Editing Don Messick (section)

==Early life==
Messick was born on September 7, 1926, in [[Buffalo, New York]],<ref name="AnimRes Bio">{{cite web |url=https://animationresources.org/category/don-messick/ |website=AnimationResources.org |title=Biography: Don Messick |date=November 30, 2010 |access-date=September 1, 2020}}</ref> the son of Binford Earl Messick, a house painter, and Lena Birch ({{née}} Hughes).{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}} He had one brother, F. Thomas Messick.<ref name="Newspapers.com"/> He was raised in the [[Bolton Hill, Baltimore|Bolton Hill]] neighborhood of [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]],<ref name="AnimRes Bio" /> where he received his early training as a performer at the Ramsay Street School of Acting.<ref name="BR">{{cite web |url=http://members.aol.com/baltohoya/messick.htm |first=Brett |last=Rogers |title=Don Messick |date=August 29, 2000 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322181755/http://members.aol.com/baltohoya/messick.htm |archive-date=March 22, 2008}}</ref>