Character Origins
The deep, gravelly voice of Commander McBragg was provided by veteran voice talent Kenny Delmar, best known for his stammering Non-Stop Talking as "Senator Claghorn" (of which Foghorn Leghorn, the Looney Tunes character is a parody) on the old Fred Allen radio show. The character of McBragg is based upon English actor C. Aubrey Smith - from the 1939 motion picture The Four Feathers ("War was war then") - who often played roles in films similar to the exploits related by McBragg. The stories, more often than not, were either taken directly from or were imitations of the Baron Münchhausen stories of Rudolf Erich Raspe. Other influences include the early animated character Colonel Heeza Liar, the subject of a number of animated shorts created by John R. Bray and directed by Walter Lantz, who would later become better known for the Woody Woodpecker franchise.
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