Thanks for the update. So sorry to hear. Hardly a day goes by that one of her voice characterizations doesn't go thru my memory. Having grown up watching so many Looney Tunes, Rocky and Bullwinkle and other cartoons in which she voiced, her voice(s) remain permanently fixed in my mind. RIP, wonderful lady! Thank you for a lifetime of heartwarming laughs!
June Foray's first feature film work came in Walt Disney's CINDERELLA, voicing the character "Lucifer" the cat. The 1950 film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske. The film's soundtrack first appeared on CD in 1997 and was most recently released in 2015 as part of Disney's Legacy Collection.
Foray voiced one of the mermaids in Disney's PETER PAN. The 1953 film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske. The film's soundtrack first appeared on CD in 1993, and then appeared in an expanded format in 1998.
Foray also did dubbing for non-animated films as well. In 1961 she did voice-over work for the English language version of Steve Reeve's follow-up to the HERCULES pictures -- THE WHITE WARRIOR. Riccardo Freda directed the sword and sandal epic. Roberto Nicolosi's score was released by Digitmovies in 2007.
In 1959, June Foray began voicing two of her best known characters, "Rocket J. Squirrel" (aka "Rocky the Flying Squirrel") and "Natasha Fatale" the female half of the spy team "Boris and Natasha." The show was originally titled ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS, but over decades of network changes, repeats, syndication, and video would be known as "The Bullwinkle Show", "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends," and others. Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced the series. Much of the music was provided by Frank Comstock and Dennis Farnon.
Another character voiced by Foray was "Nell Fenwick," paramour of "Dudley Do-Right," Canada's dumbest member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The pair often appeared on a segment of "The Bullwinkle Show."
Foray made a rare on-camera appearance in a dramatic role in the 1966 television production of DEATH OF A SALESMAN, which starred Lee J. Cobb as "Willy Loman". Foray played "Jenny," the secretary to "Charley" (Edward Andrews), Willy's neighbor, and someone who offers Willy a job many times during visits to his office. Alex Segal directed the film, which was scored by Robert Drasnin.
Foray was the voice of "Tanya Malichite" in the 1966 animated musical spy comedy THE MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE. The film was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Score tracks by Marty Paich and Ted Nichols, as well as songs by John McCarthy and Doug Goodwin, all appeared on the soundtrack LP released by HannaBarbera Records.
Foray was the voice of "Cindy Lou Who" in the 1966 Christmas classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Chuck Jones and Ben Washam directed the film. The film's score (by Eugene Poddany) and songs (by Albert Hague) were released on a Leo (MGM) Records LP. Its most recent CD release came from WaterTower in 2013.
"Off To See the Wizard" was a family-oriented TV series, produced by MGM, in which guest hosts and animated versions of THE WIZARD OF OZ characters were used as wrap-arounds to introduce various family-oriented films from the MGM film library (LILI, THE GLASS SLIPPER, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN among others), usually shown in two parts. June Foray was the voice of "Dorothy Gale" and the "Wicked Witch of the West" in the wrap-around segments. ABC premiered the show on 8 September 1967 at 8 PM, opposite "The Wild Wild West" on CBS and "Tarzan" on NBC. It lasted only a single season.
In the 1968 animated Christmas television special "The Little Drummer Boy", June Foray voiced the role of "Aaron's (the Drummer Boy's) Mother." The film was directed by Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr., and Takeya Nakamura. Maury Laws scored the film.
In the animated television special of Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hears a Who!", Foray provided the voice of "Jane Kangaroo," as well as several of the "Whos," including again "Cindy Lou Who." The film was directed by Chuck Jones and Ben Washam. Eugene Poddany scored the film and provided the songs, including one, "Mrs. Toucanella Told Me ," sung by June Foray. The soundtrack was released on CD by Rhino in 1999.
In the combination live-action and animated feature THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, Foray voiced three characters: "Ralph," "Faintly Macabre," and "Princess of Pure Reason." Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow directed the animated sequences, with David Monahan directing the live action segments. Dean Elliott scored the 1970 film.