The Emmy-winning voice actor who played Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes characters has died at 46, his family said, and a Warner Bros. producer has paid tribute to his devotion to the characters.
Eric Bauza, the Emmy-winning voice actor who played Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other beloved Looney Tunes characters, has died at the age of 46, the Associated Press reported on 26 October 2026. In a statement posted to his Instagram account, his family said he died "suddenly". None of the reports reviewed gives a cause of death, and no funeral or memorial details had been published at the time of writing.
Tributes followed quickly from colleagues. Chris DeFaria, the former president of animation and innovative technology at Warner Bros. and producer of "Coyote vs. Acme", wrote in Variety that Bauza voiced Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian and many others, and treated them as icons to be protected for new generations. DeFaria said Bauza was self-taught, held great reverence for original voice master Mel Blanc, and that the two had most recently worked together on "Coyote vs. Acme".
The news matters because Bauza was one of the performers who carried the Looney Tunes voices forward after Mel Blanc's death in 1989, when the roles were divided among several actors, according to DeFaria. The embedded video is the Associated Press report on his death; it is not footage of the circumstances, and the cause has not been publicly stated. Readers should rely on the family's statement and the cited reports for confirmed details.
