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June Lucille Foray (18 September 1917 - 26 July 2017[2]) 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".[3], in which June played Witch Hazel [4] 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.

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also see Category:Characters voiced by June Foray and Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by June Foray

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