June Foray

June Foray (full name June Lucille Forer) was a voice-over artist of Jewish, Canadian, French, and Ukrainian origins. She was born in Springfield in the United States of America. She was interested in dancing and even enrolled to be trained as a dancer but couldn’t continue after she fell ill with pneumonia. She made her debut on the radio in a drama at the age of 12 years. She was being trained by a speech instructor. She went to Classical High School in Springfield, Massachusetts. After completing her Higher Education she and her family shifted to Los Angeles. By the time she was 15 years old, she was a known name on radio networks like WBZA. In 1937 she started hosting her own radio show Lady Make Believe and also wrote the script. She became a regular on the Jimmy Durante Show and The Lux Radio Theatre in 1930s. She gave her voice to The Buster Brown Program and Smile Time for Steve Allen.

She collaborated with Capitol Records to record albums for children. She had a strong and great association with Walt Disney Walt Disney or Walter Elias Disney was an American >> Read More... . She was the voice behind Lucifer in the movie Cinderella, the mermaid in Peter Pan Story soon >> Read More... , the mother of Lambert in Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Grandmother Fa in Mulan, and Hazel in the short film Trick or Treat. She worked with the production house Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. and gave her voice for The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! She was a part of the comedy radio series 1957 radio series, Frosty the Snowman, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, George of the Jungle, Fractured Flickers, Teen Wolf, The Smurfs Click to look into! >> Read More... , Adventures of the Gummi Bears, and DuckTales among others. Foray also gave her voice for a single episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons is a funny, highly popular American s >> Read More... . The show in its 8th season dedicated an episode to Foray as a mark of respect. She played a stellar role in promoting animation.

She along with others formed Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (ASIFA) and in 1972 started Annie Awards to appreciate animators. The ASIFA in the year 1995 introduced an award category after her name- The June Foray Award, with June Foray being the first recipient. She was seen on the screen in a single episode of Green Acres, in the feature film Sabaka, in a cameo role in Boris & Natasha, and one episode of The Duck Factory. In the year 2000, she again voiced the character Rocky for The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle produced by Robert De Niro A legendary actor and one of the most influential >> Read More... . She also voiced over the villain for one episode of The Powerpuff Girls. In 2009, she was was a part of 2 episodes of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. In 2011, she was once again heard in her most popular role of Granny for The Looney Tunes Show on Cartoon Network. The same year she was felicitated at the Scream Awards with the Comic-Con Icon Award.

She won her first Emmy nomination and award in the year 2012 for playing Mrs. Cauldron in The Garfield Show From the kid to the old, everyone likes fantasy mo >> Read More... , in the Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program category. She was awarded the Annie Award for her voice acting in the Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries in the category of Outstanding Achievement by a Female Performer. At the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Foray received the Governor’s Award. She was the oldest artist to be nominated for an Emmy and to win an Emmy, aged 94. Apart from this, she had also been awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award (1988). Foray was married twice, first to Bernard Barondess which was short-lived and then to Hobart Donovan till he died in 1976. She died in 2017 two months short of her 100th birthday in California.