Johnny Murray (voice actor)

{{Short description|American actor (1904–1956)}}

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| image = Johnny Murray - Photoplay, July 1929.jpg

| caption = Murray in 1929

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|06|12}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|08|01|1904|06|12}}

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| occupation = Voice actor

| years_active = 1929–1941

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Johnny Murray (June 12, 1904 – August 1, 1956) was an American voice actor. In 1929, he was under a contract with First National Pictures to sing for Richard Barthelmess in his films; he provided Barthelmess's voice in Weary River.{{cite journal |last=Larkin |first=Mark |date=July 1929 |title=The Truth About Voice Doubling |url=https://archive.org/stream/photoplay3637movi#page/n35/mode/2up |journal=Photoplay |location=New York |publisher=Photoplay Publishing Co. |access-date=January 18, 2016 }} He is most famous today for his role as Bosko, the first star of Warner Brothers cartoons, starting with Bosko the Doughboy.{{Cite book |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-70 |last=Scott |first=Keith |publisher=BearManor Media |year=2022 |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages=6}} He was the voice actor for Bosko in the 1933 short, Bosko's Picture Show.{{Cite book |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-70 |last=Scott |first=Keith |publisher=BearManor Media |year=2022 |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages=11}} This cartoon is infamous for perhaps containing the first cartoon depiction of Adolf Hitler, and possibly of being among the first, if not first, widely distributed films that contain verbal usage of the f-bomb.{{Cite book |title=Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America |last=Cohen |first=Karl |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2014 |isbn=9781476607252 |pages=15}}