JUNE FORAY: The Many Voices / Characters of (Cartoon Voice Actor) 

From her Wikipedia article, this still sticks with me: Chuck Jones was quoted as saying: "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray."

Wouldn't Tara Strong be the Woman of a Thousand voices??

@@nobod2567 The difference is that June Foray paved the way for Tara Strong and other female voice over artists. And she did it in a time where cartoon voices were almost always male (think Mel Blanc). And she deserves what Chuck Jones said about Mel Blanc being the male June Foray. Before June Foray, women were lucky if they got to do 1 voice in a cartoon. After June Foray, the floodgates were open for women voice artists. It’s only too sad that more people aren’t aware of her and her influence on animation production.

@@7JANEWAY Right thats true, its just the fact how many roles Tara has done over her near 35 year career.

@@nobod2567 Yes she has, and so did June Foray.

darkreigncometh me 2!

darkreigncometh me 3

Me 4, when did she pass away?

darkreigncometh I love Rocky the squirrel.

@@christopherbanks3197 June Foray died back on July 26, 2017.

99 years old???

Almost a centenarian too.

@@oluhamilton2121 Yep. She was 99. 11 × 9.

She was also the voice of Lucifer in Cinderella. And along with Bill Phipps (who voiced the Prince), she was one of only two members of the cast of the original film that lived to see the live action reenactment.

Josh Waldorf yes she was my childhood

@@noelmaldonado5117 I was born in 1998 but she was my childhood as well.

don't forget kath soucie

Don't forget Janet Waldo!

Josh Waldorf so I assume this Jane Is this voice

Chuck Jones was quoted as saying that Mel Blanc was the "male June Foray".

Well said!

here’s how I put the female voiceover artists I grew up with in a timely order: June, Matriarch, Cree summer: queen, Tara Strong, dutchess, Gray DeLisle, princess. IDK where I’d put Lori Alan, but she’s working towards that.

Considering how June and Mel did work together on Looney Tunes, the comparisons make sense.

Natalie Hughes she was talking Tina on the twilight zone.

She died like my Grandma. A few months short of 100 years old

I'm crying😭😭😭😭😭❤

@@2009korz She was 98 actually.

@@Tornado1994 *99

You mean Bill Scott. Blanc was her Manager and Mentor.

Tarabara she was also in The Rugrats

Wasn't she spectacular!

Ever played Ducktales Remastered? She reprised her role as Magica.

Lucifer was played by Frank in Cinderella 2, and many other characters she played were sometimes replaced when she was still around

I have, since it is a part of the rocky show, aka rocky and bullwinkle and friends, aka the bullwinkle show, etc.

Andrea Patane At 8:08 Bruno sounded like Candy Candido.

Do not forget Litle Cindy Lu Who, she was no more than two

Andrea Patane Rocky the squirrel and talking Tina from the twilight zone.

@Kent Huang, My sister has an original Chatty Cathy, that still talks, I repaired it when I was young, the doll is still in great condition

She even did Tom and Jerry

1918-2017.

Did you forget Alan Young????He lived until 2016. Lived to be almost 97.

El Gee she was in the cartoons of Chester the cricket.

She was also in Garfield and Friends as Penelope's mother.

I know, they really should have included her performances in Chuck Jones' Kipling Trilogy especially Mowgli's Brothers which in my humble opinion is her most intense and serious performance.

I didn't know she was one of the weasels.

Witch Hazel, Magica Dispell and Little Cindy Lu Who

MINA HYENA! A MA-YAN!!! LOL.

Almost! She didn't make it to her 100th birthday-2 months off

Nope. She was over a year away from 100.

Brian Brachel Amen to that.

She worked with Mel. She was his FIRST apprentice and Voice Acting student.

One of the most prolific ever. She started voicework at age 12 and stopped at age 96! 84 years working!

@@KTF0 In 2015, she was STILL Working. So was Alan Young.

That Twilight Zone episode wasn't the only time June Foray did voicework for something that was live action. (Though it's certainly the best-known example.) In the 1961 20th Century Fox feature film The Two Little Bears, June Foray did the voice of "Mother Bear", uncredited. In the Season 2 Bewitched episode "Baby's First Paragraph", Endora gives the newborn Tabitha the ability to speak. That was June Foray, again uncredited. In the Season 2 Lost in Space episode "The Questing Beat", June Foray did the voice of the dragon, once again uncredited. (and the knight pursuing the dragon was played by her Dudley DoRight costar Hans Conreid.)

As vocal effects along with Mel Blanc.

Pre-Tress MacNeille is more like it.

September 18,1918.

@@plawson8577 I'm sure i got the right year

Bea would voice Betty Rubble alongside Mel Blanc on the Flintstones.

Banaderet died from Smoking related Lung Cancer. June was a lifelong non smoker and vegan. She hated 2nd hand smoke. Foray did use Amphetamines during the 50s, as most women did at the time. She kicked the habit in 1962. To be fair, Alan Young was a Pipe Smoker, but he quit in 1975 because he was afraid that the habit would damage his vocal cords. He never used another Tobacco product for the remainder of his life.

....and l THINK Marjorie Main did some voices on FRACTURED FAIRYTALES.

@@oluhamilton2121 It could have been June Foray. She did a good impersonation of Marjorie Main, heard in cartoons like "Let's Stick Together" (Donald Duck), "Quackodile Tears" (Daffy Duck) and "Honey's Money" (Yosemite Sam). As I mentioned in another comment about this video, I wish she had done the voice of Maw in Walter Lantz's "Maw and Paw" cartoons. But Walter Lantz's wife Gracie did the voice of Maw, using a voice that sounds nothing like Marjorie Main.

Konsker It was her 2nd Personal Favorite Voice role.

Odd that Magica gets on the list but Natasha Fatale (where she developed that voice) didn't

@@Tornado1994 glad to hear it

We still have Tress MacNeille with us. Yes, June was one of the first, but Tress is as close as we’re gonna get.

99 years old!

@@nancyomalley6441 98. According to the 1920 Census.

VERY Good Friends. First Met each other at KNBC in 1955. Both also got introduced to Mel Blanc in 1958, Mel actually started and Ran an V.A. Agency in 1963, Foray and Young were his first two V.A.s signed on it. Both also worked together in Various HB Cartoons. And BOTH worked together on Alvin And The Chipmunks. Both joined Walt Disney's Buena Vista ADR Production in 1984. Alan Young and June Foray's Friendship lasted for Decades. Young's Family moved him to the Hollywood Retirement Community in Woodland Hills,CA in 2005, Foray's Niece soon followed suit and moved her Aunt to the Community. She and Alan were Neighbors and often shopped,played bingo and walked together. Even STILL doing voice work and STILL capable of it even doing Ducktales Remastered in their 90s! Young, Age 96 Died suddenly from Heart Failure May 19,2016. She actually turned desolate after his death and stopped talking to people, became reclusive and morose, she outlived her Friend by 14 Months, dying in her sleep at the age of 98 on July 26,2017.

@@Tornado1994 i thought she was 99, like 6 weeks shy, or a month and a half shy of 100. Also, i thought June Foray first met and worked with Mel Blanc earlier than 1958, like a few years after WWII ended, or beginning of the 1950's.

initiatorhater0688 Foray was mostly doing Radio Voice Work until 1957. She also had a gig on the Johnny Carson Show back during 1955-1957.

@@plawson8577 June Foray did quite a bit of cartoon voicework prior to 1957. While she was at Disney in the early 1950's , in addition to doing voicework for Cinderella and Peter Pan, she did voicework for Donald Duck and Goofy cartoons, including a recurring role as Goofy's wife. She did voicework for Tex Avery's MGM cartoons like "One Cab's Family", "Little Johnny Jet" and "Car of Tomorrow". After Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera could no longer use Dinah the maid in the Tom and Jerry series, Tom had new owners voiced by Daws Butler and June Foray. (Though someone else did the voice of Joan the wife in the final Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 1950's. Maybe June was too busy at Warner Brothers?) For Walter Lantz she did the voices of Woody Woodpecker's nephew and niece, Knothead and Splinter, who first appeared in the cartoon "Get Lost" (1956).

Blanc was her Manager and Mentor.