The unsurpassable voiceover artist June Foray has died at the age of 99. From Hollywood Reporter:
June Foray, the famed “first lady of voice actors†whose repertoire of characters include Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Pottsylvanian spy Natasha Fatale, Tweety Bird’s owner Granny and a sinister talking doll, has died. She was 99.
Foray, who worked alongside such animated legends as Mel Blanc, Chuck Jones, Stan Freberg and Jay Ward during her unseen yet spectacular eight-decade career, died Wednesday according to close friend Dave Nimitz who posted a notice of her passing on Facebook.
Over the years she gave voices to Warner Bros. Granny and Witch Hazel, Betty Rubble, both Rocket J. Squirrel and Natasha Fatale, Talky Tina of a chilling Twilight Zone episode, Cindy Lou Who, and, quite literally, thousands of others, working well into the 21st century. She won a Grammy, an Emmy, the Television Academy Governor’s Award, and multiple Annies (animation awards). There is a June Foray Award in the Annies for “those who have made a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation”.
We shall not see her like again.
Try to find the interview by Joe Piscopo of Rocky and Bullwinkle with Ms. Foray providing Rocky’s voice and Bill Scott Bullwinkle’s. I’ve tried to find it but haven’t succeeded. It’s a gem.
