JUNE FORAY: The Many Voices / Characters of (Cartoon Voice Actor)

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[@barbaravela6145]

Just like Mel Blanc was known as "The man with a thousand voices", i think Foray would be the woman of a thousand voices.

[@sarysa]

From her Wikipedia article, this still sticks with me: Chuck Jones was quoted as saying: "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray."

[@nobod2567]

Wouldn't Tara Strong be the Woman of a Thousand voices??

[@7JANEWAY]

@@nobod2567 The difference is that June Foray paved the way for Tara Strong and other female voice over artists. And she did it in a time where cartoon voices were almost always male (think Mel Blanc). And she deserves what Chuck Jones said about Mel Blanc being the male June Foray. Before June Foray, women were lucky if they got to do 1 voice in a cartoon. After June Foray, the floodgates were open for women voice artists. It’s only too sad that more people aren’t aware of her and her influence on animation production.

[@nobod2567]

@@7JANEWAY Right thats true, its just the fact how many roles Tara has done over her near 35 year career.

[@7JANEWAY]

@@nobod2567 Yes she has, and so did June Foray.

[@maddestmike5791]

She was the longest surviving Looney Tunes actor. :(

[@oluhamilton2121]

99 years old???

[@elklandry]

Almost a centenarian too.

[@theoneandonlymem432]

@@oluhamilton2121 Yep. She was 99. 11 × 9.

[@evanshiong3557]

She was also the voice of Lucifer in Cinderella. And along with Bill Phipps (who voiced the Prince), she was one of only two members of the cast of the original film that lived to see the live action reenactment.

[@darkreigncometh]

I grew up with her voice. Man she will be missed.

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

darkreigncometh me 2!

[@sugarshark7626]

darkreigncometh me 3

[@christopherbanks3197]

Me 4, when did she pass away?

[@frankdenardo8684]

darkreigncometh I love Rocky the squirrel.

[@thema1998]

@@christopherbanks3197 June Foray died back on July 26, 2017.

[@JW-do2wc]

Before you had Grey DeLisle, Tara Strong, before you had Nancy Cartwright, even before you had Tress MacNeille you had June Foray the original female voice actress, a living legend.

[@noelmaldonado5117]

Josh Waldorf yes she was my childhood

[@thema1998]

@@noelmaldonado5117 I was born in 1998 but she was my childhood as well.

[@anarchimation1448]

don't forget kath soucie

[@zyxwvut4740]

Don't forget Janet Waldo!

[@Yurei.Fox666]

Josh Waldorf so I assume this Jane Is this voice

[@nancyomalley6441]

June Foray was the female Mel Blanc-They were basically the king and Queen of cartoon voice artists!

[@thema1998]

Chuck Jones was quoted as saying that Mel Blanc was the "male June Foray".

[@Vitaliuz]

Well said!

[@blind_t2]

here’s how I put the female voiceover artists I grew up with in a timely order: June, Matriarch, Cree summer: queen, Tara Strong, dutchess, Gray DeLisle, princess. IDK where I’d put Lori Alan, but she’s working towards that.

[@MetroXLR99]

Considering how June and Mel did work together on Looney Tunes, the comparisons make sense.

[@jasonlumpkin4732]

She was the great-grandmother of voice actresses. Before B.J. Ward, Russi Taylor, Kath Souice, Nancy Cartwright, Venus Terzo, Grey Griffin, & Tara Strong, you had this lady as a one woman army. She was splendid in "Rocky & Bullwinkle," "Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies," & "DuckTales." She also pulls off a good Eastern European accent. RIP, she will be forever missed.

[@tkinc88]

So many fond memories. She was incredibly talented. GOD bless her. RIP

[@nataliehughes1020]

Rest In Peace, June. You’ll be missed... 😥

[@frankdenardo8684]

Natalie Hughes she was talking Tina on the twilight zone.

[@2009korz]

She died like my Grandma. A few months short of 100 years old

[@deborahknapp9123]

I'm crying😭😭😭😭😭❤

[@Tornado1994]

@@2009korz She was 98 actually.

[@No-hd4cg]

@@Tornado1994 *99

[@alexmathewmendoza]

Iconic. She had immense talent. Her voice was ubiquitous and had such an elasticity that she could adjust to the hundreds of roles she had and make each of them unique.

[@charlespennie3621]

Ms Foray and Mel Blanc were unstoppable together!

[@Tornado1994]

You mean Bill Scott. Blanc was her Manager and Mentor.

[@caltounite5814]

To our dearest June Foray and her marvelous and most classic voice of many characters we come to know and love. We forever miss her. 😇😇😇 RIP

[@Tarabara]

She had such a recognizable voice but I had no idea she did Lucifer's meow or one of the weasles in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Interestingly enough, Disney also had a Witch Hazel character (Trick or Treat, 1952) and she voiced them both.

[@noahsfunchannel2467]

Tarabara she was also in The Rugrats

[@riokio8630]

She was a legend! Her legacy will live on through all the voices she has done to EVERY characters she has played over several generations!!

[@oluhamilton2121]

Truly underrated and talented. Elite. Did she really live till 99? Wow.

[@SonnyGTA]

I wish we could see her doing these in the studio!

[@LadyDragoncat]

Wait... June Foray was Magica DeSpell... and Cindy-Loo Who (from the Grinch Who Stole Christmas)? She did way more voices than I gave her credit for. She really was the woman with 1,000 voices. She was one of the best in the business, and the business won't be the same without her...

[@koraldavis3474]

Wasn't she spectacular!

[@Tornado1994]

Ever played Ducktales Remastered? She reprised her role as Magica.

[@AlphaStoutland]

I've always known she played Rocky, but I never knew she was Cindy Lou, Lucifer, Granny, Mulan's grandma or the kids and teacher in Frosty too! My mind is blown 🤯

[@Alicethegoon-q6y]

Lucifer was played by Frank in Cinderella 2, and many other characters she played were sometimes replaced when she was still around

[@adampellett8374]

June Foray will always be my favorite voice actress in my childhood from before and beyond. Is very sad she passed away in 2017. She shall be missed. 😭 RIP June Foray.

[@CartoonCritter1985]

Wow, I thought I knew a lot of June Foray characters, but didn't realize how much she did till now! I didn't realize she was Magica from DuckTales! So talented! Thanks for posting!

[@lenevee4925]

It's good to finally put a face with the awesome voices. She almost lived to be 100 years old.

[@RudyBlackman]

The queen of voice acting shall forever be remembered

[@rosiemon]

She was in so many shows that I loved as a child. A real talent.

[@robogirl]

Has no one heard of Fractured Fairytails? She voiced in almost every episode.

[@thehunterator520]

I have, since it is a part of the rocky show, aka rocky and bullwinkle and friends, aka the bullwinkle show, etc.

[@shawnhapney8784]

Her and Mel Blanc. Maestros.

[@zackaryruhland4181]

R.I.P. June Foray (1917-2017)

[@plawson8577]

1918-2017.

[@kenthuang436]

She also did the original Chatty Cathy voice

[@dragonson72]

@Kent Huang, My sister has an original Chatty Cathy, that still talks, I repaired it when I was young, the doll is still in great condition

[@otchyibarra0361]

She even did Tom and Jerry

[@andreapatane4204]

R.I.P. June Foray, we'll miss you and your really good voice acting forever. I'll always remember you as the voice actress behind Granny on Looney Toons and Karen from Frosty The Snowman. *grieves

[@trainman7644]

Andrea Patane At 8:08 Bruno sounded like Candy Candido.

[@dragonson72]

Do not forget Litle Cindy Lu Who, she was no more than two

[@frankdenardo8684]

Andrea Patane Rocky the squirrel and talking Tina from the twilight zone.

[@Thanos6]

Is there anyone else, anyone at all, whose career spanned from The Golden Age Of Radio up through digitally distributed video games?

[@nancyomalley6441]

Funny how a lot of the Ducktales are listed together-Then you throw us all into "The Twilight Zone" with Talky Tina terrorizing Kojak!

[@SegaNintendoGuy64]

The last surviving VA from the golden age.. Gone but not forgotten.

[@Tornado1994]

Did you forget Alan Young????He lived until 2016. Lived to be almost 97.

[@MystressXOXO]

I did not know she did all of this! She was amazing and voiced one of my favorites: Witch Hazel! ❤️❤️❤️

[@porterjones6022]

Talking Tina...I definitely shuddered at that one. Probably one of the creepiest Twilight Zone episodes of all time.

[@nathancruz9172]

8:09 I didn’t know she voiced Lucifer.

[@CapitanMikeSparrow]

I really miss her, she lived for a hundred years.

[@nancyomalley6441]

Almost! She didn't make it to her 100th birthday-2 months off

[@Tornado1994]

Nope. She was over a year away from 100.

[@SirParcifal]

OMG I didn't realize how many cartoon characters she was - love this - RIP - !

[@mistergrandpasbakery9941]

Thanks for including the George Of The Jungle clip. That was my favorite of her many voices! Maybe it's the red hair! 💘

[@angelrivera318]

RIP To A Amazing Woman Which I Called Her The Woman With The 1000 Voices June Foray Now She's In Heaven & Reunited With The Man With The 1000 Voices Mel Blanc & Chunk Jones & Others RIP June Foray

[@niawhite7457]

June along with Mel and others are all my inspirations to be a voice actor RIP both of you and thank you for being part of my childhood

[@rickroscoe4734]

I never knew June did "Mumbles". Along with her "women and girl" voices, she did a number of "boys" and even a few "men" and the best "angry cat" I ever heard.

[@tarkushead]

God, I remember the whacky voices she performed on Fractured Flickers - unreal talent!

[@markrodriguez9442]

She is not just Rocky the flying squirrel and the granny,she was the gypsy on Scooby Doo,one of the weasels and someone that Eddie had thought she was Jessica Rabbit. Such voice talent.

[@tf2disneylover1258]

I didn't know she was one of the weasels.

[@dragonson72]

Witch Hazel, Magica Dispell and Little Cindy Lu Who

[@oluhamilton2121]

MINA HYENA! A MA-YAN!!! LOL.

[@jowilliams1749]

R.I.P JUNE FORAY OUR BELOVED ROCKY SQUIRREL AND GRANNY.

[@brianbrachel4871]

Rest In Peace June 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

Brian Brachel Amen to that.

[@lynng9618]

You forgot Chuck Jones other specials, including June Foray's wonderful impression of Rocksha in "The Jungle Book"

[@frankdenardo8684]

El Gee she was in the cartoons of Chester the cricket.

[@melissacooper4482]

She was also in Garfield and Friends as Penelope's mother.

[@Dinobolt1]

I know, they really should have included her performances in Chuck Jones' Kipling Trilogy especially Mowgli's Brothers which in my humble opinion is her most intense and serious performance.

[@samuelfarris1949]

So I now realise that recurring cat sounds I hear in animation originated with Lucifer's screeches in Cinderella. But seriously for me that shows how far a talent June was. Samuel F.

[@funkmastaC]

June and mel were the sound of animation for decades. May they Rest In Peace.

[@Tornado1994]

She worked with Mel. She was his FIRST apprentice and Voice Acting student.

[@zackaryruhland4181]

I missed June Foray!

[@limfongyuen33]

RIP Buckwinkle The Squireel; Granny from Looney Tunes; Magica DeSpell & Mama Beagle from Ducktales 1987; Granny Gummi Bears; Nephew/Niece Woodpecker; Aunt May in Spiderman & Friends; The Grumpy Jelousy Cat in Cinderella & Grandma in Mulan...

[@27RAIDERMAN]

Happy Birthday to the late Voice Actress legend 9/18/1917 - 7/26/2017

[@BarberShave19]

I was quite surprised when I learned that she was still alive up until last year. Rest in peace, June.

[@johnhutchins8987]

Legendary RIP June

[@christiantracey1479]

I'm gonna miss June Foray doing the voice of Magica De Spell

[@VVK5W]

One thing that should be mentioned, her later work on Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Looney Toons Show..... she was in her mid 90's. Amazing.

[@ibmsst]

Man. I swear I fell in love with this voice through out my life and I seen so many toons with her in it. Now I can connect the voice with a beautiful face. ❤️

[@TerrickTerran]

One of my favorite voice actors. Though she had several great ones, Granny will always be my first thought for her.

[@AllRequired]

The last remaining clear link to the Golden Age of Animation.

[@Chris_2cents]

Happy Birthday to June Foray.9-18-17.Springfield,MA.So many memorable characters.

[@plawson8577]

September 18,1918.

[@Chris_2cents]

@@plawson8577 I'm sure i got the right year

[@DemiTrusdale3]

Oh wow... she was my childhood pre-Tara Strong

[@dannythomas417]

Pre-Tress MacNeille is more like it.

[@BobSmith-uc5js]

June Foray, the greatest voice actor ever, male or female. An amazing career and life well lived. RIP

[@KTF0]

One of the most prolific ever. She started voicework at age 12 and stopped at age 96! 84 years working!

[@Tornado1994]

@@KTF0 In 2015, she was STILL Working. So was Alan Young.

[@Konsker]

love the voice of magica de spell

[@Tornado1994]

Konsker It was her 2nd Personal Favorite Voice role.

[@sojoboscribe1342]

Odd that Magica gets on the list but Natasha Fatale (where she developed that voice) didn't

[@Konsker]

@@Tornado1994 glad to hear it

[@Jimmersaunt]

I’d know June Foray’s voice anywhere! I grew up watching The Rocky and Bullwinkle show and she not only voiced Rocky, but many of the Fractured Fairytale characters as well!

[@Rlotpir1972]

June also voiced Jerry in a few episodes on Chuck Jones' "Tom and Jerry" (1963-1967).

[@gonikkoyeahyeah6383]

As vocal effects along with Mel Blanc.

[@eggmannega6895]

How many people wish she was their grandmother?

[@Kevin_tx]

I love her voice! The old woman, the witch. Such a great voiceover

[@karenenglish788]

I miss June Foray.

[@Daehawk]

Hard to believe but almost all the female cartoon voices I heard as a kid were one person, June Foray. She made my 1970s and 1980s come alive every Saturday morning without fail. Now days you couldn't pay her enough for all her work. I hope she was well paid. Lived just a few months shy of 100 years. WOW. What a life. The things she saw and experienced. RIP.

[@aslan9334]

she did so many voices of my favorite cartoons / characters!🥀

[@gravismunchnick1945]

Talkie Tina, the darkest voice she ever did. I think she also did Mrs. Frumpington, from the classic Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon episode, where Alvin tricks her into liking Rock and Roll music. "Baby, baby, baby , daddy, daddy daddy...

[@bobbybickert]

That Twilight Zone episode wasn't the only time June Foray did voicework for something that was live action. (Though it's certainly the best-known example.) In the 1961 20th Century Fox feature film The Two Little Bears, June Foray did the voice of "Mother Bear", uncredited. In the Season 2 Bewitched episode "Baby's First Paragraph", Endora gives the newborn Tabitha the ability to speak. That was June Foray, again uncredited. In the Season 2 Lost in Space episode "The Questing Beat", June Foray did the voice of the dragon, once again uncredited. (and the knight pursuing the dragon was played by her Dudley DoRight costar Hans Conreid.)

[@f0ry0u81]

I had no Idea all those characters came from the same actor. What an absolute legend😎

[@Cheeseandwhiskers]

She Also Voiced Vinny The Chipmunks Mother

[@dayvid20000]

June Foray was amazing!!! What a great video you've created in her honor!

[@n.d.engleson6499]

The one actor/actress who lived to be approximately 100 years old! Jeez!

[@RayManiac90]

I love when she made Witch Hazel voice in Looney Tunes, she was so perfect for that character

[@seatspud]

Can't forget her as the witch in the Donald Duck "Trick or Treat" short.

[@sugarshark7626]

OMG She was in every cartoon that ever existed.

[@kchishol1970]

The first clip with Granny was not voiced by Foray, it was Bea Benaderet of Petticoat Junction fame.

[@martinpatrick1746]

Bea would voice Betty Rubble alongside Mel Blanc on the Flintstones.

[@Tornado1994]

Banaderet died from Smoking related Lung Cancer. June was a lifelong non smoker and vegan. She hated 2nd hand smoke. Foray did use Amphetamines during the 50s, as most women did at the time. She kicked the habit in 1962. To be fair, Alan Young was a Pipe Smoker, but he quit in 1975 because he was afraid that the habit would damage his vocal cords. He never used another Tobacco product for the remainder of his life.

[@oluhamilton2121]

....and l THINK Marjorie Main did some voices on FRACTURED FAIRYTALES.

[@bobbybickert]

@@oluhamilton2121 It could have been June Foray. She did a good impersonation of Marjorie Main, heard in cartoons like "Let's Stick Together" (Donald Duck), "Quackodile Tears" (Daffy Duck) and "Honey's Money" (Yosemite Sam). As I mentioned in another comment about this video, I wish she had done the voice of Maw in Walter Lantz's "Maw and Paw" cartoons. But Walter Lantz's wife Gracie did the voice of Maw, using a voice that sounds nothing like Marjorie Main.

[@seanpatrickrichards5593]

She was really great! I loved so many of those characters, when i was a kid her and Frank Welker could be heard in my livingroom everyday :O)

[@MrLamontSanford]

She was TWO 'Witch Hazels' one for Disney one for W.B.

[@noahpartic7586]

😯A female Mel Blanc, before Tara Strong of today? Incredible. I especially remember Granny from Looney Toons. A worthy product of her time & can never be replaced 😭.

[@elainamarialawrence2776]

Her voice did magic. 🌹

[@StephenLuke]

RIP June Foray (1917-2017)

[@elizabethalvarado8698]

She even played the Mayor's wife, in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride, in Disneyland. You know, "Don't tell him, Carlos, don't be chicken!"

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

June Foray was a few days from turning 100 years old when she passed away.

[@Tornado1994]

Actually, she was turning 99. She was morose and reclusive the last 14 months of her life. Alan Young's death really took the wind out of her. She was in grief.

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@Tornado1994 her date of birth was September 18, 1917. She died July 26, 2017. She was nearly 2 months from her 100th birthday.

[@plawson8577]

@@BrotherDerrick3X She was born September 18,1918 in Springfield,MA.

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

@@plawson8577 every listing I found says 1917

[@Tornado1994]

@@BrotherDerrick3X 1918.

[@jordanjenkins1671]

She passed away 2 months short of 100 years old!

[@nobodysperfect06]

She was good friends with Alan Young I believe

[@Tornado1994]

VERY Good Friends. First Met each other at KNBC in 1955. Both also got introduced to Mel Blanc in 1958, Mel actually started and Ran an V.A. Agency in 1963, Foray and Young were his first two V.A.s signed on it. Both also worked together in Various HB Cartoons. And BOTH worked together on Alvin And The Chipmunks. Both joined Walt Disney's Buena Vista ADR Production in 1984. Alan Young and June Foray's Friendship lasted for Decades. Young's Family moved him to the Hollywood Retirement Community in Woodland Hills,CA in 2005, Foray's Niece soon followed suit and moved her Aunt to the Community. She and Alan were Neighbors and often shopped,played bingo and walked together. Even STILL doing voice work and STILL capable of it even doing Ducktales Remastered in their 90s! Young, Age 96 Died suddenly from Heart Failure May 19,2016. She actually turned desolate after his death and stopped talking to people, became reclusive and morose, she outlived her Friend by 14 Months, dying in her sleep at the age of 98 on July 26,2017.

[@initiatorhater0688]

@@Tornado1994 i thought she was 99, like 6 weeks shy, or a month and a half shy of 100. Also, i thought June Foray first met and worked with Mel Blanc earlier than 1958, like a few years after WWII ended, or beginning of the 1950's.

[@plawson8577]

initiatorhater0688 Foray was mostly doing Radio Voice Work until 1957. She also had a gig on the Johnny Carson Show back during 1955-1957.

[@bobbybickert]

@@plawson8577 June Foray did quite a bit of cartoon voicework prior to 1957. While she was at Disney in the early 1950's , in addition to doing voicework for Cinderella and Peter Pan, she did voicework for Donald Duck and Goofy cartoons, including a recurring role as Goofy's wife. She did voicework for Tex Avery's MGM cartoons like "One Cab's Family", "Little Johnny Jet" and "Car of Tomorrow". After Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera could no longer use Dinah the maid in the Tom and Jerry series, Tom had new owners voiced by Daws Butler and June Foray. (Though someone else did the voice of Joan the wife in the final Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 1950's. Maybe June was too busy at Warner Brothers?) For Walter Lantz she did the voices of Woody Woodpecker's nephew and niece, Knothead and Splinter, who first appeared in the cartoon "Get Lost" (1956).

[@dmisslourdes69]

I loved June foray....she is missed

[@aubreeofarc]

June Foray was also the voice of Karen in the original version of Frosty the Snowman before it was replaced by an unknown child voice actress at the time.

[@CrazyClara101]

Very clever she was in a Rocky and Bullwinkle lookalike show in Rugrats 👏

[@MasterCreator1998]

She is the world oldest voice actress better than Mel Brooks age, besides, she was so close to be 100 years old after she died.

[@nancyomalley6441]

99 years old!

[@Tornado1994]

@@nancyomalley6441 98. According to the 1920 Census.

[@rayvega3163]

Dang, I miss her. Now I can't hear her voice anymore. She did many, many wonderful voices :(

[@dannythomas417]

We still have Tress MacNeille with us. Yes, June was one of the first, but Tress is as close as we’re gonna get.

[@mogensl.g.schmidt1808]

She sure does voices a lot witches

[@skyy7777]

Just one of a kind!! ❤

[@chesterlane3032]

I miss her very much and I grew up with her since I started watching her work in cartoon voices on TV shows back in the day

[@DrawsomeDrawer]

Didn't know June Foray and Mel Blanc were in so many shows together

[@Tornado1994]

Blanc was her Manager and Mentor.

[@Dinobolt1]

A great selection, but personally I would have included her role as Raksha from Mowgli's Brothers. That scene where she threatens Shere Kahn may quite possibly be her most intense and serious performance.

[@Aoki85]

I think it's wonderful how she did the "Blocky and Oxwinkle" voices, where appropriate.

[@robinturner9928]

I knew some of them, but that is a really impressive list!!!

[@AmberTheFangirl]

You should do a Bill Scott one.

[@rachelklueck9264]

June Foray had a lot of memories.

[@charlesblount1083]

June Foray voice sound better than some of the cartoons she done quality-wise that is