If only she'd had access to some of the treatments available now that weren't available then. She could still have been giving great performances today.
She was more than a voice actress. She was in National Lampoons European Vacation and visits spots on TV and on an episode of after school special. I thought she was AMAZING.
Danna Hill was one of the greatest voice actors she voice acted little boy characters, Danna unfortunately died from a Diabetes Stroke at the age 32 in July 1996 (that's such a young age to die at)
R.I.P. Dana Hill. She was an awesome American voice actress. Plus, she was really cool. Just remember that her voice of Max Goof will always be better than Jeannie Elias’s.
This video only made me realize how little range she had as a voice actress. The funny thing is as a kid I never really thought about how often her voice would pop up in the cartoons I was watching. I never bothered making the connections of ' this character sounds just like this character.' Her voice just fit those roles perfectly.
Im so sad. I loved her growing up and wished I could've met her as an adult. To thank her and hug her for all the great memories she's brought me and my family. Rest well angel.
She was meant to be the voice of Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons, but for some reason she never showed up for the recording session so Nancy Cartwright voiced him instead.
A lot of people I know hate the "Tom and Jerry: The Movie 1992" because they both talk, but Dana Hill's voice for Jerry was what I ALWAYS imagined his voice sounding like in my head growing up watching the original series. You have no idea how happy I was when I watched the movie for the first time on VHS in daycare and heard her voice for Jerry. She was a huge part of my childhood and it's sad to see her go
Dana Lynne Goetz was born on May 6, 1964, in Encino, Los Angeles, California. She sported blond hair and a pair of green eyes. Dana was born to Sandy Hill, a homemaker, and Ted Goetz, a well-known director and producer of commercials at the time. During her years as a child, she was a master in sports including basketball, swimming, and running. In fact, she was so good, that at age 10, she was positioned third place in the national 880-yard run competition and fourth place in the mile run. A year previousley in 1973, Dana had her first appearance on TV when she was accepted to appear in a YMCA commercial with David Cowens. Her father owned the company that was shooting the commercial. Dana was assigned to spin a basketball on her finger, claiming she could. “I lied, but I learned how to do it in the next few days,” Dana recalled. However, a few weeks after reaching those high sporting acheivements, Dana started feeling dizzy while practicing on the track and collapsed on the spot. It was just a while later that she and her family got the shocking news of Dana’s diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes. As a result, she was forced to stop her sport and athletic career. Not only was Dana depressed about the promising opportunity demising, but she was often ill, and had to adapt to a sugar-free diet and daily insulin shots. “I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly,” Dana said years later. “That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.” Diabetes also affected her phicical growth and appearance, giving the impression of being a child or adolescent for the rest of her life. During her early teenage years, she found an interest in acting and decided to stick with it. Her father insisted that Dana not go for an acting career, saying that the business is too hard on kids, but she ignored him and headed toward a bright future path. One of her first jobs was appearing as a little girl scout in an episode of the TV show, “Mork and Mindy”, starring young Robbin Williams. She was fourteen at the time, and once her comedic persona left the view of camera, the audience started applauding for her short, but funny performance. From then and on, she would be cast as tweens and teens, taking advantage of her diabetes and not letting it get the best of her. She took her mother’s maiden name “Hill” as her last name to avoid nepotism if she used her father’s last name. In 1979, she made an appearance on “The Paul Williams Comedy Show” and three episodes of “The French Atlantic Affair” as Maggie Joy. Her next role in 1980 would prove to be one of the hardest roles of her career. She had to portray a schizophrenic kleptomaniac child named Michelle in the ABC television special, “What Are Friends For.” She also starred in the Disney film, “The Kids Who Knew Too Much,” and an episode of “Magnum, P.I” that same year. The next year, Dana appeared in the television special, “Fallen Angel,” portraying a twelve year old girl who was driven into posing for pornography and sexually harrassed by a mentaly sick man. She won the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Television Special for the role. Later that year, she got a major role in the television series, “The Two of Us”, for which she was nominated for yet another Young Artist Award for Best Young actress in a Television Series. During that time, 17 year old Dana was often the attention of police on the road, looking too young to drive. She was ofted embarrassed revealing her age. In 1982, Dana appeared in “Shoot the Moon”, appearing as Sherry Dunlap, a girl of a divorced father thinking of marrying another woman and starting a new family. The Washington Post said her performance was “one of the greatest adolescent performances ever filmed.” There was even talk of her being an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress! From 1982 to early 1985, Dana played multiple characters in film and shows. She got a big break in 1985 when Dana appeared alongside Chevy Chace in the highly praised, box-ofice-smash, “National Lampoon’s European Vacation,” portraying Audrey Griswold. Though it was a fun experience for twenty-one year old Dana Hill, there was one scene where Audrey dreams of consuming large amounts of sugary sweets, which was dangerous to the diabetic actress. Dana had to make sure she chewed, but not swallow any of the sweets. During this time, she participated in a game show called “Body Language” with host, Tom Kennedy. After performing in roles into 1986, her diabetes grew worse and her damaged kidneys caused her cheeks to become somewhat puffy and less childlike. Also, she started suffering from gastroparesis, which caused trouble digesting food. She stopped getting major casting roles. With another career turned upside down, it seemed hopeless for Dana at this point. Fortunately, her vocal cords barely, if not at all, changed during this time, and decided to head towards a third career, with it focused on voice acting. One of her first voice works were in the animated television series, “Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures” as Scrappy Mouse. She then went on to appear in “Dink, the Little Dinosaur,” “Rover Danagerfield,” “Rugrats,” “Darwing Duck,” and so on. Her last major film role was in 1992 as Jerry Mouse with Richard Kind as Tom in the film, “Tom and Jerry: The Movie.” However, she did gain some recognizable television show roles, such as Max Goof in “Goof Troop” and “Goof Troop Christmas,” also in 1992. Through all that, she was known for her childish, raspy voice which engaged audiences young and old. She continued to do voice acting roles, such as in “Duckman” and simple roles in TV shows, such as Disney owned shows, to add on to her successful voice acting career which spanned nearly ten years until early 1996. In 1995, Dana started experiencing some mood swings and she would often rely on her peers for confort and took anti-depressant medication. She chose not to rely on her parents. Probably because of this, she steered away from her sugar-free diet and led to her unfortunate end. Her mother said, “She did not take as good care of herself as she should have.” In the spring of 1996, she started feeling seriously unwell as her diabetes were growing even worse, being hospitalized several times. Near the end of May, Dana slipped into a diebetic coma, which effectively put an end to her voice acting career. On June 5, she suffered a paralytic stroke. Although she did wake up a few times, she could only communicate by moving and blinking her eyes. Fourty days later on July 15, 1996, Dana Hil sadly passed away at the age of 32. She may be gone, but her roles in film and television, her courage, her kindness, and legacy will live in her works and contributions forever.
If I'm not mistaken, I think he did the voice of JiJi, Kiki's cat from Kiki's Delivery Service while Kirsten Dunst did the voice of the title character.
I heard of her because of National Lampoons European Vacation. I didn't know she did cartoon shows from the 90s. However, it's still sad to see her die at a young age.
I wonder who Dana would be voicing now if she had lived longer. She was so good with her voice that if you didn’t know it was her you’d think it was an actual boy voicing them. They were definitely her specialty! R.I.P.
dana died of being a diabetic but she will always be loved and missed she will always be my favorite audry from the vacation frachise rip dana you had a great wonderful talent acting in front of the camera and behind the mike as well god bless dana and thank you
I first learned about Dana through her appearance on "Faerie Tale Theatre". I had no idea at the time that she did so much voice over work. And she sure had quite a knack for it. Such a shame she died so young. RIP, Dana.
Thanks for including Duckman. I thought you'd end up leaving it out because it was obviously never aimed toward a young audience. Dana Hill as Charles and E.G. Daily as Mambo was a winning combination, because they both have that tomboy voice :) Thanks for the upload.
Gone too soon. Loved her as the beautiful princess on Faerie Tale Theatre's "Boy Who Left Home to Find Out about the Shivers." She had tremendous range as a voice and on-camera actor.
Makes sense, the main necessity here is not variability but a woman voicing a convincing prepubescent boy since a real one would age and loose their child voice. Women are relatively good at voicing young boys but it can be hard for them to have a range of distinctive voices for them, that’s why instead of voicing many boys in a single show, they instead voice one and then maybe a little girl too or a couple of background characters and then move on to other shows to voice over.
I remember her mostly from Duckman when I watched the series again about maybe 6 years ago or so I saw the episode where they said in memory of her. It was heart breaking to say the least. There are so many voices in this world. I love this channel this content makes me relive so many nostalgic memories.
Among all the voices she’s ever done in her lifetime, she was more committed to Rugrats with multiple character roles compared to all these other notable ones.
She was originally meant to do the voice of Nelson Muntz; but she couldn't make it to the recording of Bart the General, so Nancy Cartwright had to provide the voice instead.
Her general voice for voicing boy characters in cartoons wasn't too dissimilar from that of Pamela Adlon and Jeannie Elias, although the latter's is more raspy like with Bobby Hill and others.
A lot of people don't know this but she was a pretty good actor, too. She was in a short-lived sitcom called, "The Two Of Us" with Peter Cook and Mimi Kennedy. And she was a revelation in "Shoot The Moon" with Albert Finney and Diane Keaton. She left us way too early.
Wait a second one second I always thought she the pink gummy bear? always thought so when I was a kid watching my vhs of Tom and Jerry the movie she was the pink gummy bear off the of Disney gummy bears i dearly love her as max goof on Goof Troop she is so much of my childhood as she appeared on cartoons I watch thank you for uploading this it helps me remember the good times in my life😊
Oh man yeah I’ve heard about Dana Hill before, she was a good woman. What was really sad is about how she passed away from diabetic shock. But anyway, I remember her playing as Jerry in that Tom and Jerry movie from 1993. That was the only movie where Tom and Jerry had speaking roles. That movie was my childhood. If only if I could’ve met her. If she was alive today, I would thank her for playing in the movie of the cartoon franchise that I loved so much as a child. And I also remember of how she played as Goofy’s son Max from Goof Troop. I started watching the series last year and finished it a few months ago. Man that show was crazy, from Pete taking advantage of Goofy and his wife Peg having to set him straight. I didn’t understand of why she stayed married to him before being cut out of the Goofy movie. He was nothing but a con man and a bully. Playing as Jerry was my favorite role of all. And even as an adult, I still find it crazy that they talked cause they rarely talked at all in the cartoons but they probably never tried. There’s a first time for everything after all.
Dana was in a TV production of "A member of the Wedding",in a serious live action role. Pearl Bailey did the Ethel Waters role, and Dana did the Julie Harris part.
I loved her in The Two of Us with Mimi Kennedy and Peter Cook. What a brilliant show that was. Censors pulled it off I heard. She was ok in Vacation, but not much of a chance in that film. It was so sad when she died so very young. I always hoped she would get another staring role again in live action but fate said no.
