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Joan Gerber

{{Short description|American voice actress}}

{{Infobox person

| image =

| name = Joan Gerber

| birth_name = Joanellen Gerber

| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|7|29}}

| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|8|22|1935|7|29}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Voice actress

| years_active = 1959–2003

| spouse = {{marriage|Frank Dowse|1957|1961|reason=divorced}}

| children = 1

}}

Joan Gerber (July 29, 1935 – August 22, 2011) was an American voice actress{{cite book|author=Thomas S. Hischak|title=Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1RTP8thtR0C&pg=PA238|access-date=November 1, 2012|date=September 21, 2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6271-1|page=238}} who provided voices for a variety of cartoons.

Her most challenging voice role was "all the children in a Japanese train wreck" for a Godzilla television episode.{{cite book|author=Hal Erickson|title=Sid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television, 1969-1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMQ6d3yNc5IC&pg=PA24|access-date=1 November 2012|date=April 11, 2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3093-2|page=24}} She voiced Freddy the Flute and other characters for H.R. Pufnstuf, and identified Freddy as a favorite role. She also voiced Ozma, the Queen of Oz, in the TV special Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz.{{cite book|author=Vincent Terrace|title=Encyclopedia of Television: Series, Pilots, and Specials|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKlgjBCPPnsC&pg=PA118|access-date=June 4, 2016|date=November 1, 1985|publisher=VNR AG|isbn=978-0-918432-61-2|pages=118–|quote=... Queen of Oz Joan Gerber}} She was described as talented and possessing a "golden throat" and a "splendid singing voice".{{cite book|author=Hal Erickson|title=Sid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television, 1969-1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMQ6d3yNc5IC&pg=PA23|access-date=November 1, 2012|date=April 11, 2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3093-2|pages=23–25}} She also voiced a syndicated series of roughly one-minute radio spots, "The Story Lady," that parodied children's programming.

Personal life and death

She had one daughter from her marriage to Frank Dowse. She later dated fellow actor Regis Cordic.http://podbay.fm/show/438294853/e/1531551600?autostart=1 19:39

Gerber died on August 22, 2011, at the age of 76.[http://www.filmreference.com/film/49/Joan-Gerber.html Profile], FilmReference.com; accessed June 4, 2016.

name=SAG>[http://www.sagaftra.org/files/sag/documents/ScreenActorMagazine_Fall2011_public.pdf Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200925/http://www.sagaftra.org/files/sag/documents/ScreenActorMagazine_Fall2011_public.pdf |date=2013-10-29 }}, Screen Actor's Guild Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 3, pg. 76 (Fall 2011).

Filmography

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0314119}}
  • [http://www.voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=1266 Joan Gerber at Voice Chasers.com]

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Category:1935 births

Category:2011 deaths

Category:American voice actresses

Category:Actresses from Detroit

Category:Hanna-Barbera people

Category:21st-century American women

Category:20th-century American women