Woody Woodpecker is a funny animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker, who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures. Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben "Bugs" Hardway, who had previously laid the groundwork for other two screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s. He was also orginally voiced by prolific voice actor Mel Blanc, who was succeeded by Ben Hardway and later by Grace Stafford, wife of Walter Lantz. His laugh went ,"Guess who? Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha!" when Mel Blanc had already used a simliar laugh in the earlier Warner Bros. cartoons such as Elmer's Candid Camera.
Woody Woodpecker cartoons were first broadcast on television in 1957 under the title The Woody Woodpecker Show, which featured Lantz cartoons bookended by new footage of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz. Very much like Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, Woody is part of a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fameon 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.
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