Linda Gary

Linda Gary (born Linda Gary Dewoskin, November 4, 1944 – October 5, 1995) was an American film, television [1][2] and voice actress.[3]

Linda Gary
Linda Gary in 1971
Born
Linda Gary Dewoskin

November 4, 1944
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
DiedOctober 5, 1995(1995-10-05) (aged 50)
North Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting placeMount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles
OccupationActress, voice actress
Years active1971–1995
Spouse(s)
(
m. 1967)
Children3

Career

Live-action appearances

Gary worked as a voice-over artist in animation and also appeared in two live-action films, 1977's Joyride To Nowhere with husband Charles Howerton and 1980's Cruising[2] with Al Pacino. She lent her voice in such movies as Wolfen[2] and Switch.[2]

Radio

Linda played Dr. Maura Cassidy on Lee Hansen's "Alien Worlds".

Voice over work

Early career

She got her start dubbing Italian films into English while living in Rome with her husband Howerton before returning to the States in 1974.

Gary started going to voice acting classes taught by Daws Butler. She later claimed, "When I got my first voice over job, I just sent Daws the check ... He believed in me, and I really have him to thank for my career."[4]

Hanna-Barbera

Linda voiced different characters on several Hanna-Barbera television series; Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Smurfs as Dame Barbara in one episode, Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats as Mrs. Vandergelt, The Pirates of Dark Water, where she did additional voices and Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron as Doctor Abby Sinian. She voiced Queen Morbidia & Nekara in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.

ABC Weekend Specials

The ABC Weekend Special was a Saturday morning TV series that aired from 1977 to 1997. It featured stories in both the live-action and animated realms. Linda's voice could be heard on Scruffy, The Puppy Saves the Circus, The Amazing Bunjee Venture, The Return of the Bunjee, The Velveteen Rabbit and The Magic Flute.[2]

Disney

During the 1980s, Gary did several guest voice-over appearances in such Disney television series as Darkwing Duck,[2] DuckTales, TaleSpin, The Little Mermaid series and Bonkers. She voiced a gazelle and a hippo on the Lion King read-along cassette story, The Brightest Star. She also voiced Maleficent and the Opening narrator in 'Fantasmic'. She voiced Muffy Vanderschmere in TaleSpin.

Read-Alongs

She narrated Disney read-along stories in 1977; Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and It's a Small World. She also narrated a quartet of the Rainbow Brite read-along stories.

Sunbow/Marvel Productions

Gary voiced several additional characters on the 1984 Transformers animated series. She also voiced Raven, a Cobra Night Raven pilot in the G. I. Joe episode; "In The Presence of Mine Enemies".

Marvel Productions

Gary voiced Colleen in an episode of the short-lived 1981 Spider-Man with Ted Schwartz as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, and voiced Aunt May in the first season of the 1994-1998 Spider-Man with Christopher Daniel Barnes as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. She was later replaced by Julie Bennett.

Filmation

Her voice acting was mostly for the Filmation studio. She voiced characters in several of Filmation's TV series such as The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!, BlackStar, and as the title character in Web Woman.

Linda voiced Jane on an episode of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.

Gary also did voice work on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (initially miscredited as "Linda Gray"[5]) and She-Ra: Princess of Power. She was reunited with fellow voice over actors Alan Oppenheimer and George DiCenzo from BlackStar.[3] She provided many of the female voices on He-Man such as Teela, Evil-Lyn, the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull and Queen Marlena as well as several from She-Ra like Madame Razz, Glimmer, Shadow Weaver, Scorpia and Entrapta.

She voiced several films for Filmation such as He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special[2] and Happily Ever After[2] as Critterina and Marina.

Universal Cartoon Studios

Gary voiced the role of Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure,[2] The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving[2] and The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists.[2] She was later replaced by Miriam Flynn.

Video games

In video games, she provided voices in several adventure games such as King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow as the Oracle, Red Chess Queen, Mother Ghost and Queen Allaria, Thayer's Quest as Lady In The Woodlands and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers as Grandma Knight/Tetelo.

Personal life

Linda Gary Dewoskin was born in California on November 4, 1944. She married actor Charles Howerton on December 21, 1967 and had two daughters, Alexis and Dana.[3] Gary was also stepmother to Howerton's daughter from his previous marriage, Lynn Howerton.[3] She and Charles found acting work in Rome, Italy in the 1970s where they learned Italian and wound up working in films and commercials as well as doing English language dubbing in Italy, Spain and Germany.

Death

She died on October 5, 1995 from brain cancer. Archival recordings of Gary’s voice work continues to be used today in many animated features.

Filmography

Voice acting

Animation
Year Title Role Notes
1971Lady FrankensteinTaniaVoice, Uncredited
1976–1980Tarzan, Lord of the JungleJaneVoice
1981WolfenESSVoice
1981BlackstarMara, Taleena, Amber, Storm, LeilannaVoice
1981Spider-ManColleenVoice
1983–1984The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo ShowAdditional voicesVoice
1983–1985He-Man and the Masters of the UniverseTeela, Evil-Lyn, Queen Marlena, Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, virtuous charactersVoice
1984Nausicaä of the Valley of the WindQueen Salena / Old Lady('Warriors of the Wind' dub), Voice, Uncredited
1985The Secret of the SwordTeela / Queen Marlena / Sorceress / Shadow Weaver / Glimmer / Madame RazzVoice
1985–1986She-Ra: Princess of PowerMadame RazzVoice
1985–1986The TransformersFairy-tale princess, Witch, Disco Girl #2Voice
1987Pinocchio and the Emperor of the NightBee AtriceVoice
1988Top Cat and the Beverly Hills CatsMrs. VandergeltVoice
1990Happily Ever AfterCritterina / MarinaVoice
1991SwitchGodVoice
1991–1993The Pirates of Dark WaterAdditional voicesVoice
1994Spider-ManAunt MayVoice
1994The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley AdventureGrandma LongneckVoice
1995The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
1996The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists

Video games
Year Title Role Notes
1984Thayer's QuestLady In The Woodlands
1992King's Quest VIOracle, Red Chess Queen, Mother Ghost, Queen Allaria
1993Gabriel Knight: Sins of the FathersGrandma Knight/Tetelo

Live-action
Year Title Role Notes
1971My Name Is Rocco PapaleoJenny
1977Joyride to NowhereBoutique Clerk
1980Cruising
1981Smokey Bites the DustWoman Sheriff
1996Father FrostStoryteller
gollark: Also, there's a trade thing.
gollark: Unless you freeze the hatchlings.
gollark: You can do this by getting eggs, which hatch into hatchlings, which then grow.
gollark: Get dragons.
gollark: 🤖🐟

References
  1. "Linda Gary Biography". The New York Times.
  2. "Linda Gary Filmography". The New York Times.
  3. Kahn, Ellie (1987-03-12). "Linda Gary Breaths Life Into Characters With Off-Camera Acting". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
  4. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-12-vw-9229-story.html
  5. "He Man - Trivia - He Man in Hollywood!", He Man Official on YouTube, 23 April 2015.
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