The MeTV folks whipped up this little video tribute to one of my favorite (and much-missed) friends, the late Howard Morris. It's about all the voices that Howie supplied on The Flintstones — although I believe at least one that they think was Howie — the bird blowing up the balloons — was actually Mel Blanc.
I directed Howie for many years on Garfield and Friends and a few other shows. He was an amazing talent. If you made him do a line six times, he would give you six completely different interpretations. Sometimes, I'd give him no direction. I'd just let him do a speech over and over until he came up with something I liked and it was rarely something I (or anyone) could have coached him into doing. His talent as an actor was that organic and natural. He was hilarious off-camera or off-mike as well.
The Flintstones didn't use him to his full potential but as you watch this montage, note how he manages to make every line a little funnier and more colorful than what was on the script before him…