Legendary voice actress June Foray was born June Lucille Forer on September 18, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Ida , she performed a 13-week stint as a little Mexican girl. However, June had said that she prefers to record behind the scenes because she can earn more money in less time. June Foray died on July 26, 2017, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. She was ninety nine years old.
Though rarely credited, she was the voice of several female characters in many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from Warner Brothers.
Her most famous voice characterization is Rocket J. Squirrel on "Rocky and His Friends" .
Was the last surviving member of "The Great Ones", the voice actors of animations Golden Era, until her death in July 2017 at the age of 99.
ASIFA-Hollywood (the USA chapter of Le Association Internationale du Film DAnimation) has named an award in her honor. "The June Foray Award" is given each year to "an individual who has made a significant and benevolent impact on the art and industry of animation".
Her appearance on "Green Acres" (as an Hispanic telephone operator) is her last on-screen role to date (not including those in which she appeared as herself, such as documentaries, talk shows and award shows). She has an on-screen cameo in Boris and Natasha .
Only one person has ever voiced a character in a remake of an animated series where she had provided the voice in the original. Britt Irvin voices the character Ursula on "George of the Jungle" , which Foray had voiced on the 1960s series.
Was a former faculty member at the University of Southern California.
Was courted by Paul Winchell.
In 2012 she received her first Emmy Award nomination, in the category of Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for her role as Mrs. Cauldron on "The Garfield Show" . At age 94 she was the oldest entertainer to be nominated for, and receive, an Emmy Award.
Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. on July 7, 2000.
June was born on September 18, 1917. The 1940 U.S. Federal Census lists June Forer as 22 years old. The census was taken in April, and Junes birth in September verifies 1917 as year of birth. She is listed as living in Los Angeles, California, and working as a "Radio Artist" in the "Entertainment" industry. Listed in the household are: Morris (51), born in Russia; Ida (42), born in Mass.; Bertrum (25), born in Mass.; June (22), born in Mass.; Geraldine (15), born in Mass.; Father in-Law, Louis Robberson (69), born in Russia.
Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jews, and her mother was of Lithuanian Jewish and French-Canadian descent. Her maternal grandfather, Lewis Robinson, was born in 1872 in Lithuania, when it was part of the Russian Empire. His birth name was either Ludovicius Rabinovicius or Ludwig Rabinowitz. He emigrated to the United States in 1886, entering at Boston with his first cousin Eli Glassman, joining family that lived there. Lewis met his wife, Mary Jane Elizabeth Allard, in Northampton, MA, where they wed in 1891. Mary converted to Judaism to marry Lewis, taking the faith name of Sarah, which is engraved on her headstone in the Jewish cemetery in West Springfield, MA. She passed away on April 1, 1931, from influenza. Ida, Junes mother, was born in Northampton, MA. Lewis was a successful shoe salesman and opened his own store in Springfield (Billy Curtis , who played a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz , worked for him before going into acting). Junes family, along with her grandfather, relocated from Springfield to Los Angeles in 1936, joining other family who were already there and leaving other family behind.
Voice acting mentor and friends with Katie Leigh and Corey Burton.
Known for her starring role as Grammi Gummi on "Adventures of the Gummi Bears" .
She and her "Adventures of the Gummi Bears" co-star Katie Leigh have done voice-overs in two cartoons together: "The Real Ghost Busters" , in 1989, and four years later, on "All-New Dennis the Menace" , in 1993.
It was because she was the voice of the Chatty Cathy doll that Rod Serling cast her as Talking Tina in "The Twilight Zone" {Living Doll (#5.6)} .
Passed away on July 26, 2017, two months away from what would have been her 100th birthday on September 18.
Iinterviewed in the 2004 book "The Magic Behind the Voices: A Whos Who of Cartoon Voice Actors" by Tim Lawson and Alisa Persons.
My mother and father were artistic people. My mother was a singer and a,pianist. They enjoyed the opera and the theater and movies. And so they,would take us kids to all of the wonderful functions at the Bijou,Theater in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wanted to be a stage actress.
Then I could come home and impersonate all these people I had seen in,the movies. I was an omnivorous reader as well. So, I memorized a lot,of classics. The little old lady that I do actually with Tweety and,Sylvester, I memorized lines from "The Old Woman Shows Her Medals".
