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June Foray, the voice of many cartoon characters including The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, has passed away at the age of 99, just two months short of her 100th Birthday.
She brought a lot of laughs and fun to a lot of people, adults and kids alike and will truly be missed.
God Bless and keep you, June Foray. You will be missed and thank you for all you gave us.
Catherine Linda Michel
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Wonderful funny lady
She will be missed.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Godspeed, Rocket J. Squirrel!
A sad day here in Frostbite Falls, but she left the world a better place. Or funnier anyway...
"Government will only recognize 2 genders, male + female,
as assigned at birth-" (In his own words:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU
Great memories with my mom
I had to be 4 years old when I used to watch reruns of Rocky and Bullwinkle with my mom. I would laugh so hard and loved Rocky’s spunk and voice. I wanted to be Rocky. I also would wait for them to mention McKeesport PA. That is the hometown ofone of the writers for the show and also mine.
If they did not mention McKeesport, the show only did a couple of times, my mom would do her Rocky imitation for me. We would also walk around McKeesport before she did some shopping to look for those two. I would try to sound like Boris and saw where is crazy how moose and squirrel.
I totally forgot about that, but the sad news of her passing brought back another great memory of my mom. I know she would have brought up what I just told you tonight when I call home.
I recognized her name as
I recognized her name as being the voice of Rocky, it was part of a trivia bit that said the boy squirrel was played by a beautiful woman! I didn't know she voiced Granny and Witch Hazel in Loony Toons, Grammi Gummi in the Gummi Bears, and Magica De Spell from DuckTales too! Some of the best ladies from my childhood all played by the same actress!
She's been around so long and played so many memorable characters that you have to have heard her voice at some point. You never know her name but you know her voice. A true loss for us all...
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
Drip, Drip, Drip
It will certainly come out that Natasha was one of the people at the table at the infamous Trump Towers' meeting.
Although my favorite June Foray character was Cindy Lou Who.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
One of my heroines is gone
I'm saddened to learn of June Foray's passing. She gave voices to two diametrically opposite characters- Rocky, an innocent, eternally optimistic force for good and Natasha, jaded, self serving arch villain. Her inflections made these two dimensional cartoon characters ever so real.
Rocky and Bullwinkle was one of my childhood obsessions. That show nurtured my (still horrible) sense of humor. Much to the delight of my father and the chagrin of my mother and teachers for the rest of my academic life, Rocky and Bullwinkle and their companion cartoons, Fractured Fairly Tales, Aesop And Son,Dudley Do-Right and finally Mr. Peabody And Sherman sharpened my budding skill for punning and taught me to look for and appreciate the ironies in life.
As soon as I get home from work on Friday, it is going to be a Rocky and Bullwinkle marathon all waking hours of the weekend.
And, just for a bit of trivia, Bullwinkle Moose got his name from a Chevy dealer in Berkeley California. Jay Ward was from Berkeley and Clarence Bullwinkel , an auto dealer was his friend, and for whom he named a certain moose.
Interestingly, I was thinking
Interestingly, I was thinking about the Rocky and Bullwinkle show and intending to look up the name of the voice actor/ress(es).
"I'll save you, Nell!"
(The show banned in parts of Canada for making fun of the RCMP)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Well Hokie Smoke
She is one of the seminal cartoon voice actors, along with Mel Blanc.
Thank you for bringing joy to my childhood June.
Iconic Voices...
...of the kind where everyone playing a similar character afterward is expected to sound the same way, the way just about every pirate is doing Robert Newton's Long John Silver and (of course) every traditional vampire is Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula. (Though in the latter case, Steve Allen claims that actually they're all doing Pat Harrington's imitation of Lugosi, from Allen's television shows.)
Anyway, Foray had at least two of them -- Granny (from Tweety and Sylvester, for Warner) and Witch Hazel (Disney, backing Donald Duck, and Warner, for Bugs Bunny) Foray, of course, did many of those succeeding roles herself -- various witches in Jay Ward's "Fractured Fairy Tales", among others. But in her memoir, "Did You Grow Up With Me, Too? (2009)", she relates that she got the Mother Nature role in Hanna-Barbera's Smurfs series in a blind tape audition because everyone else who applied was imitating Granny and she took a different, ditzier approach to the role. (She was also Jokey Smurf and various background characters.)
And of course she worked with Stan Freberg on radio and records in the 1950s and 60s, though few of his sketches really had major female roles. She was the title character, so to speak, in "The Quest for Bridey Hammerschlagen", parodying a popular book of the time about an American woman who, in hypnotic sessions, seemed to be channeling a previous life in Ireland as Bridey Murphy.
Eric