June Foray Stories Part 3

The third part of June's stories. If you knew June, please comment so I can tell your story!


Stu Showstak:
I met June through both Janet Waldo and Mark Evanier.  I was so lucky to have her on my show as much as I did.  She was a wonderful lady.  I think the one thing I didn't know about her while she was alive was that she was JEWISH.  She was a confirmed atheist, but she was born Jewish.  I just found that out a few weeks ago.


Mark Arnold:
I met June Foray twice. The first time in 2009 at Comic Con International in San Diego. We sat side by side at the Van Eaton Galleries booth signing copies of our respective BearManor Media books. Mine was "Created and Produced by Total TeleVision productions"; hers was "Did You Grow Up With Me, Too?" We spoke a bit while we signed. The second time was in 2014 at Van Eaton Galleries where she was signing copies of Darrell Van Citters "The Art of Jay Ward Productions". She was very elderly even at that point, but her sister and brother-in-law were also still with us at the time.


Gavin Freitas:
Here's my story with June Foray... Started back in 2003, I would commute from San Fransisco to Woodland Hills to record June Foray, when I was making student films. While visiting her home, I noticed all the photos and art cels on her walls. She had a lot of interesting stories about her life. I decided to film her talking about her past voice over and acting gigs. The more I would film and come visit June in LA, the more people starting getting involved with the project. It started as a friendly interview that would be about 5 minutes with clips, to a running time of 65 minutes. I couldn't cover her life stories in a 10 minute documentary. I interviewed Phil Roman, Bill Melendez, Eric Goldberg, Tom Kenny, Matt Groening, Bill LittleJohn, Tom Sito, Jerry Beck, Art Leonardi etc. These are people I admired and was excited to hear their side of the story. So 8 plus years later I finished the film and started having screenings. I got to screen it with June and her family, and that was the greatest feeling ever. So thank you June, You have made my life, and incredible one. Huge shot outs to Dave Nimitz, Stephen Nasto, and Tyler Knudsen, Brooks Knudsen, and my wife Rachel Freitas for making it all happen.

For the link to the website about the documentary: http://www.juneforaydoc.com/2017/07/my-life-with-june-foray.html


Also, another great story of June is on our friend Mark Kausler's blog which you will find on my blog side bar.