June Foray(bornJune Lucille Forer;September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an Americanvoice actressandradio personality,best known as the voice of suchanimatedcharacters asRocky the Flying Squirrel,Natasha Fatale,Nell Fenwick,Luciferfrom Disney'sCinderella,Cindy Lou Who,Jokey Smurf,Grannyfrom theWarner Bros. cartoonsdirected byFriz Freleng,Grammi Gummi fromDisney's Adventures of the Gummi Bearsseries, andMagica De Spell,among many others.
June Foray | |
|---|---|
 Foray in 1952 | |
| Born | June Lucille Forer September 18, 1917 |
| Died | July 26, 2017(aged 99) Los Angeles,California,U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Voice actress, radio personality |
| Years active | 1929–2014[1][2] |
| Notable work | Rocky the Flying Squirrel,Natasha Fatale,Nell Fenwick,Cindy Lou Who,Grannyfrom theTweetycartoons,Witch Hazel,Jokey Smurf,Magica De SpellfromDuckTales,Grammi Gummi, and others |
| Board member of | ASIFA-Hollywood |
| Spouses | Bernard Barondess
(m.1941;div.1953)Hobart Donovan
(m.1955; died 1976) |
| Awards | Daytime Emmy Awards 2012Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program The Garfield Show Annie Awards 1996 and 1997Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries 1974Inkpot Award[3] |
Her career encompassed radio, theatrical shorts, feature films, television, records (particularly withStan Freberg), video games, talking toys, and other media. Foray was also one of the early members ofASIFA-Hollywood,the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation. She is credited with the establishment of theAnnie Awards,as well as being instrumental in the creation of theAcademy Award for Best Animated Featurein 2001. She has a star on theHollywood Walk of Famehonoring her voice work in television.[4]
Chuck Joneswas quoted as saying: "June Foray is not the femaleMel Blanc.Mel Blanc was the male June Foray. "[5]
Early life
June Lucille Forer was born on September 18, 1917,[6]inSpringfield, Massachusetts,one of three children of Ida (Robinson) and Morris Forer. Her mother was ofLithuanian JewishandFrench Canadianancestry, and her father was a Jewish emigrant fromOdessa,Russian Empire.[7]The family resided at75 Orange Street, Forest Park.[8]As a small child, Foray first wanted to be a dancer, so her mother sent her to local classes, but she had to drop out due to a case ofpneumonia.[9]Her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years old;[10]by age 15, she was doing regular radio voice work.[4]
Two years later, after graduating fromClassical High School,she moved with her parents and siblings to live inLos Angeles,near Ida's brother, after Morris Forer, an engineer, fell on hard financial times.[8]
Acting career
After entering radio through theWBZAPlayers, Foray starred in her own radio seriesLady Make Believein the late 1930s.[11]She soon became a popular voice actress, with regular appearances on coast-to-coast network shows includingLux Radio TheatreandThe Jimmy Durante Show.[8]
In the 1940s, Foray also began film work, including a few roles in live action movies, but mostly did voice over work for animated cartoons and radio programs and occasionally dubbing films and television.[12]On radio, Foray did the voices of Midnight the Cat and Old Grandie the Piano onThe Buster Brown Program,which starredSmilin' Ed McConnell,from 1944 to 1952. She later did voices on theMutual Broadcasting SystemprogramSmile TimeforSteve Allen.[10]Her work in radio ultimately led her to recording for a number ofchildren's albumsforCapitol Records.[10]
ForWalt Disney,Foray voiced Lucifer the Cat in the feature filmCinderella,Lambert's mother inLambert the Sheepish Lion,a mermaid inPeter PanandWitch Hazelin the Donald Duck shortTrick or Treat.Decades later, Foray was the voice of Grandmother Fa in the 1998 animated Disney filmMulan.She also did a variety of voices inWalter Lantz Productions'Woody Woodpeckercartoons, including Woody's nephew and niece, Knothead and Splinter. Impressed by her performance as Witch Hazel, in 1954Chuck Jonesinvited her over toWarner Brothers Cartoons.[10]ForWarner Brothers,she wasGranny(whom she had played on vinyl records starting in 1950, before officially voicing her inRed Riding Hoodwinked,released in 1955, taking over forBea Benaderet), owner ofTweetyandSylvester,and a series of witches, includingLooney Tunes' ownWitch Hazel,with Jones as director. Like most of Warner Brothers' voice actors at the time (with the exception ofMel Blanc), Foray was not credited for her roles in these cartoons.[10]She played Bubbles onThe Super 6andCindy Lou Who,asking "Santa" why he's taking their tree, inHow the Grinch Stole Christmas.[9]In 1960, she provided the speech forMattel's original "Chatty Cathy"doll;[4]capitalizing on this, Foray also voiced the malevolent "Talky Tina" doll in theTwilight Zoneepisode "Living Doll",first aired on November 1, 1963.[13]
Foray worked forHanna-Barbera,including onScooby-Doo, Where Are You!,The Jetsons,The Flintstonesand many other shows. In 1959, she auditioned for the part ofBetty RubbleonThe Flintstonesand voiced the character in the original pilot episode, oppositeMel Blancwho voiced Betty's husband,Barney Rubble,butBea Benaderetwas eventually cast in the role; Foray described herself as "terribly disappointed" at not getting to play Betty.[14]Foray eventually made a guest appearance onThe Flintstonesas the voice of Granny Hatrock in the episode "The Bedrock Hillbillies".
She did extensive voice acting forStan Freberg's commercials, albums, and1957 radio series,memorably as secretary to the werewolf advertising executive. She also appeared in severalRankin/BassTV specials in the 1960s and 1970s, voicing the young Karen and the teacher in the TV specialFrosty the Snowman(although only her Karen singing parts remained in later airings, after Rankin-Bass re-edited the special a few years after it debuted, with Foray's dialogue re-dubbed by an uncredited child actress, Suzanne Davidson).[15]She voiced all the female roles inRikki-Tikki-Tavi(1975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina.[16]She played multiple characters onThe Rocky and Bullwinkle Show,includingNatasha FataleandNell Fenwick,as well as male lead characterRocket J. Squirrel(a.k.a. Rocky Squirrel) forJay Ward,[17]and played Ursula onGeorge of the Jungle;and also starred onFractured Flickers.[18]
In the mid-1960s, she became devoted to the preservation and promotion of animation and wrote numerous magazine articles about animation.[10]She and a number of other animation artists had informal meetings around Hollywood in the 1960s, and later decided to formalize this asASIFA-Hollywood,a chapter of the Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (theInternational Animated Film Association).[19]She is credited with coming up with the idea of theAnnie Awardsin 1972, awarded by ASIFA-Hollywood, having noted that there had been no awards to celebrate the field of animation.[19]In 1988, she was awarded theBob Clampett Humanitarian Award.[20]In 1995, ASIFA-Hollywood established the June Foray Award,[21]which is awarded to "individuals who have made a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation". Foray was the first recipient of the award. She was an enthusiastic member of theLos Angeles Student Film Instituteadvisory board and frequent host and/or presenter at its annual festivals.[22][23]In 2007, Foray became a contributor toASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Archive Project.[24]She also had sat on the Governors' board for theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciencesand lobbied for two decades for the academy to establish anAcademy Awardfor animation; the academy created theAcademy Award for Best Animated Featurein 2001 from her petitioning.[19]
In 2007,Britt Irvinbecame the first person to voice a character in a cartoon remake that had been previously played by Foray in the original series when she voiced Ursula in the newGeorge of the Jungleseries onCartoon Network.In 2011,Roz RyanvoicedWitch Lezah(Hazel spelled backwards) inThe Looney Tunes Show,opposite June Foray as Granny.[25]Foray also voicedMay ParkerinSpider-Man and His Amazing Friends(1981–83), as well asRaggedy Annon several TV movies, Grandma Howard onTeen Wolf,Jokey Smurf and Mother Nature onThe Smurfs,andMagica De SpellandMa BeagleinDuckTales.At the same time, she had a leading role voicing Grammi Gummi onDisney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears,an animated series credited with kickstarting an era of dramatically increased artistic standards for television animation,[26]working with herRocky and Bullwinkleco-starBill Scottuntil his death in 1985.[27]
Foray guest starred only once onThe Simpsons,in the season one episode "Some Enchanted Evening",as the receptionist for the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service. This was a play on aRocky & Bullwinklegag years earlier in which none of the cartoon's characters, including narratorWilliam Conrad,were able to pronounce "rubber baby buggy bumpers" unerringly. Foray was laterhomagedbyThe Simpsons,in the season eight episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show",in which the character June Bellamy (voiced byTress MacNeille) is introduced as the voice behind bothItchy and Scratchy.[28][29]According toThe Simpsonswriter and producerMike Reiss,Foray voiced a few parts at the first table read forThe Simpsonsin early 1989 "but she sounded too cartoony for our show".[30]
Foray appeared on camera in a major role only once, inSabaka,as the high priestess of a fire cult. She also appeared on camera in an episode ofGreen Acresas a Mexican telephone operator. In 1991, she provided her voice as the sock-puppet talk-show host Scary Mary on an episode ofMarried... with Children.She had a cameo role inBoris & Natasha(1992), but once again played Rocky and Natasha throughout the feature filmThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle(2000). Another on-camera appearance was as herself on an episode of the 1984 TV sitcomThe Duck Factory.[31]
She was also often called in forADRvoice work for television and feature films. This work included dubbing the voice ofMary BadhaminTwilight Zoneepisode "The Bewitchin' Pool" and the voices for Sean and Michael Brody in some scenes of the filmJaws.She dubbed several people inBells Are Ringing,Diana Riggin some scenes ofThe Hospital,Robert Blakein drag in an episode ofBarettaand a little boy inThe Comic.[32]
Later career
In 1996 and 1997, Foray won theAnnie Awardfor Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production for her work inSylvester and Tweety Mysteries.In 2000, Foray returned to play Rocky the Flying Squirrel inUniversal Pictures' live-action/CGI animated filmThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle,co-starring and produced byRobert De Niro.On Season Three, Episode One ( "The Thin White Line") ofFamily Guy,Foray again played Rocky in a visual gag with a single line ( "And now, here's something we hope you'll really like!" ). Foray voiced the wife of the man getting dunked ( "Don't tell him, Carlos!" ) in thePirates of the Caribbeanattraction. In 2003, she guest starred as the villain Madame Argentina in thePowerpuff Girlsepisode, "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future". During this time, Foray also had a regular role, reprising Granny onBaby Looney Tunesand also Witch Hazel in an episode of anotherWarner Bros. AnimationseriesDuck Dodgers.In October 2006, she portrayedSusan B. Anthonyon three episodes of the podcastThe Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd.In November 2009, Foray appeared twice onThe Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack:in one episode as Ruth, a pie-maker trapped in Bubbie's stomach, and in another episode as Kelly, a young boy having a birthday party and as Kelly's Mom and Captain K'Nuckles' kindergarten teacher.[citation needed]
In 2011, she reprised her role as Granny inCartoon Network'sThe Looney Tunes Show,which was her last regular gig. That year, she received the Comic-Con Icon Award at the2011 Scream Awards.She also appeared as Granny in the theatrically releasedLooney Tunesshort,I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat,which was shortlisted for Academy Award consideration.[33]
In 2012, Foray received her first Emmy nomination and won in the category ofOutstanding Performer in an Animated Programfor her role as Mrs. Cauldron onThe Garfield Show.[34]She thus became, at age 94, the oldest entertainer to be nominated for, and to win, anEmmy Award.[35]She reprised her role of Rocky in aRocky & Bullwinkleshort film, which was released in 2014.[36]
In September 2013, she was honored with the Governors Award at the65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.[37]That same year, she reprised her role as Magica De Spell in the video gameDuckTales: Remastered.
Personal life
Foray married Bernard Barondess in 1941.[38]The marriage ended in divorce.[39]She met Hobart Donovan while appearing onThe Buster Brown Programon radio. He was the show's main writer and had also writtenThe Buster Browncomic book. Foray and Donovan were married from 1955 until Donovan's death in 1976.[40]She had no children by either marriage.
In 1973, Foray was an organizer of a meat boycott in response toPresident Nixon's freezing of meat (and other) prices.[41]As a result of this, Foray was included in theMaster list of Nixon's political opponents,commonly known asNixon's Enemies List.[42][43][44]
Death
Foray died at a hospital inLos Angeles,California,on July 26, 2017, at the age of 99. She had been in declining health since an automobile accident in 2015.[19][45]
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" |
| 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 | |
| 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" |
| 1953 | Stand by for Crime | Jimmy, the paperboy | "Queenie's 10,000 Dollar Alibi" |
| 1954 | Rocky Fortune | Linda, Miss Fabian | "The Museum Murder" |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | The Egg Cracker Suite | Oswald the Lucky Rabbit | Voice role Universal Short |
| The Unbearable Bear | Sleepwalking Wife Bear | Voice role Merrie MelodiesShort | |
| 1946 | The Lonesome Stranger | Little Orphan Fanny | Voice role Live action short |
| 1950 | Cinderella | Lucifer | |
| 1951 | Get Rich Quick | Mrs. Geef, Additional voices | Goofy short |
| Car of Tomorrow | Fashion Car announcer, Talking Turn Signal | MGMshort | |
| 1952 | Trick or Treat | Witch Hazel | Donald Duck short |
| Lambert the Sheepish Lion | Mrs. Sheep | ||
| One Cab's Family | Receptionist, Nurse, Mary the Mother Cab, Tex[46] | MGM short | |
| How to Be a Detective | The Dame | Goofy short | |
| 1953 | Little Johnny Jet | Mary | MGM short |
| Peter Pan | Squaw | She also served as the model for one of the mermaids | |
| Father's Day Off | Goofy Jr. | Goofy short | |
| Father's Week-end | Mrs. Geef | ||
| 1954 | The Farm of Tomorrow | Hen, Female announcer | MGM short |
| Pet Peeve | Joan | Tom and Jerry short | |
| 1955 | Mouse for Sale | ||
| Red Riding Hoodwinked | Red Riding Hood's Grandmother, Red Riding Hood | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| This Is a Life? | Granny | Bugs Bunny short | |
| A Kiddie's Kitty | Suzanne's Mother | Sylvester short | |
| The First Bad Man | Cavewomen[46] | MGM short | |
| 1956 | The Flying Sorceress | Joan, Witch | Tom and Jerry short |
| Broom-Stick Bunny | Witch Hazel | Bugs Bunny short | |
| Tweet and Sour | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| Tugboat Granny | |||
| Get Lost | Knothead and Splinter | Woody Woodpecker short | |
| Rocket-bye Baby | Martha Wilbur, Old Lady, P.A. voice | Merrie Melodies short | |
| Deduce, You Say | Alfie's Girlfriend, The Shropshire Slasher's Mother | Daffy Duck short | |
| 1957 | Red Riding Hoodlum | Knothead and Splinter | Woody Woodpecker short |
| International Woodpecker | |||
| Boston Quackie | Mary | Daffy Duck short uncredited | |
| Mucho Mouse | Joan | Tom and Jerry short | |
| Greedy for Tweety | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| Rabbit Romeo | Millicent | Bugs Bunny short uncredited | |
| The Snow Queen | Court Raven, Old robber, Old Fairy | 1959English dub | |
| Tom's Photo Finish | Joan | Tom and Jerry short | |
| The Unbearable Salesman | Knothead and Splinter | Woody Woodpecker short | |
| 1958 | Don't Axe Me | Elmer Fudd's Wife | Daffy Duck short |
| Hare-Less Wolf | Charles Wolf's Wife | Bugs Bunny short | |
| A Pizza Tweety Pie | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| The Vanishing Duck | Joan | Tom and Jerry short | |
| A Bird in a Bonnet | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| 1959 | Apes of Wrath | Mama Ape | Bugs Bunny short |
| A Broken Leghorn | Miss Prissy | Foghorn Leghorn short | |
| China Jones | Dragon Lady | Daffy Duck short uncredited | |
| A Witch's Tangled Hare | Witch Hazel | Bugs Bunny short | |
| Loopy De Loop | Red Riding Hood, Grandma | "Wolf Hounded" | |
| Goldimouse and the Three Cats | Narrator, Mother Cat, Goldimouse | uncredited | |
| 1960 | Trip for Tat | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short |
| 1961 | The Last Hungry Cat | ||
| 1962 | Quackodile Tears | Daffy Duck's Wife | uncredited |
| Honey's Money | The Wealthy Widow | Yosemite Sam short | |
| The Jet Cage | Granny | Sylvester and Tweety short | |
| 1964 | Hawaiian Aye Aye | ||
| 1965 | Of Feline Bondage | Jerry's Fairy Godmother | Tom and Jerry short |
| The Year of the Mouse | Second Mouse | ||
| 1966 | A-Haunting We Will Go | Witch Hazel | Daffy Duck short |
| The Man Called Flintstone | Tanya | ||
| 1967 | Congratulations, It's Pink | Baby | Pink Panthershort |
| 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 | Archive footage |
| 1983 | Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island | Granny, Miss Prissy, Sylvester's wife | |
| The Smurfic Games | Jokey Smurf | TV movie | |
| 1984 | Strong Kids, Safe Kids | Jokey Smurf,Pac-Baby | Video Documentary Short |
| 1985 | Molly and the Skywalkerz: Happily Ever After | Ms. Macolla (voice) | Television filmforPBS,later,VHSvideo[47][48][49][50][51][52] |
| 1987 | Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers | Poor Old Witch | TV movie |
| Daws Butler: Voice Magician | Herself | ||
| DTV Monster Hits | Hazel the Witch, Colleen | TV movie | |
| 1988 | Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons | Herself | TV movie documentary |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Wheezy, Lena Hyena | ||
| Daffy Duck's Quackbusters | Uncredited | ||
| 1989 | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Librarian | 1992English dub |
| Molly and the Skywalkerz: Two Daddies? | Ms. Macolla (voice) | Television filmforPBS,later,VHSvideo[51][53][52] | |
| 1990 | DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp | Mrs. Featherby | |
| 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 |
| The Magical World of Chuck Jones | Herself | Documentary | |
| Boris and Natasha: The Movie | Autograph Woman | TV movie | |
| 1993 | I Yabba-Dabba Do! | Additional voices | |
| 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,AnimatedNatasha Fatale,The Narrator's Mother | Voice role
Live-action/animated film |
| Tweety's High-Flying Adventure | Granny | Direct-to-video film | |
| 2003 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Live-action/animated film | |
| Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure | Video | ||
| Looney Tunes: Reality Check | |||
| Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction | Granny / Witch Hazel | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The One and Only June Foray | |||
| 2014 | Rocky and Bullwinkle | Rocky, Fearless Leader's Mother | Direct-to-video short; Final role. Planned for Theatrical Release along withMr. Peabody & Sherman. |
| 2021 | Tom & Jerry | Jerry | Archival voice recordings |
Live action
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Sabaka | Marku Ponjoy, The High Priestess of Sabaka | |
| The Ray Milland Show | Myrna | Episode: "Fashion Model" | |
| Meet Mr. McNutley | |||
| 1955–1956 | The Johnny Carson Show | Various characters | |
| 1957 | I Love Lucy | Voice of the Dog | Episode: "Little Ricky Gets a Dog"[54] |
| 1966 | Death of a Salesman | Jenny | Television film |
| Bewitched | Diaper Dan Baby / Baby Gladys Kravitz / Baby Darrin Stephens | 2 episodes | |
| 1967 | Green Acres | Carmelita | Episode: "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 |
| 1971–1972 | Curiosity Shop | Aarthur the Aardvark, Hermione Giraffe, Nostalgia Elephant, additional voices[55] | 17 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 | 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 pilotThe 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Beetle Bailey | Bunny | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1964 | Gilligan's Island | the voice of Alice McNeil on the radio | Season 1 Episode 4: "Goodnight, Sweet Skipper" |
| 1964 | The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) | Sport Sharewood | The Bewitchin' Pool |
| 1966 | The Road Runner Show | Various Characters | |
| 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 |
| Birdman and the Galaxy Trio | Medusa | "The Empress of Evil" | |
| 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" |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour | various characters | ||
| The Little Drummer Boy | Aaron's Mother | TV special | |
| Mouse on the Mayflower | Ms. Charity Blake, various female pilgrims | ||
| 1969 | The Pink Panther Show | additional voices | episode: Pinto Pink/Le Pig-al Patrol/In The Pink |
| Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Gypsy Fortune Teller | "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts" | |
| The Pogo Special Birthday Special | Pogo, Hepzibah | TV special | |
| Frosty the Snowman | Teacher, Karen, Additional voices | TV short; was replaced by Suzanne Davidson as Karen in later airings and by Greg Thomas as Karen's friends | |
| Here Comes the Grump | The Witch | ″Witch Is Witch?″ | |
| 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 New Scooby-Doo Movies | Mrs. Baker | ″The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair″ |
| The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't | TV special | ||
| 1974 | These Are the Days | ||
| 1975 | The White Seal | Mackah | TV special |
| The Hoober-Bloob Highway | Additional voices | ||
| Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Nagaina the Cobra, Teddy's Mom, Darzee's Wife | ||
| Yankee Doodle Cricket | Marsha the Lightning Bug / Queen Bee | ||
| 1976 | Mowgli's Brothers | Mother Wolf | |
| The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show | Various Characters | ||
| The Sylvester & Tweety Show | |||
| 1977 | Bugs Bunny's Easter Special | Granny | TV special |
| 1978 | Fabulous Funnies | Broom-Hilda, Oola, Hans, Additional voices | |
| Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special | Witch Hazel | TV short | |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show | Various Characters | ||
| Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper | Raggedy AnnandComet | 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 |
| Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales | Mrs. Claus, Clyde Bunny | TV special | |
| Bugs Bunny's Valentine Special | Additional voices | ||
| Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet | Millicent / Attractive Rabbit | ||
| The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special | Granny | ||
| 1980 | Sunshine Porcupine | Honey Bunny, Amp Bamp, Rabbit Robot, Bucky, Bunny 2, Bunny 4 | TV Special |
| 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 | |
| The Smurfs Springtime Special | Jokey Smurf / Mother Nature | ||
| The Adventures of Curious George | Narrator | ||
| 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 |
| The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour | Various characters | ||
| A Chipmunk Reunion | Vinny | Uncredited | |
| 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 | |
| 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. Featherby / additional voices | |
| 1988 | Denver, the Last Dinosaur | Bertha | |
| 1988–1989 | A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | Constance McSnack / Granny Sweetwater | |
| 1989 | Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters | Mrs. Belle Dweeb | 2 episodes |
| 1990 | Tom and Jerry Kids Show | Witch | "Doom Manor" |
| 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 |
| Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes | Additional voices | ||
| 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 | |
| Rugrats | Blocky, Svetlana the Spy | "Sour Pickles" | |
| 2 Stupid Dogs | Red Riding Hood's Grandmother | 2 episodes | |
| Bonkers | Ma Barker | "Calling All Cars" | |
| 1994 | The Ren and Stimpy Show | Poopy and Explodey | "Stimpy's Cartoon Show" |
| 1995 | Weird Science | Baby Ruth, Tammy | Voice role Live-action television series |
| Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery | Witch Hazel | TV special | |
| 1995–2000 | The Sylvester & 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" |
| The Bugs n' Daffy Show | Various Characters | ||
| 2001 | Family Guy | Rocky J. Squirrel | "The Thin White Line" |
| 2002–2006 | Baby Looney Tunes | Granny | |
| 2005 | The Powerpuff Girls | Madame Argentina | "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" |
| Duck Dodgers | Lezah the Wicked | "M.M.O.R.P.D." | |
| 2009 | Random! Cartoons | Mall Walker, Old Man #1, Man at Garbage Can, Woman | 2 Episodes |
| 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[56] |
| Mulan Animated Storybook | Grandmother Fa[56] | |
| 1999 | Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time | Granny, Witch Hazel |
| 2000 | Donald Duck Going Quackers | Magica De Spell |
| Looney Tunes: Space Race | Granny | |
| Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters | ||
| 2003 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | |
| 2007 | Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal | |
| 2008 | Disney Think Fast | Magica De Spell |
| 2013 | DuckTales: Remastered |
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Further reading
June Foray withMark Evanierand Earl Kress.Did You Grow Up with Me, Too?: The Autobiography of June Foray.BearManor Media, 2009.ISBN1593934610
External links
- June ForayatIMDb
- June Forayat theTCM Movie Database
- June Foraydiscography atDiscogs
- "Interview with June Foray".Famous Interview.Archivedfrom the original on February 5, 2012.
- June ForayatThe Interviews: An Oral History of Television