Paul Julian

Paul Hull Husted (June 25th, 1914--September 5th, 1995), better known as "Paul Julian," was a Looney Tunes background-artist and voice-actor best known for voicing Roadrunner for director Chuck Jones and drawing backgrounds (often suburban ones) for Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester Cat series. He first did the "beep, beep" noise in the Warner Brothers parking-lot as a polite means of telling people to get out of his way; Paul recorded several versions of this, and sound-engineer Treg Brown sped some of them up and looped them together. These recordings were ultimately used for the Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner cartoons. However, Paul was uncredited for his work, as Mel Blanc's contract with Warner Brothers ascertained that he was the only credited Looney Tunes voice-actor. Paul perished on September 5th, 1995 in Van Huys, California.