Linda Gary

Linda Gary (born Linda Gary Dewoskin, November 4, 1944 – October 5, 1995) was an American film and television actress[1][2] and voice actress.[3]
Gary worked as a voice-over artist in animation and also appeared in two live-action films, 1977's Joyride To Nowhere with husband Charles Howerton and 1980's Cruising[2] with Al Pacino. She lent her voice in such movies as Wolfen[2] and Switch.[2]
Linda voiced different characters on several Hanna-Barbera television series; Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Smurfs as Dame Barbara in one episode, Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats as Mrs. Vandergelt, The Pirates of Dark Water, where she did additional voices and Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron as Doctor Abby Sinian. She voiced Queen Morbidia & Nicara in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.
During the 1980s, Gary did several guest voice-over appearances in such Disney television series as Darkwing Duck,[2] DuckTales, TaleSpin, The Little Mermaid series and Bonkers. She voiced a gazelle and a hippo on the Lion King read-along cassette story, The Brightest Star. She also voiced Maleficent and the Opening narrator in 'Fantasmic'. She voiced Muffy Vanderschmere in TaleSpin.
Linda voiced Colleen in an episode of the short-lived 1981 Spider-Man with Ted Schwartz as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, and voiced Aunt May in the first season of the 1994-1998 Spider-Man with Christopher Daniel Barnes as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. She was later replaced by Julie Bennett.
Her voice acting was mostly for the Filmation studio. She voiced characters in several of Filmation's TV series such as The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!, BlackStar, and as the title character in Web Woman.
Linda voiced Jane on an episode of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.
Gary also did voice work on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (initially miscredited as "Linda Gray"[4]) and She-Ra: Princess of Power. She was reunited with fellow voice over actors Alan Oppenheimer and George DiCenzo from BlackStar.[3] She provided many of the female voices on He-Man such as Teela, Evil-Lyn, the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull and Queen Marlena as well as several from She-Ra like Madame Razz, Glimmer, Shadow Weaver, Scorpia and Entrapta.
She voiced several films for Filmation such as He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special[2] and Happily Ever After[2] as Critterina and Marina.
Gary voiced the role of Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure,[2] The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving[2] and The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists.[2]
Category:Voice Actresses