June Foray is credited with the establishment of the Annie Awards, as well as being instrumental in the creation of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001.
15 Facts About June Foray
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June Foray Lucille Forer was born on September 18,1917, in Springfield, Massachusetts, one of three children of Ida and Morris Forer.
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On radio, June Foray did the voices of Midnight the Cat and Old Grandie the Piano on The Buster Brown Program, which starred Smilin' Ed McConnell, from 1944 to 1952.
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Decades later, June Foray was the voice of Grandmother Fa in the 1998 animated Disney film Mulan.
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In 1959, she auditioned for the part of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones and voiced the character in the original pilot episode, opposite Mel Blanc who voiced Betty's husband, Barney Rubble, but Bea Benaderet was eventually cast in the role; June Foray described herself as "terribly disappointed" at not getting to play Betty.
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June Foray did extensive voice acting for Stan Freberg's commercials, albums, and 1957 radio series, memorably as secretary to the werewolf advertising executive.
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June Foray is credited with coming up with the idea of the Annie Awards in 1972, awarded by ASIFA-Hollywood, having noted that there had been no awards to celebrate the field of animation.
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In 2007, June Foray became a contributor to ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Archive Project.
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In 1996 and 1997, June Foray won the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production for her work in Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries.
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In November 2009, June Foray appeared twice on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: in one episode as Ruth, a pie-maker trapped in Bubbie's stomach, and in another episode as Kelly, a young boy having a birthday party and as Kelly's Mom and Captain K'Nuckles' kindergarten teacher.
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In 2012, June Foray received her first Emmy nomination and won in the category of Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for her role as Mrs Cauldron on The Garfield Show.
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June Foray reprised her role of Rocky in a Rocky and Bullwinkle short film, which was released in 2014.
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In 1973, June Foray was an organizer of a meat boycott in response to President Nixon's freezing of meat prices.
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June Foray died at a hospital in Los Angeles, California, on July 26,2017, at the age of 99.
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June Foray had been in declining health since an automobile accident in 2015.