June Foray (1917–2017)
Author of Did You Grow up with Me, Too? The Autobiography of June Foray
About the Author
June Foray was born June Lucille Forer in Springfield, Massachusetts on September 18, 1917. In 1929, at the age of 12, she made her debut playing an elderly woman in a radio drama. She portrayed numerous radio characters in the 1930s and 1940s. She went on to provide voices for animated shorts, show more feature films, and television shows, as well as record albums, video games, and even talking toys. In films, she was Lucifer the cat in Walt Disney's Cinderella, a mermaid and a squaw in Peter Pan, and Wheezy Weasel and Lena Hyena in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. On television, she was Cindy-Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Aunt May Parker in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and Rocky and Natasha Fatale in Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show. She received an Emmy for Mrs. Cauldron on The Garfield Show in 2011 and an Emmy Governors Award in 2013. She wrote Perverse, Adverse and Rottenverse, a collection of humorous essays, and Did You Grow up with Me, Too?: The Autobiography of June Foray written with Mark Evanier and Earl Kress. She died on July 26, 2017 at the age of 99. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by June Foray
Associated Works
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas [1966] / Horton Hears a Who! [1970 TV movie] (1997) — Actor — 180 copies, 1 review
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends [1959 TV series] (1959) — Voice — 51 copies, 1 review
The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Vol. 2: Adventures in the Pink (2005) — Actor — 19 copies
Grimm's Fairy Tale Theatre: 6 Classic Stories: Retold by Eric Carle [film] — Actor — 3 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Forer, June Lucille (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1917-09-18
- Date of death
- 2017-07-26
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Classical High School
- Occupations
- voice actor
teacher, voice acting - Organizations
- International Animated Film Association - ASIFA-Hollywood
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (governor)
University of Southern California - Awards and honors
- Hollywood Walk of Fame
Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award (1988) - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Place of death
- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- California, USA
Members
Reviews
June Foray, the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, recalls her career, providing voices for numerous movies and virtually countless cartoon characters. She did a little acting when she started out, but gradually converted over to voice work, which offered more work and plenty of it. Illustrated with photos of her cohorts, the book is a great deal of fun for the fan of those cartoons of years ago. At the back of the book are a few pages each of recollections of other biggies in the field, show more including the gun-toting Paul Frees (Boris Badenov) and Jay Ward, the main man at Rocky and Bullwinkle. Excellent book, I only wish it had been longer. show less
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- Popularity
- #449,941
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
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