US - Eric Bauza, the voice artist behind Looney Tunes characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, has died aged 46.

A statement from the Emmy award-winning star's family posted on Instagram said he had died "suddenly". Bauza had voiced a number of characters in this summer's animated hit Coyote vs. Acme, and appeared in the recent release Forgotten Island. Variety reports that the cause of death was hypertensive cardiovascular disease and that Bauza died at home on Sunday.