Dick Nelson

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Canadian-born American voice actor who worked for Walter Lantz and other studios in the 1940s. He originated the voice of Navy mascot Mr. Hook in the war-bond cartoon Take Heed Mr. Tojo (1943) — the only time he voiced the character.

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Animation, Comedy

The first of four Mr. Hook cartoons made for the US Navy to sell war bonds. Set in 1953, sailor Hook tells his young son how buying bonds a decade earlier helped him defeat a Japanese fighter pilot attacking his aircraft carrier. The only Hook short produced at Walter Lantz Productions — in Technicolor — before the series moved to Warner Bros., and the only one directed by James "Shamus" Culhane, with Dick Nelson voicing Hook. A US government film in the public domain; like much wartime propaganda it trades in the racial caricatures of the era.

Animation · Comedy · War

Take Heed Mr. Tojo

1943 - as Mr. Hook (voice)