June Foray

June Lucille Foray (18 September 1917 - 26 July 2017http://variety.com/2017/tv/people-news/june-foray-dead-dies-rocky-natasha-bullwinkle-1202508180/) was an American voice actress. She is best known for her long-running voice work for the Looney Tunes cartoons.
She was hired by Chuck Jones to work for Warner Bros. after viewing the 1952 Walt Disney cartoon "Trick or Treat".Cartoon Research, in which June played Witch Hazel http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0045261/ For his part, Jones always said, "June Foray was not the female Mel Blanc, Mel Blanc was the male June Foray!" 
Regardless, Blanc's exclusive on-screen credit for voice work for Looney Tunes relegated her to relative obscurity, until she achieved her own fame in the 1960s Jay Ward TV production of Rocky and Bullwinkle as Rocket J. Squirrel. After that success, Foray would gain her own fame as one of Warner Bros animation's mainstay players, among other accolades.
At the time of her death, she was the longest-surviving voice actor from the Golden Age of Looney Tunes.
== Looney Roles ==
* Penelope Pussycat - "Really Scent"
* Granny
* Witch Hazel
* Millicent
* Mrs. Wolf
* Mama Ape
* Shropshire Slasher's Mother
* Mary
* Dragon Lady
* Honeybunch
* Miss Prissy
* Hen #2
* Hen #3
* Alice Crumden
* Trixie Morton
* Jennene
* Alice
* Junior's Mistress
* Matilda
* Martha Wilbur
* Deer #2
* Hospital P.A.
* Old Lady
* Mrs. Cat
* Marsha
* Goldimouse
* Little Red Riding Hood
* The Wealthy Widow
* Lezah the Wicked
also see :Category:Characters voiced by June Foray
and :Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by June Foray
== Gallery ==
June Foray.jpg
June-mel-and-chuck2.jpg|June with Mel Blanc and Chuck Jones
June tex chuck.jpg|June Foray at the 1974 Annie Awards with Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Art Babbitt
28foray-2-obit-jumbo-v2.jpg|June with Daws Butler and Stan Freberg
Bill-scott.jpg|June with Bill Scott
10550072 10152548937467731 2895489979146663605 o.jpg|June with Corey Burton c. 1980
Tom-kenny-june.jpg|June with Tom Kenny
June1.jpg|June with Maurice LaMarche and Bob Bergen
File:39594123014 5eea5bc783 o.jpg|A tribute to June, following her death
== References ==
 
Category:Voice-actors
Category:Looney Tunes Voice-Actors
Category:Deceased
Category:The Looney Tunes Show
Category:Tiny Toon Adventures
Category:Baby Looney Tunes
Category:Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
Category:Real People
Category:Space Jam
Category:Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Category:Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Category:Featured Person
Category:1917 Births
Category:2017 Deaths
Category:Duck Dodgers
Category:The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries