncredited), costarring Speedy Gonzales, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote)

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1966


"A Taste of Catnip" (d: Robert McKimson, cameo with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales)

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1979


"Bugs Bunny’s Christmas Carol" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Yosemite Sam, plus a cast of thousands)-made for TV

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1980


"The Yolk’s On You" (d: Friz Freleng, costarring Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy and Daffy Duck)-made for TV

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1995


"Carrotblanca" (d: Stephen Fossatti, costarring a cast of thousands)

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1997


"Father of the Bird" (d: Stephen Fossatti)

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Miscellaneous


Sylvester has also appeared in various compilation films of classic shorts throughout the 1980’s. During the 1990's, Sylvester appeared in "Tiny Toon Adventures". The puddy tat has been in commercials for various products since the 1960’s, and this still continues today, for such products in the 1990’s as Orange Crush and Welch’s jelly, and recently, Miracle Whip Mayonnaise and MCI telephone service. He would again appear in “Space Jam” (1996), and “Tweety’s High Flying Adventure” (1997, video). In addition, Sylvester appeared in a series on the WB network from 1995 to 1998 entitled “Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries”. Sylvester is also a regular in Looney Toon‘s internet cartoon serials. Except for “Space Jam”, from 1994 onward, Sylvester’s voice has been handled by the talented Joe Alaskey.

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