GINNY TYLER DIES
Disney Legend and REPS’ Friend Ginny Tyler passed away this morning July 13th, 2012.
When the original “Mickey Mouse Club” was re-edited and repackaged for syndication in 1962, Tyler was appointed Head Mouseketeer, live from Disneyland where she hosted a live 15-minute daily segment of the program. Children could also register as “Official Mouseketeers,” complete with membership card, and Ginny, often in the company of Roy Williams or Jimmie Dodd, was on hand for greetings and autographs. In 2006 she was named a Disney Legend.
She first appeared before a radio microphone sometime in the
1930s and co-hosted, alongside Al Priddy the radio show Make Believe Island on
KOL station. The show was moved to television, on KOMO-TV and renamed Magic
Island by the early 1950s.
Tyler began to work more and more offscreen as a voice
artist, appearing in several cartoons and narrating vinyl recordings of Disney
films like Bambi and Babes in Toyland. She provided the voice of an amorous
squirrel who falls in love with the young King Arthur (while he is in the form
of a male squirrel) in The Sword in the Stone. She sang the voices of several
barnyard animals in the "Jolly Holiday" sequence of Mary Poppins.
From 1960 to 1962, she also performed several voices for the
series Davey and Goliath, including Davey's mother and his sister Sally. She
was replaced by Nancy Wible, who had a similar voice (from both of their works
in other series), but would use a louder tone than Ginny. The two played roles
of carhops on the Flintstones episode "The Drive Inn" (made around
the same time as the first episodes of Davey & Goliath) in 1960. In 1964, Tyler
appeared as the Genie in several performances of Aladdin and His Genie for the
Pasadena Playhouse. In 1968, she was Flirtacia on Hanna-Barbera's The
Adventures of Gulliver. She also played Jan on Space Ghost and Sue Richards,
the Invisible Woman in the 1978 television series Fantastic Four. Although
Tyler later retired and moved back to Seattle, she still did some recording for
local productions.
Ginny was a featured guest at the 2007 REPS SHOWCASE Old Time Radio Convention in Seattle where she played the title role of Pinocchio in a re-creation of the 1939 Lux Radio Theater version of the Disney movie. On the same evening Ginny played Mrs. Nussbaum in a re-enactment of the Fred Allen show.
Filmography
Son of Flubber
(1963) - Baby Walter (voice, uncredited)
The Sword in the
Stone (1963) - Little Girl Squirrel (voice)
Mary Poppins
(1964) - Lambs (voice, uncredited)
Winnie the Pooh
and the Honey Tree (1966, Short) - Bees (voice, uncredited)
Doctor Dolittle
(1967) - Polynesia (voice, uncredited)
The Adventures of
the Polar Cubs (1993, English dub of 1979 anime)
Audio recordings
Bambi (1960)
Babes in Toyland
Lady and the Tramp
(1962)
Hans Brinker
More Mother Goose
(1962)
More Jungle Book
(1968)
Television
The Gumby Show
(1957–1960)
The Huckleberry
Hound Show (1959)
The Loretta Young
Show (1960)
The Flintstones
(1960) - Carhop (voice)
The Jack Benny
Program (1961)
Davey and Goliath
(1961–1962) - Sally Hansen / Elaine Hansen / Kitten (voice)
The Lucy Show
(1962–1964) - The cockatiel / Sheep (voice)
The New Casper
Cartoon Show (1963) - Wendy / Wildcat / Witch (voice, uncredited)
Mister Ed
(1963–1965) - Parrot / Tootsie / Claudia (voice)
Space Ghost and
Dino Boy (1966–1967) - Jan / Black Widow (voice)
The Adventures of
Gulliver (1968) - Flirtacia (voice)
Cattanooga Cats
(1969)
ABC Afterschool
Specials (1972) - Bird Calls (voice)
Jeannie (1973) -
(voice)
Devlin (1974) -
Aunt Martha / Polly
The Oddball Couple
(1975) - (voice)
The Jeffersons
(1976) - Police Dispatcher
Fred Flintstone
and Friends (1977) - (voice)
The New Fantastic
Four (1978) - Sue Richards / The Invisible Girl (voice)
Casper the
Friendly Ghost: He Ain't Scary, He's Our Brother (1979, TV Movie) - Lovella /
Dowager / Rural Lady (voice)
Scooby-Doo and
Scrappy-Doo (1979)
Wildfire (1986) -
(voice)
Brer Rabbit's
Christmas Carol (1992, TV Movie) - Miz Possum (voice) (final film role)
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