Buzz Buzzard is an animated character who appeared in several Woody Woodpecker films produced by Walter Lantz Productions.
[2] Buzz is an anthropomorphic vulture and scammer who targets Woody Woodpecker with scams meant to deprive him of money or food.
In other appearances, Buzz has been a cowboy, a carnival barker, and a soda jerk yet he still remained a royal pain to Woody.
For most of Woody's career, Buzz was the primary foil for Woody, bearing roughly the same relationship to that character as Yosemite Sam had to Bugs Bunny in Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes animated shorts, and Bluto to Popeye in the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye shorts, both from the same era.
[4] During the 14-year theatrical hiatus, Buzz made an appearance in the 1964 television special Spook-a-Nanny, but was voiced by Daws Butler.