Natasha Fatale from Rocky and Bullwinkle, one of the many characters voiced by June Foray
June Foray, a cartoon voice for decades, has died at 99, according to an obituary posted by Variety.
Her many credits include Rocky and Bullwinkle, where she voiced Rocky the Flying Squirrel and villain Natasha Fatale.
She was also a voice on Warner Bros. cartoons for characters such as Granny and Witch Hazel. Foray eventually got on-screen credits on those cartoons.
Foray also did “bumpers” for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. telling viewers the show would return after station identification and to stay tuned for previews of the next week’s episode. One of her bumper recordings was included in a home video release of the series. And she was the voice of Talking Tina, a killer doll in an episode of The Twilight Zone.
June Foray (1917-2017)
“She was, of course, the premier female voice talent of her era,” Mark Evanier, a television and comic book writer wrote of Foray on his blog.
“I don’t know who the runner-up was but whoever it was, she was in a distant second in terms of hours logged voicing cartoons and commercials, dubbing movies, doing narration, appearing on radio shows and records…even providing the voice for talking dolls,” Evanier wrote.
The writer called Foray “a talented workaholic who for decades, drove into Hollywood every weekday early in the morning and went from recording session to recording session until well after dark.”
Foray died less than two months short of what would have been her 100th birthday.
UPDATE: Here’s an excerpt of an interview June Foray did for the Archive of American Television.
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I saw the 1966 tv adaption of Death of a Salesman this year and to my surprise, Foray provided the voice of a boy and a girl heard on a tape recorder. She also played a bit part as a secretary.
I’d always known her as the voice of Rocky — but I had no idea until the last decade that she provided the sexy-sweet voice who told us, “Our Man from U.N.C.L.E. will be back in a moment with a look at next week’s show.”