Foghorn Leghorn

Foghorn Leghorn is an animated chicken appearing in numerous Warner Brothers cartoons. He first appeared in 1946 in a Henery Hawk film entitled Walky Talky Hawky. Foghorn Leghorn is considered a significant Looney Tunes character, whose sidekick was The Barnyard Dog.

His voice was created by actor Mel Blanc, heavily patterned after the character of Senator Claghorn, a blustering southern politician who was a regular character on the Fred Allen radio show. Senator Claghorn was created and voiced by radio comedian leghorn is a breed of chicken, and foghorn describes the character's piercing, monotonous voice.

All of the motion picture Foghorn Leghorn cartoons were directed by Robert McKimson.