Merrie Virginia Eggers, known professionally as Ginny Tyler, was an American voice actress who performed on dozens of cartoons and animated films from 1957 to 1993.
11 Facts About Ginny Tyler
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Later her parents were divorced and her mother remarried and Ginny Tyler's step-father adopted Ginny Tyler and she became Merrie Virginia Eggers.
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Ginny Tyler grew up in Seattle and her family had a rich legacy of storytelling and imitation of animal sounds, which proved very useful to her later on in her career as an artist.
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Ginny Tyler first appeared before a radio microphone sometime in the 1930s and co-hosted, alongside Al Priddy the radio show Make Believe Island on KOL station.
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Ginny Tyler began to work more and more offscreen as a voice artist, appearing in several cartoons and narrating vinyl recordings of Disney films like Bambi and Babes in Toyland.
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Ginny Tyler provided the voice of an amorous squirrel who falls in love with the young King Arthur in The Sword in the Stone.
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Ginny Tyler sang the voices of several barnyard animals in the "Jolly Holiday" sequence of Mary Poppins.
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Ginny Tyler was replaced by Nancy Wible, who had a similar voice, but would use a louder tone than Ginny.
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In 1964, Ginny Tyler appeared as the Genie in several performances of Aladdin and His Genie for the Pasadena Playhouse.
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Ginny Tyler played Jan on Space Ghost and Sue Richards, the Invisible Woman in the 1978 television series Fantastic Four.
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Ginny Tyler died on July 13,2012, aged 86 at a Washington nursing home.