Pat Welsh ( actress ) - Wikipedia Pat Welsh ( actress ) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This biography needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2010 ) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia 's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention. If notability can not be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources : `` Pat Welsh '' actress -- news newspapers books scholar JSTOR ( February 2016 ) Pat Welsh Patricia Anderson Carroll ( 1915 - 02 - 11 ) February 11, 1915 San Francisco, California, U.S. January 26, 1995 ( 1995 - 01 - 26 ) ( aged 79 ) Green Valley, Arizona, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1940 - 1983 Spouse ( s ) Tom Welsh ( 1961 - 1995 ) ( her death ) Pat Welsh ( born Patricia Anderson Carroll ; February 11, 1915 -- January 26, 1995 ) was an American film actress, known as the raspy voice of E.T. in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life and death 3 Partial filmography 4 Notes 5 External links Career Welsh was a radio soap opera actress and only appeared in three films, most famously as the voice of E.T. in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The only movie in which she was seen was the 1940 WW1 film Waterloo Bridge. As a chain smoker, she had a raspy voice that gave E.T. his trademark speech sound. She also had been hired by George Lucas to be the voice of Boushh in the film Return of the Jedi. Lucas had said he was in the laundromat when he thought her ambiguous voice was perfect. Personal life and death Welsh died of pneumonia on January 26, 1995 in Green Valley, Arizona. Partial filmography Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ) - ( uncredited ) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 ) - E.T. ( voice, uncredited ) Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ) - Boushh ( voice, uncredited ) ( final film role ) Notes Jump up ^ Callo, Jim ( August 23, 1982 ). `` Revealing His Secrets at Last : Director Steven Spielberg Takes the Wraps Off E.T. '', People 18 ( 8 ). Retrieved April 5, 2013. External links Biography portal Pat Welsh on IMDb Pat Welsh at Find a Grave This article about a United States film actor or actress born in the 1910s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Welsh_(actress)&oldid=796641770 '' Categories : 1915 births 1995 deaths American film actresses American voice actresses Deaths from pneumonia Infectious disease deaths in Arizona Actresses from San Francisco People from Green Valley, Arizona 20th - century American actresses American film actor, 1910s birth stubs Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from January 2010 All articles needing additional references Articles with topics of unclear notability from February 2016 All articles with topics of unclear notability Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March 2011 Find a Grave template with ID same as Wikidata All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch فارسی Français Italiano Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 22 August 2017, at 06 : 25. About Wikipedia

Question: who did the voice of et in the movie
Answer: Pat Welsh