{"id":508164,"date":"2026-10-26T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508164\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:30:45","slug":"looney-tunes-voice-actor-eric-bauza-dies-at-la-county-home-at-46-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508164\/","title":{"rendered":"Looney Tunes voice actor Eric Bauza dies at LA County home at 46 \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Bauza, the modern voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other popular Looney Tunes characters, died at a home in Los Angeles County on Sunday, officials said. He was 46.<\/p>\n<p>His family announced the voice actor&#8217;s death on social media Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eric Bauza, Emmy Award-winning voice actor and the modern voice of iconic Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, along with dozens of other beloved cartoon characters, has passed away suddenly,&#8221; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bauzilla\/p\/De8RFy4pyov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement posted to Bauza&#8217;s Instagram account<\/a> read. &#8220;More details to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner determined <a href=\"https:\/\/me.lacounty.gov\/case-detail\/?caseNumber=2026-16998\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bauza&#8217;s cause of death<\/a> was hypertensive cardiovascular disease. The department said the manner of death was natural.<\/p>\n<p>A modern successor to Mel Blanc, Bauza also voiced Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Marvin the Martian, Elmer Fudd and many more. He has won three Emmy Awards, in 2022, 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Bauza, the modern voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other popular Looney Tunes characters, died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22887,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-508164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-death-and-dying","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}