RIP Roberto Maya

 

Actor, voice actor and host Roberto Maya dies at the age of 91

Artist participated in emblematic pornochanchadas, voiced Disney villain and was host of important journalistic program of the 1990s

Globo

10/29/2026

 

He died on the afternoon of last Tuesday (27), at the age of 91, the actor, voice actor and presenter Roberto Maya, at the age of 91, due to a respiratory failure. According to the broadcaster EPTV, Maya was taken by ambulance to the Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa, in Campinas, where he lived, but could not resist.

Roberto Maya was a veteran of the communication and the arts, having acted on several fronts on radio, television and film. He began his career as an actor in radio soap operas in the 1950s. As a voice actor, one of his most remembered works was the tiger Shere Khan, villain of the 1967 animated "Mogli - The Wolf Boy". He also made some TV brochures, such as 1968's "Simply Maria," and 1982's "Happy Final." And it was quite marked by participation in emblematic films of pornochanchada, such as "The Night of the Immorals" (1979), "The Boys of the Hard Easy Life" (1980) and "Eros, the God of Love" (1981).

Maya was very friends with Hugo Carvana, Miele and Daniel Filho, with whom she shared unpublishable experiences. The quartet shared an apartment on the third floor of the No. 410 building of Bartolomeu Mitre Street in Leblon, which served as inspiration for the 2008 film "The House of Mother Joan" in which he also acted.

Another important chapter of Roberto Maya's career was to present the "Special Document", a journalistic program remembered by the investigative reports that was almost a decade on the air, shown between 1989 and 1998, first by Manchete, and then by SBT and the Band.

“That show was a post-dictatorship documentary seed on television. Today, I don’t know if I would have the chest to face the bars that (Nelson, documentarian and creator of the program) Hoineff and I would top at the time. We made the interpretation of the issue freedom of expression that existed in the 1988 Constitution, said the artist to GLOBO, in an interview published in 2008.

Then he gave a period of few works in the 1990s, he returned to perform frequently from the 2000s. He made novels such as "Tropical paradise" (2007) and "Prohibited desire" (2008), in addition to the series "Lara com Z", 2011. His last work was in the 2016 film "Women in Power." Roberto Maya was a widower of Flora, with whom he was married for five decades, and had no children.

MAYA, Roberto

Born: 1/5/1935, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Died: 10/27/2026, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Roberto Mayo’s western – actor:

Jerônimo, o Herói do Sertão (TV) – 1972-1973 (Ventura)

RIP Patrick Stewart

 

Patrick Stewart, star of 'X-Men' and 'Star Trek,' dies at 86

Yahoo News

By Dylan Stableford

October 29, 2026

 

The actor died Wednesday in Los Angeles after “a brief and poignant journey” with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia, according to a statement posted to his X account.

Patrick Stewart, a revered English actor best known for his work on Star Trek, has died. He was 86.

According to a post on his X account, Stewart died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles following "a brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.

"He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all," the post read. "We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.

"His sonorous voice and singular talent will forever be synonymous with indelible performances in every genre. He explored the human condition in all its poetic complexity and brought hope not only to the far reaches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but into science fiction's most iconic final frontier aboard the Starship Enterprise," it continued: "His professional accomplishments were humbly matched by his philanthropy and activism on behalf of human rights, survivors of domestic violence, global refugees, veterans' mental health services, and animal welfare, particularly his cherished foster puppies.

"He was a Knight, Chancellor, motor sport enthusiast, and lifelong Huddersfield Football fan," the post added. "He will be remembered for the dignity, compassion, and humanity he brought to every role — in his art and life."

Born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, Stewart dropped out of school at age 15 to work as a reporter at a local newspaper and then furniture salesman before enrolling in drama school in 1957.

He made his professional theater debut in 1959, eventually joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966.

In the mid '80s, Stewart moved to Los Angeles to star on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ran from 1987 to 1994, as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard.

He later reprised the role on the big screen for a series of Star Trek films, including Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).

Stewart had more than 160 credits as an actor, according to the Internet Movie Database, most recently as the voice of Avery Bullock on the animated comedy series American Dad!.

He will also appear posthumously in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday as Professor X.

In 2010, Stewart was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and given the title of Sir in honor of his contributions to film and theater.

STEWART, Patrick

Born: 7/13/1940, Mirfield, Yorkshire, England. U.K

Died: 10/28/2026, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Patrick Stewart’s westerns – actor, voice actor, producer:

King of Texas – 2002 (John Lear) [producer]

A Million Ways to Die in the West – 2014 [dream voice]

RIP Elke Sommer

 

‘Pink Panther’ star Elke Sommer dies a week before 86th birthday: report

Page Six

By Chris Bradford

October 29, 2026

 

Golden Globe winner and international sex symbol Elke Sommer – who was known for her on-screen affair with Jacques Clouseau in the “Pink Panther” franchise – has died of heart failure – one week before her 86th birthday.

Sommer, 85, “passed away peacefully around 10 p.m” Wednesday at her home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air, her stepson Sebastian Walther told the German outlet Bild, and her death comes three months after her husband of 32 years Wolf Walther lost his battle with cancer.

“Now she can finally be with her beloved husband again,” Sebastian Walther added of the actress.

Berlin-born Sommer’s acting career spanned some 58 years – with her final credited acting role coming in 2017.

However, the actress stepped away from the spotlight in recent years and had become bed-bound in recent months before her death – which Bild reported as being from heart failure. She would’ve turned 86 on Nov. 5.

Sommer was born in the Nazi Reich in November 1940 – a year after World War II began in Europe – and initially she wasn’t thinking about pursuing a Hollywood career, according to Bild.

She wanted to become an interpreter and could speak six languages by the time she was in her teens.

However, her acting break would come after she won the Italian beauty contest Miss Viareggio age 17 while she was on vacation in the Mediterranean country in 1958.

She was spotted by the Italian director Vittorio De Sica before starring in Italian comedies – one of which was entitled “Men and Noblemen.”

Sommer starred in several Italian and German movies in the early 1960s before landing a role in the Mark Robson-directed movie “The Prize” – which starred Paul Newman and Edward G. Robinson.

She received a Golden Globe in 1964 where she was named Most Promising Newcomer.

But one of the actress’ most recognizable acting roles came in the 1964 comedy flick “A Shot in the Dark” – the second installment of the “Pink Panther” film franchise.

Sommer played the maid Maria Gambrelli who was framed for the murder of chauffeur Miguel Ostros before having a sexual affair with Inspector Jacques Clouseau – who was played by “Dr. Strangelove” star Peter Sellers.

She even declined to reprise her role in the 1993 movie “Son of the Pink Panther” because Sellers had already died, according to IMDB. Sellers died in 1980.

Sommer was also known for her roles in the Russell Rouse-directed movie “The Oscar” and the 1968 movie “The Wrecking Crew” – the latter featuring the “King of Cool” Dean Martin.

She didn’t just make her name on the big screen. She featured in three Playboy shoots in September 1964, December 1967 and September 1970.

During a July 1969 interview with the National Police Gazette, she admitted that she had painted naked on a hill outside her Beverly Hills home.

“It’s the best way to get a tan all over,” she quipped according to the article, which described her as “Hollywood’s No.1 nudie.”

Away from the screen, Sommer was married twice. She tied the knot to famed Hollywood columnist Joe Hyams in 1964 – before they divorced in 1981.

Hyams said his marriage was “the best 17 years of [his] life” and had “no regrets,” it was reported by UPI in December 1981.

“When we were married 17 years ago, no one thought our marriage would last long,” he added.

She met Wolf Walther, who would later become her husband of 32 years, in 1989 while she was being cast for the play “Tamara.”

“I was in New York City starring in “Tamara” and had to stay there for four months,” she told Classic Film TV Cafe, reflecting on how the couple met.

“So, I had to find an apartment but they were excruciatingly expensive, tiny and loud. As I knew the managing director of the Essex House, I wanted to talk to him about renting a room but the hotel had a new managing director, a man by the name of Wolf Walther. So we met. For him, it was love at first sight.

“For me, it took a little longer, but not much longer.”

Wolf Walther died in July following a cancer battle – and Sommer’s friend Erwin Schneider told Bild “She could never have imagined a life without her beloved ‘Papa Bear'”

“Now Elke has finally been able to join him,” Schneider, a Munich-based photographer, said

SOMMER, Elke (Elke Schletz)

Born: 11/5/1940, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Died: 10/28/2026, Bel Air, California, U.S.A.

 

Elke Sommer’s westerns – actress:

Frontier Hellcat – 1964 (Annie Dillman)

RIP Peter Medak

 

Peter Medak Dies: ‘The Ruling Class’ & ‘Romeo Is Bleeding’ Director Was 88

DEADLINE

By Greg Evans

October 28, 2026

 

Peter Medak, the award-winning Hungarian-British film and television director with a career spanning six decades and credits including The Changeling starring George C. Scott, Romeo Is Bleeding with Gary Oldman and The Krays starring Martin and Gary Kemp, died October 27 in Los Angeles. He was 88.

His death was announced by family. The family noted that Medak died peacefully but did not reveal a cause.

Born on December 23, 1937, in Budapest, Hungary, Medak showed interest in movie-making by the time he was 8 years old when his aunt gave him a 35-millimeter hand-cranked projector and a piece of film. At 13, under the communist regime, he was banned from going to school, later saying: “My father was a so-called capitalist. … [He was] put away to prison for years. … I spent an awful lot of time on my own, in our apartment, because my father was in prison, my mother was working in a plastics factory, I had a brother who died. … I became an observer … you know, looking through this incredible keyhole of our apartment.”

After fleeing to England in 1956 at 18, Medak started as a trainee at Associated British-Pathe and worked on the sets of major British productions while soon getting promoted to assistant director on films such as The Great Armored Car Swindle (1961) and The Phantom of the Opera (1962). MCA Universal Pictures quickly noticed his work and he was brought to Los Angeles in 1963 and signed to a television-directing contract, working on the Peter Graves-led series Court Martial.

In 1967 Paramount signed him to direct his first feature, Negatives, with Glenda Jackson. His next two films were the acclaimed black comedies A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972), starring Alan Bates, and The Ruling Class (1972), with Peter O’ Toole, for which Medak was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and O’Toole earned an Academy Award nomination.

Medak earned a reputation across his six-decade career as an “actors’ director,” resulting in 27 features with such acclaimed films as The Changeling (1980) with George C. Scott, The Krays (1990); Let Him Have It (1991) and Romeo is Bleeding (1993), with Gary Oldman. His 2018 documentary The Ghost of Peter Sellers received acclaim, winning Best Documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.

His prolific television directing work included episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, Chicago Hope, The Wire and Breaking Bad. With a deep interest in music, he directed some of the earliest music videos for such artists as Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel, and, in the opera realm, directed La voix humaine with Julia Migenes. He staged a production of Salome in Minneapolis and Rigoletto with the Los Angeles Opera.

In a career spanning 60 years, making both cult and critically acclaimed movies, Medak directed 27 features and 59 episodes of television.

“If it’s in your blood, directing,” he said once. “You never stop directing and it doesn’t matter that you’re alone in your mind, dreaming or imagining things but you’re always making a movie.”

Medak is survived by his children Christopher, Joshua, Karen and Cornelia Medak and grandchildren Sacha, Marlowe, Ryden, Oliver and Anders.

He previously was married to Katherine La Kermance, Carolyn Seymour and Julia Migenes, and was in a relationship with Christine Wagner.

MEDAK, Peter

Born: 12/23/1927, Budapest, Hungary

Died: 10/27/2026, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A

 

Peter Medak’s western – director:

Zorro the Gay Blade - 1981

RIP Susan Saint James

 

Susan Saint James, Emmy-Winning Star of ‘Kate & Allie’ and ‘McMillan & Wife,’ Dies at 80

Variety

By Anna Tingley

October 27, 2026

 

Susan Saint James, the Emmy-winning actress who starred opposite Rock Hudson in “McMillan & Wife” and Jane Curtin in the CBS sitcom “Kate & Allie,” died Monday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was 80.

Her death was confirmed to People by a representative.

In a statement shared with the magazine, Saint James’s family described her as someone “generous with her time and energy, which she valued more than money, and instinctively drawn to whoever needed lifting up. She taught her children to pause, be kind and look out for other people.”

“She never met a stranger,” the statement continues. “Every person she met became the most important person in the room at that moment, from a fellow board member to the clerk at the shoe store, who usually walked away knowing her entire life story.”

“Her defining act: weeks after losing her youngest son, Teddy, in the November 28, 2004 plane crash, she delivered his eulogy as a note to each of her other children and her husband, giving them words to heal,” the statement concludes. “Even in the deepest grief of her life, she put everyone else first. Days after the crash she sat with Tim Russert to thank the people who had reached out and to tell them the family was okay.”

Saint James became a television fixture in the late 1960s with NBC’s “The Name of the Game,” an anthology drama in which she played research assistant Peggy Maxwell. The role earned her three Emmy nominations, including a win for supporting actress in a drama series in 1969.

She went on to star alongside Hudon in “McMillan & Wife,” playing Sally McMillan, the wife of a San Francisco police commissioner, from 1971 to 1976. Her performance earned her three additional Emmy nominations.

In 1984, Saint James returned to series television in “Kate & Allie,” starring alongside Curtin as two divorced mothers who decide to raise their children together in a Manhattan apartment. The sitcom ran for six seasons on CBS, earning Saint James two more Emmy nominations.

Her film credits include “Outlaw Blues” (1977), the vampire comedy “Love at First Bite” (1979) and “How to Beat the High Cost of Living” (1980).

Born Susan Jane Miller in Los Angeles on Aug. 14, 1946, Saint James grew up in Rockford, Ill., before pursuing modeling and acting. She largely retired from Hollywood following the conclusion of “Kate & Allie” in 1989, though she made occasional television appearances, including on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “Suits.”

Outside acting, she was a longtime advocate for the Special Olympics. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008.

She is survived by her husband, former NBC executive Dick Ebersol, four children and seven grandchildren.

SAINT JAMES, Susan (Susan Jane Miller)

Born: 8/14/1946, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Died: 10/26/2026, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

 

Susan Saint James’ westerns – actress:

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County – 1970 (Miss Martha Kid)

Alias Smith and Jones (TV) – 1971 (Miss Porter)

Desperate Women (TV) – 1978 (Esther Winters)

RIP Barbara Barrie

 

Barbara Barrie, Actress in ‘Breaking Away,’ ‘Company’ and ‘Barney Miller,’ Dies at 95

An Oscar, Emmy and Tony nominee, she was impressive early in her career in the groundbreaking drama 'One Potato, Two Potato.'

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

October 28, 2026

 

Barbara Barrie, the sprightly actress who starred in the heart-wrenching interracial drama One Potato, Two Potato and earned an Oscar nomination for playing the supportive mom in Breaking Away, died Wednesday. She was 95.

Barrie died at her home in Manhattan, The New York Times reported. Her daughter, Jane Harnick, told the newspaper that she had terminal cancer and that her death was medically assisted.

Barrie also portrayed the dieting foodie Sarah, the wife of a man with a drinking problem (Charles Kimbrough), in the original 1970-72 production of Stephen Sondheim‘s Company, and she received one of the landmark musical’s then record-setting 14 Tony nominations.

A veteran of the stage, she also appeared in the first Broadway runs of Neil Simon‘s The Prisoner of Second Avenue and California Suite, in Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy and, more recently, as a Jewish bubbe in 2017 in Joshua Harmon’s Significant Other.

Fans of Barney Miller know Barrie for playing the wife of the captain of a Greenwich Village police station (Hal Linden) on the 1975-82 ABC sitcom, and she had another recurring role, as the grandmother and confidant of Brooke Shields’ character, on the 1996-2000 NBC magazine-set comedy Suddenly Susan.

For One Potato, Two Potato (1964), directed by Larry Peerce, Barrie was named best actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of a white woman with a young daughter who, after being abandoned by her loser husband (Richard Mulligan), falls in love and marries an African-American office worker (Bernie Hamilton).

The Times wrote that Barrie “justifies the [Cannes] prize with a portrayal that is perceptively naturalistic. She is timid, worried and, finally, feminine in the extreme as a woman fighting against impossible odds in defense of her love and family.”

Released three years before Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the poignant drama, filmed in black and white on location in Painesville, Ohio, is believed to be the first U.S. movie to portray such an interracial relationship.

Also set in the Midwest — in Bloomington, Indiana — the inspiring, coming-of-age tale Breaking Away (1979) saw Barrie receive a supporting actress Oscar nom for playing the reassuring mother of a kid (Dennis Christopher) obsessed with Italian bicycle racing.

After director Peter Yates told her she had the part, she read a revised script and noticed that “it was about a boy who is at odds with his father but who is a chip off the block of his mother. Yet you never see a scene between him and his mother,” she recalled in a 2017 interview.

Barrie asked for some kind of “connecting scene” to be added, and that turned out to be the one in which she shows her passport to her son and tells him to follow his dreams. “That scene would not have been in the picture if I hadn’t asked for it,” she said. “I can’t believe the chutzpah I had in asking for it.”

Barrie lost out to Meryl Streep of Kramer vs. Kramer at the Oscars. She returned as Evelyn Stoller in a 1980-81 ABC adaptation of Breaking Away that starred Shaun Cassidy, but that lasted just eight episodes. She did, however, earn an Emmy nom for that performance as well.

Barbara Ann Berman was born in Chicago on May 23, 1931. She and her family moved to Texas when she was 9, and she graduated from Corpus Christi Senior High School and then the University of Texas at Austin, where her classmates included Rip Torn, Jayne Mansfield and Liz Smith.

She came to New York by train to accompany her boyfriend, who was an actor, and worked as a typist to pay the rent. In 1955, she starred as a shop girl on an installment of ABC’s Ponds Theatre, made her Broadway debut in The Wooden Dish and landed a walk-on part in Giant (1956), where she can be seen at Mercedes McCambridge’s funeral reception.

A recommendation from none other than Katharine Hepburn got her into John Houseman’s American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut, and she worked for two seasons alongside the likes of Fritz Weaver, Will Geer, Nancy Marchand and Sada Thompson. She also studied with Uta Hagen.

In the early 1960s, Barrie starred as Annie Sullivan (the role originated by Anne Bancroft) in a State Department tour of The Miracle Worker that played throughout Europe.

To prepare for her part as a catatonic patient at the mercy of a nasty nurse played by Joan Crawford in The Caretakers (1963), Barrie signed herself into a mental hospital in California, then frantically needed the director of the film, Hall Bartlett, to get her out.

She was starring in a production of Taming of the Shrew in Flint, Michigan, when she was spotted by a producer and offered the role of Julie in One Potato. “It was an odd, eerie day when that phone call came to Flint,” she said in 1964 interview with the Times. “It was the very same day with police dogs and fire hoses in Alabama. I’m not a crusader, but it was a spooky coincidence.”

Her role in Company was the only nonsinging one among the principal players, but she was featured in the 1970 D.A. Pennebaker documentary on the making of the show’s fabled cast album.

Known for her blond, boyish bob, she played Goldie Hawn’s mom in Private Benjamin (1980) and Edie Falco’s mother in Judy Berlin (1999), getting an Independent Spirit Award nomination for the latter.

She also was Diana Rigg‘s next-door neighbor on a short-lived sitcom in 1973-74; tried to woo Gavin MacLeod on a memorable 1974 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show; portrayed Mamie Eisenhower on the 1979 miniseries Backstairs at the White House; and earned two more Emmy noms for guest-starring stints on Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU in 1992 and 2003.

Her TV résumé also included turns on Naked City, The Untouchables, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone (in the 1963 episode “Miniature” with Robert Duvall) and Enlightened.

She wrote the novels Lone Star — about an Orthodox Jewish family assimilating in Texas — and Adam Zigzag as well as two books about overcoming rectal cancer and a colostomy. In an effort to help others, she announced in 2014 that she had been diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

In 2008, Barrie donated photographs, programs, a scrapbook and other items from her career to the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library.

She was married to Jay Harnick from 1964 until his death in 2007. They met at an audition and were friends for 12 years before he proposed.

He was the founder and longtime artistic director of TheatreworksUSA, the nation’s largest touring children’s theater company — which was instrumental to the careers of F. Murray Abraham and Henry Winkler — and the brother of Fiddler on the Roof lyricist Sheldon Harnick.

In addition to her daughter, survivors include her son, Aaron, a Broadway producer, and three grandchildren.

BARRIE, Barbara (Barbara Ann Berman)

Born: 5/23/1931, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 10/28/2026, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

 

Barbara Berri’s westerns – actress:

Giant – 1956 (Mary Lou Decker)

The Virginian (TV) - 1963 (Ellen Beecher)

Rawhide (TV) - 1965 (Liz Harmon)

Scarlett (TV) - 1994

RIP Eric Bauza

 

Eric Bauza, 'Looney Tunes' voice actor behind Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, dead at 46

Eric Bauza had more than 400 voice-acting credits including the iconic 'Looney Tunes' characters

FOX News

By Lauryn Overhultz

October 26, 2026

 

Eric Bauza, the voice behind iconic "Looney Tunes" characters including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, has died, Fox News Digital has confirmed.

Bauza died Sunday from hypertensive cardiovascular disease, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. He was 46.

Beginning in 2001, Bauza amassed more than 400 voice-acting credits in a career that gave voice to beloved characters in animated Looney Tunes series including "Puss in Boots," "Muppet Babies," "Avatar: The Last Airbender," and countless others.

The voice actor's family confirmed his death on Instagram, but has not shared any additional details.

Fox News Digital reached out to Bauza's representative.

Bauza's early breakthrough came when he voiced Stimpy in the 2003 series "Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon," taking over the character previously voiced by Billy West.

He became one of Hollywood's most recognizable voice talents, particularly for his work carrying on the legacy of legendary Looney Tunes performer Mel Blanc.

"I’m a fan first when it comes to this franchise, this band of characters. Mel Blanc will always be the original gangsta, the godfather of voiceover," Bauza told Fox News Digital back in 2020. "He was the first voice actor credited on screen as a voice actor. They never did back in the day. And we’re talking about the ‘30s and ‘40s."

"So he really paved the way to show the importance of vocal performance, not an on-camera one. And the fact that we’re sitting here now talking about his performance just shows you how incredible, impactful and influential his sound is."

Bauza's Looney Tunes work included feature films such as "Space Jam: A New Legacy" (2021), "The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" (2024) and this year's "Coyote vs. Acme." Bauza won three Children's and Family Emmy Awards during his career.

Beyond bringing Bugs Bunny to life on screen, Bauza had a deep appreciation for the character's roots and what made him so beloved by generations of fans. Reflecting on Bugs Bunny's signature personality, Bauza once explained how the character's unmistakable New York accent came to be.

"And if you’re wondering where [Bugs Bunny] got that accent from, they say he’s a rascally rabbit," Bauza told Fox News Digital. "So [Mel] thought, he’s gotta be a tough character. And there’s no one tougher than a New Yorker, that’s what he said. He said it’s either Brooklyn or The Bronx. He mixed the two together, those accents. So that’s why he kind of has that street talk."

"I think he represents the everyman, the every rabbit," he added. "He doesn’t have a lot of high demands in life. All he wants is a carrot and a nice afternoon where no one bugs him. And if you get on his bad side, that’s when you gotta look out. That’s when he becomes the trickster. But really, he’s just a simple rabbit, nothing to him. I think that’s why he’s so appealing. And I think that’s why when he gets in trouble, people want him to succeed."

With hundreds of voice-acting credits across television, film and video games, Bauza built a career introducing classic cartoon characters to new generations while creating memorable performances of his own.

His work helped keep some of animation's most enduring characters alive for modern audiences.

BAUZA, Eric Adrian

Born: 12/7/1979, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died: 10/25/2026, Los Angeles, Calfiornia, U.S.A.

 

Eric Adrian Bauza’s westerns – actor:

Long Gone Gulch (TV) – 2021 [voice of Mako]