Diana Dors

Diana Dors

Diana Dors (October 23, 1931 – May 4, 1984) was a British actress born in Swindon, England as Diana Fluck. She was considered the British equivalent of the blonde bombshells of Hollywood. Her best work as an actress was when she played a murderer in the 1956 film Yield To The Night. She had previously worked with Jack Hylton.

She was once married to future Family Feud game show host Richard Dawson, and later married actor Alan Lake.

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"They asked me to change my name. I suppose they were afraid that if my real name, Diana Fluck, was in lights and one of the lights blew..."

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See the list of her movies and other details at the IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002047). Mel Blanc was the male June Foray.". I suppose they were afraid that if my real name, Diana Fluck, was in lights and one of the lights blew...". Chuck Jones said of her: "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. "They asked me to change my name. Squirrel (Rocky). She was once married to future Family Feud game show host Richard Dawson, and later married actor Alan Lake. Most recognizable, though, is her work for Jay Ward: she played nearly every female on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, including Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick, and (against sex) Rocket J.

She had previously worked with Jack Hylton. She appeared on the Smurfs, George of the Jungle, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas; she was the voice of the original "Chatty Cathy" doll, and is a voice on the Disney attraction "Pirates of the Caribbean" as the wife of the man getting dunked ("Don't tell him, Carlos!"). Her best work as an actress was when she played a murderer in the 1956 film Yield To The Night. For Walt Disney, she played "Lucifer the Cat" in the feature film Cinderella; she did a variety of voices in Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker cartoons; for Warner Brothers she was Granny, owner of Tweety and Sylvester, and, memorably, a series of witches including Witch Hazel for Chuck Jones. She was considered the British equivalent of the blonde bombshells of Hollywood. In the 1940s she began film work as well, including a few appearances acting in live action movies, but mostly doing voice overs for animated cartoons. Diana Dors (October 23, 1931 – May 4, 1984) was a British actress born in Swindon, England as Diana Fluck. Two years later she moved to Los Angeles, California, and soon became a popular voice actress on radio there, including on the national programs of Jimmy Durante and Danny Thomas.

Foray was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years of age; by age of 15 she was doing regular radio voice work. June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is an extremely versatile voice actor who has worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s.