Henery Hawk first appeared in the 1942 Chuck Jones cartoon The Squawkin'
Hawk. In this film he was a young hawk whose mother was trying
to get him to eat a worm because he was too young to go after chickens.
But Henery was stubborn and he goes after chickens behind her back.
The Squawkin' Hawk (1942)
Robert McKimson then decided to use the character for Walky, Talky,
Hawky in 1946. He kept Henery as a young chicken hawk who is determined
to catch a chicken, but there is one problem: he doesn't know what a chicken
looks like! The rooster he happens to bump into (Foghorn Leghorn) tries to
convince him that the barnyard dog is a chicken and things get confused
from that point forward. Variations on this theme were used several more times
during the Foghorn Leghorn series of cartoons.
While Henery is best known for this series of encounters with Foggy,
he had two other appearances without the big rooster (other than his debut). In
You Were Never Duckier (1948, Jones) Henery was paired with another
fowl character - Daffy Duck. Daffy tries to impersonate a rooster to get
some prize money while Henery is looking for a chicken dinner for him and his
dad. Henery also appeared in a brief cameo during The Scarlet Pumpernickle
(1950, Jones) as a messenger.
This page is just a brief introduction to Henery Hawk. You are invited to
explore around the site to see and hear more about the little fella'. There's everthing
from sound clips of several famous lines of his to desktop wallpapers for you
to use. There's a summary of Henery's career and a page showing the various
characters Henery mistook for a chicken at some point. And more will
be added over time! Have fun!
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Henery's family...
We saw Henery's mom once and his dad three times.
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What is a chicken hawk?
Basically any kind of hawk which attacks poultry is called a "chicken hawk". The
most common type of hawk given this description is the "red-tailed hawk". The name
"chicken hawk" is really a misnomer since these hawks only rarely attack chickens -
they are not their preferred food source.
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