June Foray (born June Lucille Forer; September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an American voice actress and radio personality, best known as the voice of such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Lucifer from Disney's Cinderella, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Granny from the Warner Bros. cartoons directed by Friz Freleng, Grammi Gummi from Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears series, and Magica De Spell, among many others.
June Foray | |
|---|---|
 Foray at the 2014 Annie Awards | |
| Born | June Lucille Forer September 18, 1917 |
| Died | July 26, 2017 (aged 99) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Voice actress, radio personality |
| Years active | 1929–2014[1][2] |
| Notable work | Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Cindy Lou Who, Granny from the Tweety cartoons, Witch Hazel, Jokey Smurf, Magica De Spell from DuckTales, Grammi Gummi, and others |
| Board member of | ASIFA-Hollywood |
| Spouses | Bernard Barondess
(m. 1941; div. 1953)Hobart Donovan
(m. 1955; died 1976) |
| Awards | Daytime Emmy Awards 2012 Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program The Garfield Show Annie Awards 1996 and 1997 Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries 1974 Inkpot Award[3] |
Her career encompassed radio, theatrical shorts, feature films, television, records (particularly with Stan Freberg), video games, talking toys, and other media. Foray was also one of the early members of ASIFA-Hollywood, the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation. She is credited with the establishment of the Annie Awards, as well as being instrumental in the creation of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring her voice work in television.[4]
Chuck Jones was quoted as saying: "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray."[5]
Early life
editJune Lucille Forer was born on September 18, 1917,[6] in Springfield, Massachusetts, one of three children of Ida (Robinson) and Morris Forer. Her mother was of Lithuanian Jewish and French Canadian ancestry, and her father was a Jewish emigrant from Odessa, Russian Empire.[7] The family resided at 75 Orange Street, Forest Park.[8] As a small child, Foray first wanted to be a dancer, so her mother sent her to local classes, but she had to drop out due to a case of pneumonia.[9] Her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years old;[10] by age 15, she was doing regular radio voice work.[4]
Two years later, after graduating from Classical High School, she moved with her parents and siblings to live in Los Angeles, near Ida's brother, after Morris Forer, an engineer, fell on hard financial times.[8]
Acting career
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After entering radio through the WBZA Players, Foray starred in her own radio series Lady Make Believe in the late 1930s.[11] She soon became a popular voice actress, with regular appearances on coast-to-coast network shows including Lux Radio Theatre and The Jimmy Durante Show.[8]
In the 1940s, Foray also began film work, including a few roles in live action movies, but mostly did voice over work for animated cartoons and radio programs and occasionally dubbing films and television.[12] On radio, Foray did the voices of Midnight the Cat and Old Grandie the Piano on The Buster Brown Program, which starred Smilin' Ed McConnell, from 1944 to 1952. She later did voices on the Mutual Broadcasting System program Smile Time for Steve Allen.[10] Her work in radio ultimately led her to recording for a number of children's albums for Capitol Records.[10]
For Walt Disney, Foray voiced Lucifer the Cat in the feature film Cinderella, Lambert's mother in Lambert the Sheepish Lion, a mermaid in Peter Pan and Witch Hazel in the Donald Duck short Trick or Treat. Decades later, Foray was the voice of Grandmother Fa in the 1998 animated Disney film Mulan. She also did a variety of voices in Walter Lantz Productions' Woody Woodpecker cartoons, including Woody's nephew and niece, Knothead and Splinter. Impressed by her performance as Witch Hazel, in 1954 Chuck Jones invited her over to Warner Brothers Cartoons.[10] For Warner Brothers, she was Granny (whom she had played on vinyl records starting in 1950, before officially voicing her in Red Riding Hoodwinked, released in 1955, taking over for Bea Benaderet), owner of Tweety and Sylvester, and a series of witches, including Looney Tunes' own Witch Hazel, with Jones as director. Like most of Warner Brothers' voice actors at the time (with the exception of Mel Blanc), Foray was not credited for her roles in these cartoons.[10] She played Bubbles on The Super 6 and Cindy Lou Who, asking "Santa" why he's taking their tree, in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.[9] In 1960, she provided the speech for Mattel's original "Chatty Cathy" doll;[4] capitalizing on this, Foray also voiced the malevolent "Talky Tina" doll in the Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll", first aired on November 1, 1963.[13]
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Foray worked for Hanna-Barbera, including on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Jetsons, The Flintstones and many other shows. In 1959, she auditioned for the part of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones and voiced the character in the original pilot episode, opposite Mel Blanc who voiced Betty's husband, Barney Rubble, but Bea Benaderet was eventually cast in the role; Foray described herself as "terribly disappointed" at not getting to play Betty.[14] Foray eventually made a guest appearance on The Flintstones as the voice of Granny Hatrock in the episode "The Bedrock Hillbillies".
She did extensive voice acting for Stan Freberg's commercials, albums, and 1957 radio series, memorably as secretary to the werewolf advertising executive. She also appeared in several Rankin/Bass TV specials in the 1960s and 1970s, voicing the young Karen and the teacher in the TV special Frosty the Snowman (although only her Karen singing parts remained in later airings, after Rankin-Bass re-edited the special a few years after it debuted, with Foray's dialogue re-dubbed by an uncredited child actress, Suzanne Davidson).[15] She voiced all the female roles in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina.[16] She played multiple characters on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, including Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick, as well as male lead character Rocket J. Squirrel (a.k.a. Rocky Squirrel) for Jay Ward,[17] and played Ursula on George of the Jungle; and also starred on Fractured Flickers.[18]
In the mid-1960s, she became devoted to the preservation and promotion of animation and wrote numerous magazine articles about animation.[10] She and a number of other animation artists had informal meetings around Hollywood in the 1960s, and later decided to formalize this as ASIFA-Hollywood, a chapter of the Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (the International Animated Film Association).[19] She is credited with coming up with the idea of the Annie Awards in 1972, awarded by ASIFA-Hollywood, having noted that there had been no awards to celebrate the field of animation.[19] In 1988, she was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award.[20] In 1995, ASIFA-Hollywood established the June Foray Award,[21] which is awarded to "individuals who have made a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation". Foray was the first recipient of the award. She was an enthusiastic member of the Los Angeles Student Film Institute advisory board and frequent host and/or presenter at its annual festivals.[22][23] In 2007, Foray became a contributor to ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Archive Project.[24] She also had sat on the Governors' board for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and lobbied for two decades for the academy to establish an Academy Award for animation; the academy created the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001 from her petitioning.[19]
In 2007, Britt Irvin became the first person to voice a character in a cartoon remake that had been previously played by Foray in the original series when she voiced Ursula in the new George of the Jungle series on Cartoon Network. In 2011, Roz Ryan voiced Witch Lezah (Hazel spelled backwards) in The Looney Tunes Show, opposite June Foray as Granny.[25] Foray also voiced May Parker in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–83), as well as Raggedy Ann on several TV movies, Grandma Howard on Teen Wolf, Jokey Smurf and Mother Nature on The Smurfs, and Magica De Spell and Ma Beagle in DuckTales. At the same time, she had a leading role voicing Grammi Gummi on Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, an animated series credited with kickstarting an era of dramatically increased artistic standards for television animation,[26] working with her Rocky and Bullwinkle co-star Bill Scott until his death in 1985.[27]
Foray guest starred only once on The Simpsons, in the season one episode "Some Enchanted Evening", as the receptionist for the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service. This was a play on a Rocky & Bullwinkle gag years earlier in which none of the cartoon's characters, including narrator William Conrad, were able to pronounce "rubber baby buggy bumpers" unerringly. Foray was later homaged by The Simpsons, in the season eight episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", in which the character June Bellamy (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is introduced as the voice behind both Itchy and Scratchy.[28][29] According to The Simpsons writer and producer Mike Reiss, Foray voiced a few parts at the first table read for The Simpsons in early 1989 "but she sounded too cartoony for our show".[30]
Foray appeared on camera in a major role only once, in Sabaka, as the high priestess of a fire cult. She also appeared on camera in an episode of Green Acres as a Mexican telephone operator. In 1991, she provided her voice as the sock-puppet talk-show host Scary Mary on an episode of Married... with Children. She had a cameo role in Boris & Natasha (1992), but once again played Rocky and Natasha throughout the feature film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000). Another on-camera appearance was as herself on an episode of the 1984 TV sitcom The Duck Factory.[31]
She was also often called in for ADR voice work for television and feature films. This work included dubbing the voice of Mary Badham in Twilight Zone episode "The Bewitchin' Pool" and the voices for Sean and Michael Brody in some scenes of the film Jaws. She dubbed several people in Bells Are Ringing, Diana Rigg in some scenes of The Hospital, Robert Blake in drag in an episode of Baretta and a little boy in The Comic.[32]
Later career
editIn 1996 and 1997, Foray won the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production for her work in Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries. In 2000, Foray returned to play Rocky the Flying Squirrel in Universal Pictures' live-action/CGI animated film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, co-starring and produced by Robert De Niro. On Season Three, Episode One ("The Thin White Line") of Family Guy, Foray again played Rocky in a visual gag with a single line ("And now, here's something we hope you'll really like!"). Foray voiced the wife of the man getting dunked ("Don't tell him, Carlos!") in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. In 2003, she guest starred as the villain Madame Argentina in the Powerpuff Girls episode, "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future". During this time, Foray also had a regular role, reprising Granny on Baby Looney Tunes and also Witch Hazel in an episode of another Warner Bros. Animation series Duck Dodgers. In October 2006, she portrayed Susan B. Anthony on three episodes of the podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd. In November 2009, Foray appeared twice on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: in one episode as Ruth, a pie-maker trapped in Bubbie's stomach, and in another episode as Kelly, a young boy having a birthday party and as Kelly's Mom and Captain K'Nuckles' kindergarten teacher.[citation needed]
In 2011, she reprised her role as Granny in Cartoon Network's The Looney Tunes Show, which was her last regular gig. That year, she received the Comic-Con Icon Award at the 2011 Scream Awards. She also appeared as Granny in the theatrically released Looney Tunes short, I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat, which was shortlisted for Academy Award consideration.[33]
In 2012, Foray received her first Emmy nomination and won in the category of Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for her role as Mrs. Cauldron on The Garfield Show.[34] She thus became, at age 94, the oldest entertainer to be nominated for, and to win, an Emmy Award.[35] She reprised her role of Rocky in a Rocky and Bullwinkle short film, which was released in 2014.[36]
In September 2013, she was honored with the Governors Award at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.[37] That same year, she reprised her role as Magica De Spell in the video game DuckTales: Remastered.
Personal life
editForay married Bernard Barondess in 1941.[38] The marriage ended in divorce.[39] She met Hobart Donovan while appearing on The Buster Brown Program on radio. He was the show's main writer and had also written The Buster Brown comic book. Foray and Donovan were married from 1955 until Donovan's death in 1976.[40] She had no children by either marriage.
In 1973, Foray was an organizer of a meat boycott in response to President Nixon's freezing of meat (and other) prices.[41] As a result of this, Foray was included in the Master list of Nixon's political opponents, commonly known as Nixon's Enemies List.[42][43][44]
Death
editForay died at a hospital in Los Angeles, California, on July 26, 2017, at the age of 99. She had been in declining health since an automobile accident in 2015.[19][45]
Credits
editRadio
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circa 1937–1939 | Lady Make Believe | Host | She also wrote the episodes |
| 1944–1952 | The Buster Brown Program | Midnight the Cat, Old Grandie | |
| 1945–1947 | Smile Time | Various characters | |
| 1946 | Cavalcade of America | Mary Anne Clark | "Danger: Women at Work" |
| Let George Do It | Mrs. Hutchinson | "Cousin Jeff and the Pigs" | |
| 1946; 1948–1950 | The Lux Radio Theatre | Additional voices | "Coney Island Repeat" "Mother Wore Tights" "Wabash Avenue" |
| 1947 | The Life of Riley | Secretary | "Riley Enrolls at Pip Instead of UCLA" |
| 1947–1950 | The Jimmy Durante Show | Various characters | |
| 1948 | NBC University Theatre | Cunégonde | "Candide" |
| 1949 | Command Performance | The Granny | |
| Screen Directors Playhouse | Mother Zombie | "The Ghost Breakers" | |
| 1950 | The Adventures of Philip Marlowe | Stewardess, Receptionist | "The Last Wish" |
| 1952 | Amos 'n' Andy | Chiquita | "Leroy's Oil Stock" |
| 1953 | Stand by for Crime | Jimmy, the paperboy | "Queenie's 10,000 Dollar Alibi" |
| 1954 | Rocky Fortune | Linda, Miss Fabian | "The Museum Murder" |
| Our Miss Brooks | Mrs. Thundercloud | "Bartering With Chief Thundercloud" | |
| 1956–1957 | CBS Radio Workshop | Amy Lesley, Convention Secretary, Edwina, Gladys Farley, Grocery Clerk, Listener #2, Rhoda Mae Flogg, Temperamental Actress, Vess Neff | 4 episodes |
| 1957 | The Stan Freberg Show | Various characters | |
| 1979 | Sears Radio Theater | Spanish Lady on the Street | "Voodoo Lady" |
| 2007 | Adventures in Odyssey | Madge | "The Other Side of the Glass, Part 1" |
Film
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | The Egg Cracker Suite | Oswald the Lucky Rabbit | Voice role Universal Short |
| The Unbearable Bear | Sleepwalking Wife Bear | Voice role Merrie Melodies Short | |
| 1946 | The Lonesome Stranger | Little Orphan Fanny | Voice role Live action short |
| 1950 | Cinderella | Lucifer | |
| 1951 | Get Rich Quick | Mrs. Geef, Additional voices | Goofy short |
| Car of Tomorrow | Fashion Car announcer, Talking Turn Signal | MGM short | |
| 1952 | Trick or Treat | Witch Hazel | Donald Duck short |
| Lambert the Sheepish Lion | Mrs. Sheep | ||
| One Cab's Family | Receptionist, Nurse, Mary the Mother Cab, Tex[46] | MGM short | |
| How to Be a Detective | The Dame | Goofy short | |
| 1953 | Little Johnny Jet | Mary | MGM short |
| Peter Pan | Squaw | She also served as the model for one of the mermaids | |
| Father's Day Off | Goofy Jr. | Goofy short | |
| Father's Week-end | Mrs. Geef | ||
| 1954 | The Farm of Tomorrow | Hen, Female announcer | MGM short |
| Pet Peeve | Joan | Tom and Jerry short | |
| 1955 | Mouse for Sale | ||
| Red Riding Hoodwinked | Red Riding Hood's Grandmother, Red Riding Hood | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| This Is a Life? | Granny | Bugs Bunny short | |
| A Kiddie's Kitty | Suzanne's Mother | Sylvester short | |
| The First Bad Man | Cavewomen[46] | MGM short | |
| 1956 | The Flying Sorceress | Joan, Witch | Tom and Jerry short |
| Broom-Stick Bunny | Witch Hazel | Bugs Bunny short | |
| Tweet and Sour | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| Tugboat Granny | |||
| Get Lost | Knothead and Splinter | Woody Woodpecker short | |
| Rocket-bye Baby | Martha Wilbur, Old Lady, P.A. voice | Merrie Melodies short | |
| Deduce, You Say | Alfie's Girlfriend, The Shropshire Slasher's Mother | Daffy Duck short | |
| 1957 | Red Riding Hoodlum | Knothead and Splinter | Woody Woodpecker short |
| International Woodpecker | |||
| Boston Quackie | Mary | Daffy Duck short uncredited | |
| Mucho Mouse | Joan | Tom and Jerry short | |
| Greedy for Tweety | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| Rabbit Romeo | Millicent | Bugs Bunny short uncredited | |
| The Snow Queen | Court Raven, Old robber, Old Fairy | 1959 English dub | |
| Tom's Photo Finish | Joan | Tom and Jerry short | |
| The Unbearable Salesman | Knothead and Splinter | Woody Woodpecker short | |
| 1958 | Don't Axe Me | Elmer Fudd's Wife | Daffy Duck short |
| Hare-Less Wolf | Charles Wolf's Wife | Bugs Bunny short | |
| A Pizza Tweety Pie | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| The Vanishing Duck | Joan | Tom and Jerry short | |
| A Bird in a Bonnet | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| 1959 | Apes of Wrath | Mama Ape | Bugs Bunny short |
| A Broken Leghorn | Miss Prissy | Foghorn Leghorn short | |
| China Jones | Dragon Lady | Daffy Duck short uncredited | |
| A Witch's Tangled Hare | Witch Hazel | Bugs Bunny short | |
| Loopy De Loop | Red Riding Hood, Grandma | "Wolf Hounded" | |
| Goldimouse and the Three Cats | Narrator, Mother Cat, Goldimouse | uncredited | |
| 1960 | Trip for Tat | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short |
| 1961 | The Last Hungry Cat | ||
| 1962 | Quackodile Tears | Daffy Duck's Wife | uncredited |
| Honey's Money | The Wealthy Widow | Yosemite Sam short | |
| The Jet Cage | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| 1964 | Hawaiian Aye Aye | ||
| 1965 | Of Feline Bondage | Jerry's Fairy Godmother | Tom and Jerry short |
| The Year of the Mouse | Second Mouse | ||
| 1966 | A-Haunting We Will Go | Witch Hazel | Daffy Duck short |
| The Man Called Flintstone | Tanya | ||
| 1967 | Congratulations, It's Pink | Baby | Pink Panther short |
| 1970 | The Phantom Tollbooth | Faintly Macabre the Witch, Princess of Pure Reason, Voice of Ralph | |
| 1975 | Jaws | Michael Brody, Sean Brody | ADR work |
| 1981 | The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie | Granny | |
| 1982 | Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Granny / Mother Gorilla / Goldimouse / Mrs. Sylvester / Jack's Mother | Archive footage |
| 1983 | Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island | Granny, Miss Prissy, Sylvester's wife | |
| The Smurfic Games | Jokey Smurf | TV movie | |
| 1984 | Strong Kids, Safe Kids | Jokey Smurf, Pac-Baby | Video Documentary Short |
| 1985 | Molly and the Skywalkerz: Happily Ever After | Ms. Macolla (voice) | Direct-to-video film |
| 1987 | Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers | Poor Old Witch | TV movie |
| Daws Butler: Voice Magician | Herself | ||
| DTV Monster Hits | Hazel the Witch, Colleen | TV movie | |
| 1988 | Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons | Herself | TV movie documentary |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Wheezy, Lena Hyena | ||
| Daffy Duck's Quackbusters | Uncredited | ||
| 1989 | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Librarian | 1992 English dub |
| Molly and the Skywalkerz: Two Daddies? | Ms. Macolla (voice) | Direct-to-video film | |
| 1990 | DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp | Mrs. Featherby | |
| Of Moose and Men: The Rocky & Bullwinkle Story | Herself / Rocky | TV movie | |
| 1991 | Problem Child 2 | Voice of puppet | Live-action film |
| 1992 | Adventures in Odyssey: A Fine Feathered Frenzy | Evelynn Harcourt | Video |
| The Magical World of Chuck Jones | Herself | Documentary | |
| Boris and Natasha: The Movie | Autograph Woman | TV movie | |
| 1993 | I Yabba-Dabba Do! | Additional voices | |
| 1994 | Thumbelina | Queen Tabitha | |
| 1992 | Adventures in Odyssey: Electric Christmas | Evelynn Harcourt | Video |
| 1996 | Space Jam | Granny, Witch Hazel | |
| 1998 | Mulan | Grandmother Fa | |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle | Rocky J. Squirrel, Animated Natasha Fatale, The Narrator's Mother | Voice role
Live-action/animated film |
| Tweety's High-Flying Adventure | Granny | Direct-to-video film | |
| 2003 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Live-action/animated film | |
| Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure | Video | ||
| Looney Tunes: Reality Check | |||
| Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction | Granny / Witch Hazel | ||
| Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes | Herself | Video Documentary | |
| 2003–2006 | Behind the Tunes | Herself | Video Documentary Shorts: Short Fuse Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam / Putty Problems and Canary Rows / Blanc Expressions / A Hunting We Will Go – Chuck Jones' Wabbit Season Twilogy / Wild Lines – The Art of Voice Acting |
| 2004 | Mulan II | Grandmother Fa | Direct-to-video film |
| 2006 | The Legend of Sasquatch | Momma Sasquach | |
| Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas | Granny as The Ghost of Christmas Past | Direct-to-video film | |
| 2008 | Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices | Herself | Video Documentary |
| I Smurf the Smurfs! | Herself / Jokey Smurf | Video Documentary Short | |
| 2011 | I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat | Granny | Theatrical Short |
| 2013 | I Know That Voice | Herself | Documentary |
| The One and Only June Foray | |||
| 2014 | Rocky and Bullwinkle | Rocky, Fearless Leader's Mother | Direct-to-video short; Final role. Planned for Theatrical Release along with Mr. Peabody & Sherman. |
| 2021 | Tom & Jerry | Jerry | Archival voice recordings |
Live action
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Sabaka | Marku Ponjoy, The High Priestess of Sabaka | |
| The Ray Milland Show | Myrna | Episode: "Fashion Model" | |
| Meet Mr. McNutley | |||
| 1955–1956 | The Johnny Carson Show | Various characters | |
| 1957 | I Love Lucy | Voice of the Dog | Episode: "Little Ricky Gets a Dog"[47] |
| 1966 | Death of a Salesman | Jenny | Television film |
| Bewitched | Diaper Dan Baby / Baby Gladys Kravitz / Baby Darrin Stephens | 2 episodes | |
| 1967 | Green Acres | Carmelita | Episode: "Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked" |
| 1969 | The Brady Bunch | Sandra | Episode: "A Clubhouse Is Not a Home" |
| 1969–1970 | Get Smart | Impostor 99's 'real' voice / Bus Station Announcer Voice / Doll | 3 episodes |
| 1971–1972 | Curiosity Shop | Aarthur the Aardvark, Hermione Giraffe, Nostalgia Elephant, additional voices [48] | 17 episodes |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie | Girls Voices in Play | Episode: "Ma's Holiday" |
| 1984 | The Duck Factory | Herself | "The Annies" |
| 2000 | Great Performances | Episode: "Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens – A Life in Animation" |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | The Woody Woodpecker Show | Splinter / Knothead | |
| 1959 | The Huckleberry Hound Show | Mom | "Bear on a Picnic" (Yogi Bear segment) |
| 1959–1964 | The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (aggregated title) | Rocky J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Additional Characters | Original titles: "Rocky and His Friends", "The Bullwinkle Show" |
| 1959–1960; 1971–1972 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Radio Voices, Grandma Duck, Queen, Ma Beagle, Daisy Duck, additional voices | "Duck Flies Coop" "This Is Your Life Donald Duck" "Disney on Parade" "Dad, Can I Borrow the Car" |
| 1959 | The Flintstones | Betty Rubble | Flintstones pilot The Flagstones (uncredited) |
| 1960–1961 | Mister Magoo | Mother Magoo | |
| 1960–1962 | The Bugs Bunny Show | Granny / Witch Hazel | |
| 1961 | The Yogi Bear Show | ||
| 1961–1962 | The Alvin Show | Daisy Bell, Reporter, Additional voices | |
| Calvin and the Colonel | Woman, Thief, Nancy, Chiquita, Operator | "The Television Job" "Cloakroom" "Calvin's Glamour Girl" "Nephew Newton's Fortune" | |
| 1963 | Fractured Flickers | Various characters | |
| Beetle Bailey | Bunny | ||
| The Twilight Zone | Talky Tina | "Living Doll" uncredited | |
| 1963–1964 | The Flintstones | Grandma Dynamite, Peaches, Nurse #1, Nurse #2, Granny Hatrock, Secretary, Dinosaur #2, Monkey | "Foxy Grandma" "The Dress Rehearsal" "The Bedrock Hillbillies" |
| 1964 | The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo | ||
| 1964 | Gilligan's Island | the voice of Alice McNeil on the radio | Season 1 Episode 4: "Goodnight, Sweet Skipper" |
| 1964 | The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) | Sport Sharewood | The Bewitchin' Pool |
| 1966 | The Road Runner Show | Various Characters | |
| Dr, Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Cindy Lou Who | TV special | |
| 1966–1969 | The Super 6 | Bubbles | |
| 1967 | Lost in Space | Gundermar | Voice "The Questing Beast" Uncredited |
| Birdman and the Galaxy Trio | Medusa | "The Empress of Evil" | |
| George of the Jungle | Ursula, Marigold | ||
| 1967–1968 | Off to See the Wizard | Dorothy Gale, Wicked Witch of the West | |
| 1968 | The Inspector | Edna, Melody Mercurochrome | "Le Ball and Chain Gang", "French Freud" |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour | various characters | ||
| The Little Drummer Boy | Aaron's Mother | TV special | |
| Mouse on the Mayflower | Ms. Charity Blake, various female pilgrims | ||
| 1969 | The Pink Panther Show | additional voices | episode: Pinto Pink/Le Pig-al Patrol/In The Pink |
| Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Gypsy Fortune Teller | "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts" | |
| The Pogo Special Birthday Special | Pogo, Hepzibah | TV special | |
| Frosty the Snowman | Teacher, Karen, Additional voices | TV short; was replaced by Suzanne Davidson as Karen in later airings and by Greg Thomas as Karen's friends | |
| Here Comes the Grump | The Witch | ″Witch Is Witch?″ | |
| 1969–1970 | The Dudley Do-Right Show | Nell Fenwick, Additional voices | TV series |
| 1970 | Horton Hears a Who! | Jane Kangaroo, Mother Who, Baby Who, Additional voices | TV short |
| 1972 | The New Scooby-Doo Movies | Mrs. Baker | ″The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair″ |
| The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't | TV special | ||
| 1974 | These Are the Days | ||
| 1975 | The White Seal | Mackah | TV special |
| The Hoober-Bloob Highway | Additional voices | ||
| Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Nagaina the Cobra, Teddy's Mom, Darzee's Wife | ||
| Yankee Doodle Cricket | Marsha the Lightning Bug / Queen Bee | ||
| 1976 | Mowgli's Brothers | Mother Wolf | |
| The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show | Various Characters | ||
| The Sylvester & Tweety Show | |||
| 1977 | Bugs Bunny's Easter Special | Granny | TV special |
| 1978 | Fabulous Funnies | Broom-Hilda, Oola, Hans, Additional voices | |
| Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special | Witch Hazel | TV short | |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show | Various Characters | ||
| Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper | Raggedy Ann and Comet | TV special | |
| 1979 | Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile | Raggedy Ann, Aunt Agatha, Neighbor | Credited as Mrs. Hobart Donavan for Aunt Agatha |
| Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales | Mrs. Claus, Clyde Bunny | TV special | |
| Bugs Bunny's Valentine Special | Additional voices | ||
| Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet | Millicent / Attractive Rabbit | ||
| The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special | Granny | ||
| 1980 | Sunshine Porcupine | Honey Bunny, Amp Bamp, Rabbit Robot, Bucky, Bunny 2, Bunny 4 | TV Special |
| 1980–1982 | Heathcliff | Grandma, Sonja, Crazy Shirley, Iggy, Marcy, Muggsy, Princess | |
| 1981 | Faeries | Hag | TV special |
| 1981–1983 | Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends | Aunt May Parker, Crime Computer, Judy | |
| 1981 | A Chipmunk Christmas | Mrs. Waterford / Mrs. Claus | TV special |
| 1981–1989 | The Smurfs | Jokey Smurf, Mother Nature, Additional voices | |
| 1982 | The Incredible Hulk | Additional Voices | |
| 1982 | My Smurfy Valentine | TV special | |
| The Smurfs Springtime Special | Jokey Smurf / Mother Nature | ||
| The Adventures of Curious George | Narrator | ||
| The Smurfs Christmas Special | Jokey Smurf | TV special | |
| 1983–1984 | Alvin and the Chipmunks | Additional Voices | |
| 1985 | Pound Puppies | Mother Superior, Old Woman | TV special |
| The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour | Various characters | ||
| A Chipmunk Reunion | Vinny | Uncredited | |
| The Jetsons | Lady at Gas Station, Telephone Operator | "Little Bundle of Trouble" | |
| 1985–1991 | Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears | Grammi Gummi, Dragon, Additional voices | |
| 1986 | The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show | Various characters | |
| 1986–1987 | Teen Wolf | Grandma Howard, Mrs. Seslick | |
| My Little Pony (TV series) | Queen Bumble | ||
| 1986–1988 | Foofur | Additional voices | |
| 1987 | Tis The Season to Be Smurfy | Jokey Smurf | TV special |
| 1987–1988 | The Flintstone Kids | Grandma Cavemom | 3 episodes |
| 1987–1990 | DuckTales | Ma Beagle / Magica De Spell / Mrs. Featherby / additional voices | |
| 1988 | Denver, the Last Dinosaur | Bertha | |
| 1988–1989 | A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | Constance McSnack / Granny Sweetwater | |
| 1989 | Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters | Mrs. Belle Dweeb | 2 episodes |
| 1990 | Tom and Jerry Kids Show | Witch | "Doom Manor" |
| The Simpsons | Happy Little Elf, Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service Receptionist | "Some Enchanted Evening" | |
| 1990–1991 | Tiny Toon Adventures | Granny | |
| 1990–1993 | Garfield and Friends | Various characters | |
| 1991 | Garfield Gets a Life | Mona, Librarian | TV special |
| Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes | Additional voices | ||
| Married... with Children | Voice of Scary Mary | Episode "God's Shoes" | |
| 1992 | The Plucky Duck Show | Granny | |
| 1993 | All-New Dennis the Menace | Martha Wilson | |
| Rugrats | Blocky, Svetlana the Spy | "Sour Pickles" | |
| 2 Stupid Dogs | Red Riding Hood's Grandmother | 2 episodes | |
| Bonkers | Ma Barker | "Calling All Cars" | |
| 1994 | The Ren and Stimpy Show | Poopy and Explodey | "Stimpy's Cartoon Show" |
| 1995 | Weird Science | Baby Ruth, Tammy | Voice role Live-action television series |
| Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery | Witch Hazel | TV special | |
| 1995–2000 | The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries | Granny, Witch Hazel | Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production (1996–1997) |
| 1996 | Cave Kids | Rat | "Soap Bubble Dreams" |
| The Bugs n' Daffy Show | Various Characters | ||
| 1996–2003 | Dexter's Laboratory | Darbie High Priestess | "Star Check: Unconvertional" |
| 2001 | Family Guy | Rocky J. Squirrel | "The Thin White Line" |
| 2001–2006 | Baby Looney Tunes | Granny | |
| 2005 | The Powerpuff Girls | Madame Argentina | "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" |
| Duck Dodgers | Lezah the Wicked | "M.M.O.R.P.D." | |
| 2009 | Random! Cartoons | Mall Walker, Old Man #1, Man at Garbage Can, Woman | 2 Episodes |
| The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack | Ruth, Kid, Kelly, Kelly's Mother, K'nuckles' Kindergarten Teacher | "Bubbie's Tummy Ache" "Flapjack Goes to a Party" | |
| 2011 | The Garfield Show | Mrs. Cauldron, Additional voices | Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program (2012) |
| 2011–2014 | The Looney Tunes Show | Granny |
Video games
edit| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Lego Island | Mama Brickolini, Polly Gone, Parrot |
| 1998 | Rocky and Bullwinkle's Know-It-All Quiz Game | Rocky, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick[49] |
| Mulan Animated Storybook | Grandmother Fa[49] | |
| 1999 | Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time | Granny, Witch Hazel |
| 2000 | Donald Duck Going Quackers | Magica De Spell |
| Looney Tunes: Space Race | Granny | |
| Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters | ||
| 2003 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | |
| 2007 | Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal | |
| 2008 | Disney Think Fast | Magica De Spell |
| 2013 | DuckTales: Remastered |
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Further reading
editJune Foray with Mark Evanier and Earl Kress. Did You Grow Up with Me, Too?: The Autobiography of June Foray. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN 1593934610
External links
edit
- June Foray at IMDb
- June Foray at the TCM Movie Database
- June Foray discography at Discogs
- "Interview with June Foray". Famous Interview. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.
- June Foray at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television