{"id":1666,"date":"2016-06-15T11:52:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:31:07","slug":"janet-waldo-voice-over-actress-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/janet-waldo-voice-over-actress-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Waldo, Voice Over Actress, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her big break into voice acting was a lead role for a radio show at CBS called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMeet<\/span><\/i><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Corliss Archer.\u201d<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &nbsp;It was a show that ran for over a decade, from the early 1940 to mid-1950\u2019s. &nbsp;She voiced the girl next door, fifteen year old Corliss Archer herself. &nbsp;She did another radio show in 1944 where she played Emmy Lou in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.\u201d &nbsp;Other radio shows followed to spice up her career like <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Eddie Bracken Show<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Gallant Heart<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Sears Radio Theater<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Stars over Hollywood<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Josie-and-the-pussycats.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1670 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Josie-and-the-pussycats-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"Josie and the pussycats\" width=\"164\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Josie-and-the-pussycats-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Josie-and-the-pussycats.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Janet Waldo landed her first animated role in 1962 when Hanna-Barbera cast her for the voice of yet another teenager, Judy Jetson. &nbsp;Having originated the character, Ms. Waldo couldn\u2019t hide her heartbreak when the studio released a movie on the Jetson\u2019s in 1990 and replaced her with a pop artist to voice Judy Jetson in order to gain more ticket sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was also the voice behind yet another spunky teenager, Josie in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Josie and the Pussycats<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for eight episodes that began in 1970. &nbsp;This was again produced by Hanna-Barbera and was about the adventures of an all-girl rock and roll and their manager who didn\u2019t really always have their best interests at heart. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Flintstones-e1465944760897.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1669 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Flintstones-e1465944760897-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"The Flintstones\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Flintstones-e1465944760897-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Flintstones-e1465944760897.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On a different note from the teenage roles she had, Janet Waldo also became the voice behind Fred Flintstone\u2019s bullying mother-in-law in <em>The Flintstones<\/em>.She later on appeared in TV shows like \u201c<em>Get Smart\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cI Love Lucy\u201d<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Janet Waldo died in her home in Encino, California. &nbsp;According to family she has been battling cancer. &nbsp;&nbsp;was preceded in death by her husband and playwright, Robert E. Lee. &nbsp;Her career began while studying at the University of Washington where her performance as a student in theater brought her to the attention of Bing Crosby and who introduced her to Paramount Pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her big break into voice acting was a lead role for a radio show at CBS called \u201cMeetCorliss Archer.\u201d &nbsp;It was a show that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[279,36],"tags":[370,433,88],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}