Heather North obit

Heather North, Voice of Daphne on 'Scooby-Doo,' Dies at 71

She was not on the list.

Heather North and Jack Chaplain starred in the 1965 family drama 'Git!'

The actress also starred on the soap opera 'Days of Our Lives' and with Kurt Russell in 'The Barefoot Executive.'

Heather North, the longtime voice of the danger-prone Daphne Blake on TV's Scooby-Doo, has died. She was 71.

North died Nov. 30 at her home in Studio City after a long illness, family friend Jodie Mann told The Hollywood Reporter.

Her husband, H. Wesley Kenney, the Emmy Award-winning producer and director of soap operas who helmed every episode of the tumultuous 1974-75 season of All in the Family, died in January 2015.

North and Kenney had met on the set of Days of Our Lives and were married in 1971. She had played Sandy Horton for a few years on the NBC daytime serial.

A native of Pasadena, North also starred as Kurt Russell's love interest in Disney's The Barefoot Executive (1971), about a chimpanzee who can predict which TV shows will be a success on the air.

North was first heard as Daphne in September 1970 on the second-season opener of the CBS/Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning hit Scooby Doo, Where Are You!. (Stefanianna Christopherson had voiced Daphne during the first season.)

North then returned for The New Scooby-Doo Movies in 1972-73 and in many other incarnations of the cartoon through 2003.

North also appeared on such TV shows as Mr. Novak, Gidget, The Fugitive, The Monkees, My Three Sons and Adam-12; on the big screen in Git! (1965) and I Love My Wife (1970); and on Broadway in the short-lived 1967 comedy The Girl in the Freudian Slip.

Survivors include her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Stephanie; stepdaughter Nina and her husband Brent; stepson Wes and his wife Leslie; and granddaughter Jocelyn. Another stepdaughter, Kara, died just a week ago.

A memorial service is set for 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday at First Christian Church in Studio City.

Filmography

Film and Television

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1963      My Three Sons Sally       1 episode: Caged Fury

1965      Karen    Carla      1 episode: Good Neighbor Policy

1965      Mr. Novak           Felicia   1 episode: Faculty Follies: Part 2

1965      Gidget   Pokey    1 episode: In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust

1965      Paradise Bay       Kitty Morgan      Unknown episodes

1965      Git!        Elaine    Feature film

1967      The Fugitive        Marie Diamond                 1 episode: The Breaking of the Habit

1967      The Monkees    Wendy / Girl       1 episode: The Prince and the Pauper

1967      My Three Sons Gretchen             1 episode: My Son, the Bullfighter

1967-1972          Days of Our Lives              Sandy Horton     Unknown episodes

1969      Green Acres       Kathy Baxter       1 episode: Oliver's Schoolgirl Crush

1970      Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!      Daphne Blake    8 episodes (season 2)

1970      I Love My Wife Betty     Feature film

1971      Love, American Style      Ellen      1 episode: Love and the Only Child segment

1971      The Barefoot Executive Jennifer Scott     Feature film

1971      Ironside                Lori Stockton      1 episode: Lesson in Terror

1971      Adam-12              Shirley Young     1 episode: The Dinosaur

1972      Ghost Story (aka Circle of Fear) Dana Evans         1 episode: Elegy for a Vampire

1972–73               The New Scooby-Doo Movies     Daphne Blake    24 episodes

1973      The Wonderful World of Disney                 Jennifer Scott     2 episodes: The Barefoot Executive (Parts 1 & 2)

1974      Doc Elliot             Amy Oliver          1 episode: The Carrier

1976      The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour              Daphne Blake    16 episodes (Scooby-Doo), 3 episodes (Dynomutt)

1976–78               The Scooby-Doo Show   Daphne Blake    40 episodes:

16 episodes – as part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976)

8 episodes – as part of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977)

16 episodes – as and part of Scooby's All-Stars (1978)

1977–80               Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels   Additional Voices             39 episodes

1978      Dynomutt, Dog Wonder                Daphne Blake    3 episodes: Everyone Hyde!, What Now, Lowbrow?, The Wizard of Ooze

1979      Scooby Goes Hollywood                Daphne Blake    Television special

1979–80               Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo     Daphne Blake    16 episodes

1983      The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show                Daphne Blake    13 episodes (26 segments)

1984      The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries                Daphne Blake    13 episodes (26 segments)

1985      The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo     Daphne Blake    13 episodes

1985–86               Scooby's Mystery Funhouse        Daphne Blake    21 episodes (various segments: reruns of Scooby & Scrappy-Doo shorts)

1997      Johnny Bravo     Daphne Blake    1 episode: Bravo Dooby Doo

2003      Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire        Daphne Blake    Direct-to-video film

2003      Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico               Daphne Blake    Direct-to-video film