Julie Bennett obit

Julie Bennett, 'Yogi Bear' Voice Actress, Dies From Coronavirus Complications at 88

She was not on the list.

She played the parasol-loving Southern belle Cindy Bear in cartoons and did the talking for a Barbie doll.

Julie Bennett, who provided the voice of love interest Cindy Bear on Yogi Bear cartoons for nearly three decades, has died. She was 88.

Bennett died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to talent agent and friend Mark Scroggs.

After appearing onscreen in such series as The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Adventures of Superman, Leave It to Beaver, Dragnet and Highway Patrol, Bennett found her niche as a voiceover artist.

Her animation career began with "Fractured Fairy Tales" in 1960 on The Bullwinkle Show, and she voiced Cindy Bear for the first time a year later on The Yogi Bear Show, which featured Daws Butler doing his best Art Carney impersonation as Jellystone Park's most famous resident.

Bennett gave the parasol-loving Cindy a Southern accent and played the character through 1988 on The New Yogi Bear Show.

She also voiced Aunt May on a 1997 Spider-Man animated series, did the talking for a Barbie doll and worked in films including the Judy Garland-starring Gay Purr-ee (1962) and Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966).

Filmography

Films

Year       Title       Roles     Notes

1955      Illegal    Ms. Worth (uncredited)               

1961      The Mouse on 57th Street                           

1961      Strangled Eggs   Miss Prissy (voice)           

1962      Loopy De Loop Female Skunk (voice)      Common Scents theatrical short

1962      The Slick Chick   Widow Hen (voice)         

1962      Louvre Come Back to Me!             Penelope Pussycat, Mona Lisa (voice)     

1962      Gay Purr-ee        Provence lady (voice)    

1963      I Was a Teenage Thumb                Prunhilda (voice)             

1963      The Unmentionables      Phone Operator (voice)

1963      Transylvania 6-5000        Agatha, Emily (voice)     

1964      Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!              Cindy Bear (voice)           

1966      What's Up, Tiger Lily?     Vocal Assist (voice)         

1967      King Kong Escapes           Lt. Susan Watson, Madame Piranha (voice)           English version only

1970      Sole Survivor      Amanda (uncredited)    

1972      Tijuana Toads    Flora (voice)       Frog Jog theatrical short

1986      Crossings             1st Lady               

1988      Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears                Cindy Bear (voice)           

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters           Agatha and Emily (voice)              

Television

Year       Title       Roles     Notes

1949–1952          The Clock                            

1946–1952          Lights Out                           

1950–1951          Starlight Theatre                             

1950–1956          Big Town                             

1952–1953          Steve Randall     Audrey Clayton

1953      The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show               Mimi Watson    

1953–1955          Lux Video Theatre            Edith / Miss Williams     

1954      I Led 3 Lives        Comrade Munson           

1954      The Ford Television Theatre         Receptionist      

1954      Public Defender                Jane Stevens     

1955      The Farmer from Monticello        Martha Jefferson            

1955      The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater                          

1955–1957          Matinee Theatre                             

1956      Superman           Sometimes Mabel           

1956–1959          Dragnet                Jan Petrie           

1957      Leave It to Beaver            Waitress             

1957      Highway Patrol Mrs. Wright       

1959      The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen                               

1959–1960          The Quick Draw McGraw Show Gisele, Sagebrush Sal (voice)      

1960–1962          The Bullwinkle Show       Fisherman's Wife, Little Princess, Princess Irene (voice)   segment Fractured Fairy Tales

1960      The Huckleberry Hound Show     Brigette (voice)

1960      The Bugs Bunny Show    Additional voices (voice)              

1960      Mister Magoo    Daughter (voice)              

1961      The Best of the Post        Rosalie Blagden                

1961      The Mouse on 57th Street            Customer (voice)             

1961      Strangled Eggs   Miss Prissy (voice)           

1961      The Yogi Bear Show         Cindy Bear (voice)           

1962      The Donna Reed Show   Lady Customer

1965      The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo   Snow White (voice)        

1963      McHale's Navy   Nippon Nancy (voice)    

1964      The Magilla Gorilla Show               Various Characters (voice)           

1967      The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure       Lois Lane (voice)              

1967–1970          Get Smart            Zachary, Stewardess      

1968      The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour         Various Characters (voice)           

1968      The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn              Princess (voice)

1968      The Banana Splits Adventure Hour           Queen, Constance (voice)            segment The Three Musketeers

1969      Cattanooga Cats               Kitty Jo, Chessie (voice)

1969      The F.B.I.             Katie Singer       

1969–1970          Dragnet 1967     Susan Fowler, Evelyn Gentry, Jan Petrie, Angela Tigley    

1970      Love, American Style      Carol      segment Love and the V.I.P. Restaurant

1970      The Bold Ones: The New Doctors               Eve Parker          

1971      The Funky Phantom        Various roles (voice)      

1971      The Bob Hope Show        Herself

1973      Jeannie                 Various Characters (voice)           

1973      Yogi's Gang         Cindy Bear (voice)           

1974      Gunsmoke          Kate      

1974      These Are the Days          Various Characters (voice)           

1974–1975          Adam-12              Angie Byrd, Ethel Pollard (voice)               

1977–1978          Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics Cindy Bear (voice)           

1977      Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels   Various Characters (voice)           

1977      Fred Flintstone and Friends          Various Characters (voice)           

1978      The All-New Popeye Hour            Additional voices             

1978      Dinky Dog            Monica (voice)

1979      Gulliver's Travels              Various Characters (voice)           

1981      Goliath Awaits   Sylvia King          

1984      The Mighty Orbots           Boo (voice)        

1986      The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show            Agatha, Emily (voice)     

1986      Yogi's Treasure Hunt       Cindy Bear and United Nations Speaker (voice)  

1986      The Real Ghostbusters   Cindy Crawford

1988      The New Yogi Bear Show               Cindy Bear          

1989      Moonlighting     Woman               

1990      Square One TV Sybil Divine        

1990      Thanksgiving Day              Julie      

1990      Mathnet              Sybil Divine        

1991      Garfield and Friends        Lola (voice)        

1995–1998          Spider-Man        Aunt May Parker (voice)                Seasons 3–5, after death of Linda Gary