June Foray, Virtuoso of Cartoon Voices, Notably Rocky’s, Dies at 99
She was number 163 on the list.
June Foray, an actress of a thousand voices, who portrayed
Rocky the flying squirrel and the fiendish spy Natasha Fatale on the wickedly
satirical animated adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle in the 1960s and myriad
other animated creatures and characters on television and film, died on
Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 99.
Her niece Lauren Marems confirmed the death.
Ms. Foray began her remarkable 85-year career playing an
elderly woman in a radio drama in 1929 at age 12. She portrayed scores of radio
characters in the 1930s and ’40s. Over the next 60 years, she provided voices
for animated shorts, feature films and television shows, as well as record
albums, video games, even talking toys. Her last performance was as Rocky in a
2014 Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon produced by DreamWorks Animation.
Often compared to Mel Blanc, the cartoon virtuoso who
supplied the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, Ms. Foray cackled,
chirped, meowed and sometimes sang her way through nearly 300 animated
productions, often playing several parts at once with quick shifts of accent,
dialect and personality. Her work, unlike that of Mr. Blanc, was often
uncredited, particularly in her early years.
But her output was prodigious. While she was not well known
to the general public, the entertainment world called her the First Lady of
Animated Voicing. At 94, she became the oldest person to win an Emmy, cited for
her Mrs. Cauldron on “The Garfield Show,” and in 2013 she received an Emmy
Governors Award.
“June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc,” said Chuck Jones,
the legendary animator who proposed her star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. “Mel
Blanc was the male June Foray.”
On the big screen, she was Lucifer the cat in Walt Disney’s
“Cinderella” (1950), a mermaid and a squaw in “Peter Pan” (1953), and Wheezy
Weasel and Lena Hyena in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (1988). On television, she
was Cindy-Lou Who in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (1966); Ursula in “George
of the Jungle” (1967); and Aunt May Parker in “Spider-Man and His Amazing
Friends” (1981-83).
She also breathed sinister spirit into a doll in a memorable
1963 “Twilight Zone” episode, telling a little girl’s stepfather, played by
Telly Savalas, “My name is Talky Tina, and I’m going to kill you.”
Ms. Foray portrayed grannies, witches, a fortuneteller,
innocent girls, sultry femmes and menageries of anthropomorphic chipmunks,
cats, woodpeckers, mice, beagles and other cartoon characters in the adventures
of Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Mr. Magoo, Sylvester and Tweety, Yogi Bear, the
Flintstones, the Incredible Hulk, the Smurfs and the Simpsons. She also voiced Madge for the Adventures on Odyssey radio program.
But the cognoscenti said she was at her peak for Rocket J.
Squirrel (a. k. a. Rocky the flying squirrel) and his curvaceous adversary,
Natasha Fatale, on the proudly two-dimensional cliffhanger chronicles of “Rocky
and His Friends” (later “The Bullwinkle Show”) from 1959 to 1964. In other
segments, she played Nell Fenwick, the prim girlfriend of the handsome,
muddle-headed Mountie Dudley Do-Right.
In an era when the Cold War was heating up and the Red scare
turned everyone blue, the gifted voices of Ms. Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees
and William Conrad gave vivacity to Rocky, a plucky little rodent with an
aviator helmet, and his antlered, dimwitted moose pal (Mr. Scott) as they
battled the inept Slavic schemers Boris Badenov (Mr. Frees) and Natasha in
Frostbite Falls, Minn., a neverland where silliness and puns live forever.
There was plenty of action for the children, slam-bang
stories with standard animation gags like characters blowing up or falling out
of windows. But on another level, it was satire, parody and rapid-fire
wordplay. Dorson Belles warns his radio audience that invaders from outer space
are no joke and that everyone should panic. A mystery gas called “votane” turns
Democrats into Republicans, and vice versa.
“If you can’t believe what you read in the comic books,”
Rocky asks, “what can you believe?”
The Russified Natasha, a villain of many slinky disguises,
appears as an Indian princess, Bubbling Spring That Runs in the Meadow. “Call
me Bubbles,” she purrs.
No pun was too awful, no malaprop too shameless. Rocky
trained at Cedar Yorpantz Flying School. Bullwinkle’s alma mater was Wossamotta
U. A jeweled toy boat, the Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam, sailed across Veronica
Lake. “For a powerful magnate,” Rocky tells a tycoon, “you sure don’t pick up
things too quickly.” In one episode, the heroes track a monstrous whale, Maybe
Dick.
Besides matching wits with menacing Boris (“Keel Moose!”)
and Natasha (“Boris, dollink!”), Rocky and Bullwinkle battle metal-chomping
Moon Mice devouring America’s TV antennas. They discover the antigravitational
element Upsidasium. And the narrator (Mr. Conrad) solemnly urges fans to tune
in for the next exciting episode: “All in Fever Say Aye, or the Emotion Is
Carried,” “The Show Must Go On, or Give ’em the Acts,” and “Trans-Atlantic
Chicken, or Hens Across the Sea.”
After 150 episodes, first on ABC and then on NBC, the
series, created by Jay Ward and written by Mr. Scott and others, was canceled.
But it had a huge cult following. Network reruns aired until 1973 and again in
1981-82. Cable reruns ran through the 1990s. Tributes were held at film festivals.
The Walt Disney Company bought videocassette rights for $1 million. The shows
were syndicated in the United States, Australia, England and Japan.
PBS produced a documentary, “Of Moose and Men: The Rocky and
Bullwinkle Story” (1991), and Ms. Foray provided the voice of Rocky again in
“The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” (2000), a feature that combined live
action and computer animation. (Rene Russo played Natasha.)
“It seems we’re going
to corrupt another generation,” Ms. Foray told The New York Times.
June Lucille Forer was born in Springfield, Mass., on Sept.
18, 1917, to Maurice and Ida Forer. A high school speech teacher with a radio
program put her on the air.
After her family moved to Los Angeles, she wrote and acted
all the parts on her own radio show, “Lady Make Believe,” as a teenager and was
soon doing voice-overs for film studios. In the 1940s, she provided voices for
a live-action series of film shorts called “Speaking of Animals,” and appeared
on radio shows starring Danny Thomas, Steve Allen, Jimmy Durante, and the team
of Phil Harris and Alice Faye.
Her first marriage, to Bernard Barondess in 1941, ended in
divorce. In 1955, she married Hobart Donavan, who died in 1976.
Ms. Foray, who lived in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of
Los Angeles, leaves no immediate survivors. Her brother, Bert Forer, died in
recent years, and her sister, Geri Spagnolie, died this May.
She was heard on many recordings, including “St. George and
the Dragonet,” Stan Freberg’s blockbuster 1953 parody of “Dragnet” (which also
included her fellow cartoon voice artist Daws Butler), and in many Warner Bros.
cartoons — for which she was not credited because Mr. Blanc had exclusive
screen-credit rights.
In the 1970s, she was president of Asifa, the international
animated film society, which named an award in her honor. She taught voice
acting at the University of Southern California in the 1980s, and for decades
was a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She wrote two books: “Perverse, Adverse and Rottenverse”
(2006), a collection of humorous essays, and “Did You Grow Up With Me, Too? The
Autobiography of June Foray” (2009, with Mark Evanier and Earl Kress).
Providing voices for animation, she often said, was like
putting on a radio play. The cast stood around microphones with scripts and a
screen for visual cues, and played off one another: delivering gags, growls,
swoons, screams, pauses for effect, cries of pain, angry rebukes, sweet
endearments, coughs, shudders, sips, slurps, snickers, guffaws and an
occasional sneeze.
She followed the scripts, but with her own interpretations,
she told Tim Lawson and Alisa Persons for “The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who’s
Who of Cartoon Voice Actors” (2004).
“I think it’s an intuition that you have,” she said, “that
you can crawl into someone’s mind.”
Her acting credits:
Radio
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"
1946 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
1949 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"
1954 Rocky Fortune Linda, Miss Fabian "The Museum Murder"
1954 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
Year Title Role Notes
1938 Boy Meets Dog Dwarfs Voice role
Universal Short
Her acting credits:
Radio
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"
1946 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
1949 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"
1954 Rocky Fortune Linda, Miss Fabian "The Museum Murder"
1954 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
Year Title Role Notes
1938 Boy Meets Dog Dwarfs Voice role
Universal Short
1942 Saludos Amigos
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
Bacall to Arms Laurie Be-Cool, Mother in Law Voice role
Merrie Melodies Short
1950 Cinderella Lucifer the Cat
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
1952 Lambert the Sheepish Lion Mrs. Sheep
1952 How to Be a Detective The Dame Goofy short
1952 One Cab's Family Mary, Nurse MGM short
1953 Little Johnny Jet Mary MGM short
1953 Peter Pan Squaw She also served as the model for one of the mermaids
1953 Father's Day Off Goofy Jr. Goofy short
1953 Father's Week-end Mrs. Geef Goofy short
1954 Pet Peeve Joan Tom and Jerry short
uncredited
1954 The Farm of Tomorrow Hen, Female announcer MGM short
1955 Mouse for Sale Joan Tom and Jerry short
1955 Red Riding Hoodwinked Red Riding Hood's Grandmother, Red Riding Hood Sylvester and Tweety short
1955 This Is a Life? Granny Bugs Bunny short
1956 The Flying Sorceress Joan, Witch Tom and Jerry short
1956 Broom-Stick Bunny Witch Hazel Bugs Bunny short
1956 Tweet and Sour Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1956 Get Lost Knothead and Splinter Woody Woodpecker short
1956 Tugboat Granny Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1956 Rocket-bye Baby Martha Wilbur, Old Lady, P.A. voice Merrie Melodies short
1956 Deduce, You Say Alfie's Girlfriend, The Shropshire Slasher's Mother Daffy Duck short
1957 Red Riding Hoodlum Knothead and Splinter Woody Woodpecker short
1957 International Woodpecker Knothead and Splinter Woody Woodpecker short
1957 Boston Quackie Mary Daffy Duck short
uncredited
1957 Mucho Mouse Joan Tom and Jerry short
1957 Greedy for Tweety Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1957 Rabbit Romeo Millicent Bugs Bunny short
uncredited
1957 The Snow Queen Court Raven, Old robber, Old Fairy 1959 English dub
1957 Tom's Photo Finish Joan Tom and Jerry short
1957 The Unbearable Salesman Knothead and Splinter Woody Woodpecker short
1958 Don't Axe Me Elmer Fudd's Wife Daffy Duck short
1958 Hare-Less Wolf Charles Wolf's Wife Bugs Bunny short
1958 A Pizza Tweety Pie Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1958 The Vanishing Duck Joan Tom and Jerry short
1958 A Bird in a Bonnet Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1959 Apes of Wrath Mama Ape Bugs Bunny short
1959 A Broken Leghorn Miss Prissy Foghorn Leghorn short
1959 China Jones Dragon Lady Daffy Duck short
uncredited
1959 A Witch's Tangled Hare Witch Hazel Bugs Bunny short
1959 Loopy De Loop Red Riding Hood, Grandma "Wolf Hounded"
1959 Goldimouse and the Three Cats Narrator, Mother Cat, Goldimouse uncredited
1960 Trip for Tat Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1961 The Last Hungry Cat Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
uncredited
1962 Quackodile Tears Daffy Duck's Wife uncredited
1962 Honey's Money The Wealthy Widow Yosemite Sam short
1962 The Jet Cage Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1964 Hawaiian Aye Aye Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1965 Of Feline Bondage Jerry's Fairy Godmother Tom and Jerry short
1965 The Year of the Mouse Second Mouse Tom and Jerry short
1966 A-Haunting We Will Go Witch Hazel Daffy Duck short
1966 The Man Called Flintstone Tanya
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
1983 Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island Granny, Miss Prissy, Sylvester's wife
1983 The Smurfic Games Jokey Smurf TV movie
1984 Strong Kids, Safe Kids Jokey Smurf Video Documentary Short
1987 Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers Poor Old Witch TV movie
1987 Daws Butler: Voice Magician Herself
1987 DTV Monster Hits Hazel the Witch, Colleen TV movie
1988 Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons Herself TV movie Documentary
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Wheezy, Lena Hyena
1988 Daffy Duck's Quackbusters Uncredited
1989 Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Librarian 1992 English dub
1990 DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp Mrs. Featherby
1990 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
1992 The Magical World of Chuck Jones Herself Documentary
1992 Boris and Natasha: The Movie Autograph Woman TV movie
1993 I Yabba-Dabba Do! Additional voices TV movie
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
2000 Tweety's High-Flying Adventure Granny Direct-to-video film
2003 Looney Tunes Back in Action Granny Live-action/animated film
2003 Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure Granny Video
2003 Looney Tunes: Reality Check Granny Video
2003 Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction Granny / Witch Hazel Video
2003 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
2006 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
2008 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
2013 The One and Only June Foray Herself Documentary
2014 Rocky and Bullwinkle Rocky, Fearless Leader's Mother Direct-to-video short. Planned for Theatrical Release along with Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
Live action
Year Title Role Notes
1954 Sabaka Marku Ponjoy, The High Priestess of Sabaka Live-action film
1954 The Ray Milland Show Myrna episode: Fashion Model
1954 Meet Mr. McNutley Myrna "Fashion Model"
1955–1956 The Johnny Carson Show Various characters
1966 Death of a Salesman Jenny TV adaptation
1966 Bewitched Diaper Dan Baby / Baby Gladys Kravitz / Baby Darrin Stephens 2 episodes
1967 Green Acres Carmelita "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
1974 Little House on the Prairie Girls Voices in Play episode: Ma's Holiday
1984 The Duck Factory Herself "The Annies"
2000 Great Performances Herself episode: Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens – A Life in Animation
Television
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
1961–1962 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
1963 Beetle Bailey Bunny / WAC Soldiers
1963 Krazy Kat Krazy Kat / Mrs. Kwak-Kwak
1963 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
1965–1970 DoDo, The Kid from Outer Space How, Why
1966 The Road Runner Show Various Characters
1966 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
1967 Birdman and the Galaxy Trio Medusa "The Empress of Evil"
1967 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"
1968 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour various characters
1968 The Little Drummer Boy Aaron's Mother TV special
1968 Mouse on the Mayflower TV special
1969 The Pink Panther Show additional voices episode: Pinto Pink/Le Pig-al Patrol/In The Pink
1969 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Gypsy Fortune Teller "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts"
1969 The Pogo Special Birthday Special Pogo, Hepzibah TV special
1969 Frosty the Snowman Teacher, Karen, Additional voices TV short
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 Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't TV special
1974 These Are the Days
1975 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Nagaina the Cobra, Teddy's Mom, Darzee's Wife TV special
1975 The Hoober-Bloob Highway Additional voices TV special
1975 The White Seal Mackah TV special
1976 Mowgli's Brothers Mother Wolf TV special
1976 The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show Various Characters
1976 The Sylvester & Tweety Show Various Characters
1977 Bugs Bunny's Easter Special Granny TV special
1978 Fabulous Funnies Broom-Hilda, Oola, Hans, Additional voices
1978 Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special Witch Hazel TV short
1978 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show Various Characters
1978 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
1979 Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales Mrs. Claus, Clyde Bunny TV special
1979 Bugs Bunny's Valentine Special Additional voices TV special
1979 Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet Millicent / Attractive Rabbit TV special
1979 The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special Granny
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
1982 The Smurfs Springtime Special Jokey Smurf / Mother Nature TV special
1982 The Adventures of Curious George Narrator
1982 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
1985 The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour Various characters
1985 A Chipmunk Reunion Vinny Uncredited
1985 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
1986-1987 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. Featherb / additional voices
1988 Denver, the Last Dinosaur Bertha
1988 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo Constance McSnack "Wanted Cheddar Alive"
1989 Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters Mrs. Dweeb 2 episodes
1990 Tom and Jerry Kids Show Witch "Doom Manor"
1990 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
1991 Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes Additional voices TV special
1991 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
1993 Rugrats Blocky, Svetlana the Spy "Sour Pickles"
1993 2 Stupid Dogs Red Riding Hood's Grandmother 2 episodes
1993 Bonkers Ma Barker "Calling All Cars"
1995 Weird Science Baby Ruth, Tammy Voice role
Live-action television series
1995 Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery Witch Hazel TV special
1995–2000 Sylvester and 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"
1996 The Bugs n' Daffy Show Various Characters
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"
2005 Duck Dodgers Lezah the Wicked "M.M.O.R.P.D."
2009 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
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[43]
1998 Mulan Animated Storybook Grandmother Fa[43]
1999 Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time Granny, Witch Hazel
2000 Donald Duck Going Quackers Magica De Spell
2000 Looney Tunes: Space Race Granny
2000 Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters Granny
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action Granny
2008 Disney Think Fast Magica De Spell
2013 DuckTales: Remastered Magica De Spell
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
Bacall to Arms Laurie Be-Cool, Mother in Law Voice role
Merrie Melodies Short
1950 Cinderella Lucifer the Cat
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
1952 Lambert the Sheepish Lion Mrs. Sheep
1952 How to Be a Detective The Dame Goofy short
1952 One Cab's Family Mary, Nurse MGM short
1953 Little Johnny Jet Mary MGM short
1953 Peter Pan Squaw She also served as the model for one of the mermaids
1953 Father's Day Off Goofy Jr. Goofy short
1953 Father's Week-end Mrs. Geef Goofy short
1954 Pet Peeve Joan Tom and Jerry short
uncredited
1954 The Farm of Tomorrow Hen, Female announcer MGM short
1955 Mouse for Sale Joan Tom and Jerry short
1955 Red Riding Hoodwinked Red Riding Hood's Grandmother, Red Riding Hood Sylvester and Tweety short
1955 This Is a Life? Granny Bugs Bunny short
1956 The Flying Sorceress Joan, Witch Tom and Jerry short
1956 Broom-Stick Bunny Witch Hazel Bugs Bunny short
1956 Tweet and Sour Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1956 Get Lost Knothead and Splinter Woody Woodpecker short
1956 Tugboat Granny Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1956 Rocket-bye Baby Martha Wilbur, Old Lady, P.A. voice Merrie Melodies short
1956 Deduce, You Say Alfie's Girlfriend, The Shropshire Slasher's Mother Daffy Duck short
1957 Red Riding Hoodlum Knothead and Splinter Woody Woodpecker short
1957 International Woodpecker Knothead and Splinter Woody Woodpecker short
1957 Boston Quackie Mary Daffy Duck short
uncredited
1957 Mucho Mouse Joan Tom and Jerry short
1957 Greedy for Tweety Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1957 Rabbit Romeo Millicent Bugs Bunny short
uncredited
1957 The Snow Queen Court Raven, Old robber, Old Fairy 1959 English dub
1957 Tom's Photo Finish Joan Tom and Jerry short
1957 The Unbearable Salesman Knothead and Splinter Woody Woodpecker short
1958 Don't Axe Me Elmer Fudd's Wife Daffy Duck short
1958 Hare-Less Wolf Charles Wolf's Wife Bugs Bunny short
1958 A Pizza Tweety Pie Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1958 The Vanishing Duck Joan Tom and Jerry short
1958 A Bird in a Bonnet Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1959 Apes of Wrath Mama Ape Bugs Bunny short
1959 A Broken Leghorn Miss Prissy Foghorn Leghorn short
1959 China Jones Dragon Lady Daffy Duck short
uncredited
1959 A Witch's Tangled Hare Witch Hazel Bugs Bunny short
1959 Loopy De Loop Red Riding Hood, Grandma "Wolf Hounded"
1959 Goldimouse and the Three Cats Narrator, Mother Cat, Goldimouse uncredited
1960 Trip for Tat Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1961 The Last Hungry Cat Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
uncredited
1962 Quackodile Tears Daffy Duck's Wife uncredited
1962 Honey's Money The Wealthy Widow Yosemite Sam short
1962 The Jet Cage Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1964 Hawaiian Aye Aye Granny Sylvester and Tweety short
1965 Of Feline Bondage Jerry's Fairy Godmother Tom and Jerry short
1965 The Year of the Mouse Second Mouse Tom and Jerry short
1966 A-Haunting We Will Go Witch Hazel Daffy Duck short
1966 The Man Called Flintstone Tanya
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
1983 Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island Granny, Miss Prissy, Sylvester's wife
1983 The Smurfic Games Jokey Smurf TV movie
1984 Strong Kids, Safe Kids Jokey Smurf Video Documentary Short
1987 Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers Poor Old Witch TV movie
1987 Daws Butler: Voice Magician Herself
1987 DTV Monster Hits Hazel the Witch, Colleen TV movie
1988 Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons Herself TV movie Documentary
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Wheezy, Lena Hyena
1988 Daffy Duck's Quackbusters Uncredited
1989 Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Librarian 1992 English dub
1990 DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp Mrs. Featherby
1990 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
1992 The Magical World of Chuck Jones Herself Documentary
1992 Boris and Natasha: The Movie Autograph Woman TV movie
1993 I Yabba-Dabba Do! Additional voices TV movie
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
2000 Tweety's High-Flying Adventure Granny Direct-to-video film
2003 Looney Tunes Back in Action Granny Live-action/animated film
2003 Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure Granny Video
2003 Looney Tunes: Reality Check Granny Video
2003 Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction Granny / Witch Hazel Video
2003 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
2006 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
2008 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
2013 The One and Only June Foray Herself Documentary
2014 Rocky and Bullwinkle Rocky, Fearless Leader's Mother Direct-to-video short. Planned for Theatrical Release along with Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
Live action
Year Title Role Notes
1954 Sabaka Marku Ponjoy, The High Priestess of Sabaka Live-action film
1954 The Ray Milland Show Myrna episode: Fashion Model
1954 Meet Mr. McNutley Myrna "Fashion Model"
1955–1956 The Johnny Carson Show Various characters
1966 Death of a Salesman Jenny TV adaptation
1966 Bewitched Diaper Dan Baby / Baby Gladys Kravitz / Baby Darrin Stephens 2 episodes
1967 Green Acres Carmelita "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
1974 Little House on the Prairie Girls Voices in Play episode: Ma's Holiday
1984 The Duck Factory Herself "The Annies"
2000 Great Performances Herself episode: Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens – A Life in Animation
Television
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
1961–1962 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
1963 Beetle Bailey Bunny / WAC Soldiers
1963 Krazy Kat Krazy Kat / Mrs. Kwak-Kwak
1963 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
1965–1970 DoDo, The Kid from Outer Space How, Why
1966 The Road Runner Show Various Characters
1966 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
1967 Birdman and the Galaxy Trio Medusa "The Empress of Evil"
1967 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"
1968 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour various characters
1968 The Little Drummer Boy Aaron's Mother TV special
1968 Mouse on the Mayflower TV special
1969 The Pink Panther Show additional voices episode: Pinto Pink/Le Pig-al Patrol/In The Pink
1969 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Gypsy Fortune Teller "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts"
1969 The Pogo Special Birthday Special Pogo, Hepzibah TV special
1969 Frosty the Snowman Teacher, Karen, Additional voices TV short
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 Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't TV special
1974 These Are the Days
1975 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Nagaina the Cobra, Teddy's Mom, Darzee's Wife TV special
1975 The Hoober-Bloob Highway Additional voices TV special
1975 The White Seal Mackah TV special
1976 Mowgli's Brothers Mother Wolf TV special
1976 The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show Various Characters
1976 The Sylvester & Tweety Show Various Characters
1977 Bugs Bunny's Easter Special Granny TV special
1978 Fabulous Funnies Broom-Hilda, Oola, Hans, Additional voices
1978 Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special Witch Hazel TV short
1978 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show Various Characters
1978 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
1979 Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales Mrs. Claus, Clyde Bunny TV special
1979 Bugs Bunny's Valentine Special Additional voices TV special
1979 Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet Millicent / Attractive Rabbit TV special
1979 The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special Granny
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
1982 The Smurfs Springtime Special Jokey Smurf / Mother Nature TV special
1982 The Adventures of Curious George Narrator
1982 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
1985 The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour Various characters
1985 A Chipmunk Reunion Vinny Uncredited
1985 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
1986-1987 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. Featherb / additional voices
1988 Denver, the Last Dinosaur Bertha
1988 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo Constance McSnack "Wanted Cheddar Alive"
1989 Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters Mrs. Dweeb 2 episodes
1990 Tom and Jerry Kids Show Witch "Doom Manor"
1990 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
1991 Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes Additional voices TV special
1991 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
1993 Rugrats Blocky, Svetlana the Spy "Sour Pickles"
1993 2 Stupid Dogs Red Riding Hood's Grandmother 2 episodes
1993 Bonkers Ma Barker "Calling All Cars"
1995 Weird Science Baby Ruth, Tammy Voice role
Live-action television series
1995 Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery Witch Hazel TV special
1995–2000 Sylvester and 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"
1996 The Bugs n' Daffy Show Various Characters
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"
2005 Duck Dodgers Lezah the Wicked "M.M.O.R.P.D."
2009 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
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[43]
1998 Mulan Animated Storybook Grandmother Fa[43]
1999 Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time Granny, Witch Hazel
2000 Donald Duck Going Quackers Magica De Spell
2000 Looney Tunes: Space Race Granny
2000 Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters Granny
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action Granny
2008 Disney Think Fast Magica De Spell
2013 DuckTales: Remastered Magica De Spell
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