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Blogs > hotfun_1966 > Adventures in Life

Don't ya just love June Foray's voices?  

hotfun_1966 57M
247 posts
7/27/2017 11:18 pm
Don't ya just love June Foray's voices?

... or "Goodbye Rocket J. Squirrel".

So long to animation's leading voiceover actress, June Lucille Forer (with her stage name Foray reflecting the correct pronunciation of her last name), who died July 27 at age 99, less than two months short of 100.

If you saw an animated short or feature in the last 60 years, chances are good June Foray provided voices for them. From Broom Hilda and Granny in the WB Looney Toons shorts, to The Jetsons and The Smurfs for H-B, and even appearing on The Simpsons, she did so many voices. She even provided the original voice for the Chatty Cathy doll.

Foray Also fought to create the Annie Awards for recognizing animation voice actors as well as establishing a separate Academy Award category for "Best.animated.Feature", something long-overlooked by the Oscars since the heyday of Walt Disney.

But the show she will always be remembered for is, of course, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, aka Rocky and his friends from 1959-61 on ABC and The Bullwinkle Show from 1961-64 on NBC, and rerun almost perpetually ever since. (And Nell from sister show Dudley Do-Right as well.)

Foray did all the female voices (including über-baddie Natasha Fatale), as well as that of our favorite flying (or lying as Joe Piscopo called him) rodent, Rocket J. Squirrel. Foray provided Rocky's voice in various commercials and guest spots over the next 5 decades, including a reunion with Bill "Bullwinkle" Scott for Joe Piscopo's only comedy album in 1985, New Jersey (just before Scott's sudden death from a heart attack that year).

Her voices shall be greatly missed.

hotfun_1966 57M
3677 posts
7/27/2017 11:20 pm

 "And now here's something we hope you'll really like!" -- June Foray as Rocky


hotfun_1966 57M
3677 posts
7/27/2017 11:27 pm
    Quoting  :
Indeed she was and did.

She even did a parody of herself in the original The Twilight Zone doing the voice for a doll, like the original Chatty Cathy she voiced.


Rumble59 64M

7/28/2017 5:16 am

 Love Rocky and Bullwinkle and have the complete series on DVD. They were ahead of their time and the episodes are still hilarious today. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Rumble in the Jungle


hotfun_1966 57M
3677 posts
7/28/2017 6:21 am
    Quoting Rumble59:
    Love Rocky and Bullwinkle and have the complete series on DVD. They were ahead of their time and the episodes are still hilarious today. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
You are welcome! They were indeed ahead of their time. Jay Ward sure put June to good use on R&B and his other shows (i.e. Nell on Dudley Do-Right).


hotfun_1966 57M
3677 posts
8/12/2017 1:38 pm
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You are welcome Joy.

I watched the Rocky reruns in the early '80s when NBC had them on its Saturday morning cartoon lineup. Those were the days.


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