Trivia

Was the last surviving member of "The Great Ones", the voice actors of animation's Golden Era, until her death on July 26, 2017 at age 99.

Her most famous voice characterization is Rocket J. Squirrel on The Bullwinkle Show (1959).

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.

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 (1991).

Though rarely credited, she was the voice of several female characters in many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from Warner Brothers.

It was because she was the voice of the Chatty Cathy doll that Rod Serling cast her as Talking Tina in the episode Living Doll (1963).

Passed away on July 26, 2017, two months away from what would have been her 100th birthday on September 18.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, CA on July 7, 2000.

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".

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.

Interviewed in the book "The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors" (2004) by Tim Lawson and Alisa Persons.

After Bea Benaderet left Termite Terrace, all of the characters she performed were taken over by June. They include Witch Hazel and Granny.

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.

Was a former faculty member at the University of Southern California.

Known for her starring role as Grammi Gummi on Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985).

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.

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.

In The Simpsons episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" which aired on February 7, 1997, as the 14th episode of the sitcom's eighth season, the character June Bellamy was modeled after Foray. In addition, she was offered to guest voice the role and, to the producers' great shock and dismay, she declined.

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": Cinderella (1950) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

Rumored to have been a model for Tiger Lily and the mermaids in Disney's Peter Pan (1953).

Voice acting mentor and friends with Katie Leigh and Corey Burton.

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.

She was a lifelong liberal Democrat.