June Foray Net Worth

June Foray's Quotes

• My mother and father were artistic people. My mother was a singer and a pianist. They enjoyed the opera and the theater and movies. And so they would take us kids to all of the wonderful functions at the Bijou Theater in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wanted to be a stage actress. Then I could come home and impersonate all these people I had seen in the movies. I was an omnivorous reader as well. So, I memorized a lot of classics. The little old lady that I do actually with Tweety and Sylvester, I memorized lines from "The Old Woman Shows Her Medals". It's a play by J.M. Barrie. Oh my goodness, I just did so many impersonations of stars, and read William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde and "The Importance of Being Ernest". It was a very exciting life.
• I'd hate to be stranded on a desert island, unless it were Hawaii, but I'd certainly enjoy seeing these films over and over until rescued.
• I love everything I do with all of the parts that I do because there's a little bit of me in all of them. We all have anger and jealousy and love and hope in our natures. We try to communicate that vocally with just sketches that you see on the screen and make it come alive and make it human. That's what I enjoy doing.
• I had already been working at Disney and Warner Brothers, doing a multiplicity of voices. Jay Ward and Bill Scott had this wonderful idea of a moose and a squirrel. My agent called and said, "Have you ever heard of Jay Ward?" and I said "No". He said, "Well, he wants to take you to lunch." So I met Bill and Jay at a restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard. that is no longer in existence. However, Jay knew precisely whom he wanted. He didn't want anybody else. So nobody ever auditioned for Jay. He just said, "I want June Foray".
• [on celebrities being cast over professional voice actors] We are all doing supplementary parts while Cameron Diaz is getting paid $10 million. The stars receive millions of dollars for doing voices for animated films, and then there is the poor actor who has to struggle to make at least $15,000 a year just to keep his benefits. A lot of the young people--wonderful, good, solid voice actors--have families and are buying homes, and work is bad for them. Frankly, I don't think simply because a star's name is on it that is going to sell the film if it's not good. You get big stars doing live-action films, and if it's a flop, their appearance doesn't alter the basic outcome.

Interesting Facts about June Foray

1. Though rarely credited, she was the voice of several female characters in many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from Warner Brothers.
2. Her most famous voice characterization is Rocket J. Squirrel on Rocky and His Friends (1959).
3. Was the last surviving member of "The Great Ones", the voice actors of animation's Golden Era, until her death in July 2017 at the age of 99.
4. ASIFA-Hollywood (the US chapter of Le Association Internationale du Film D'Animation) has named an award in her honor. "The June Foray Award" is given each year to "an individual who has made a significant and benevolent impact on the art and industry of animation".
5. Her appearance on Green Acres (1965) (as an Hispanic telephone operator) is her last on-screen role to date (not including those in which she appeared as herself, such as documentaries, talk shows and award shows). She has an on-screen cameo in Boris and Natasha (1992).
6. Only one person has ever voiced a character in a remake of an animated series where she had provided the voice in the original. Britt Irvin voices the character Ursula on George of the Jungle (2007), which Foray had voiced on the 1960s series.
7. Was a former faculty member at the University of Southern California.
8. In 2012 she received her first Emmy Award nomination, in the category of Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for her role as Mrs. Cauldron on The Garfield Show (2008). At age 94 she was the oldest entertainer to be nominated for, and receive, an Emmy Award.
9. Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. on July 7, 2000.
10. Born on September 18, 1917. The 1940 U.S. Federal Census lists June Forer as 22 years old. The census was taken in April, and June's birth in September verifies 1917 as year of birth. She is listed as living in Los Angeles, CA, and working as a "Radio Artist" in the "Entertainment" industry. Listed in the household are: Morris (51), born in Russia; Ida (42), born in Mass.; Bertrum (25), born in Mass.; June (22), born in Mass.; Geraldine (15), born in Mass.; Father in-Law, Louis Robberson (69), born in Russia.
11. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jews, and her mother was of Lithuanian Jewish and French-Canadian descent. Her maternal grandfather, Lewis Robinson, was born in 1872 in Lithuania, when it was part of the Russian Empire. His birth name was either Ludovicius Rabinovicius or Ludwig Rabinowitz. He emigrated to the United States in 1886, entering at Boston with his first cousin Eli Glassman, joining family that lived there. Lewis met his wife, Mary Jane Elizabeth Allard, in Northampton, MA, where they wed in 1891. Mary converted to Judaism to marry Lewis, taking the faith name of Sarah, which is engraved on her headstone in the Jewish cemetery in West Springfield, MA. She passed away on April 1, 1931, from influenza. Ida, June's mother, was born in Northampton, MA. Lewis was a successful shoe salesman and opened his own store in Springfield (Billy Curtis, who played a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz (1939), worked for him before going into acting). June's family, along with her grandfather, relocated from Springfield to Los Angeles in 1936, joining other family who were already there and leaving other family behind.
12. Voice acting mentor and friends with Katie Leigh and Corey Burton.
13. Known for her starring role as Grammi Gummi on Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985).
14. She and her Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985) co-star Katie Leigh have done voice-overs in two cartoons together: The Real Ghostbusters (1986), in 1989, and four years later, on All-New Dennis the Menace (1993), in 1993.
15. It was because she was the voice of the Chatty Cathy doll that Rod Serling cast her as Talking Tina in The Twilight Zone: Living Doll (1963).
16. Passed away on July 26, 2017, two months away from what would have been her 100th birthday on September 18.
17. Iinterviewed in the 2004 book "The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors" by Tim Lawson and Alisa Persons.
18. Rumored to have been a model for Tiger Lily and the mermaids in Disney's 'Peter Pan'.
19. She was a lifelong liberal Democrat.
20. June Foray wrote and acted in radio plays for the Office of Civilian Defense, during World War II. She also acted in the Claire Booth Luce play, "The Women", at Army bases around California for the USO.