Henry Corden

 Henry Corden (January 6, 1920 – May 19, 2005),

He was best known for taking over the role of Fred Flintstone after Alan Reed died in 1977. His official debut as Fred's new voice was on the 1977 syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends for which he provided voice-overs on brief bumper clips shown in-between segments, although he had previously provided the singing voice for Reed in both the 1966 theatrical film, The Man Called Flintstone and the 1966 Hanna-Barbera special The New Alice in Wonderland (or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This. Corden had one enduring role for which he was never credited. He was called upon to vocally impersonate Jackie Gleason for the "television edit" of Smokey and the Bandit[3] The repeated broadcasts of this version, the liberal use of the nonsense phrase "scum bum" to replace profanity, and the fact that it obviously was not Gleason speaking have given the performance a sort of cult status. Corden died of emphysema at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, California. Corden's wife of nine years, Angelina, was with him at the time. He is interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, CA.