Aside from the Senator Claghorn reference, his first name " Foghorn" is indicative of his loudmouthed personality, while his surname " Leghorn" refers to a particular Italian breed of chicken.įoghorn often fancied himself a mentor figure to the smaller and younger characters he encountered, particularly Henery Hawk, tossing off bits of self-styled sagacity interjected with phrases like "Pay attention, son", or "Look at me when I'm talkin' to ya, boy", both of which borrowed heavily from Senator Claghorn's vernacular. He has a bombastic and somewhat unrefined personality, and shows a penchant for mischief. Physically, Foghorn Leghorn is depicted as a very large rooster with a non-rhotic Southern accent he is easily the tallest of all the regular Looney Tunes characters. The accent has similarities to that of another Mel Blanc voice: Yosemite Sam (a strictly Friz Freleng character) and even more similar to a proto-Sam character in Stage Door Cartoon.īiography, characteristics and personality Īccording to Leonard Maltin, the character's voice was also patterned after a hard-of-hearing West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff, on a radio program called Blue Monday Jamboree. Foghorn adopted many of Claghorn's catchphrases, such as "I say." and "That's a joke, son!" Delmar's inspiration for Claghorn was a Texas rancher who was fond of saying this. 2 Biography, characteristics and personalityįoghorn Leghorn was directly inspired by the character of Senator Claghorn, a blustery Southern politician played by Kenny Delmar on Fred Allen's popular 1940s radio show.
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