Veteran character actor and voiceover artist Lucille Bliss has passed away at the age of 96. She died on Thursday, November 8th.
A native of New York, Bliss lived in both San Francisco and Los
Angeles throughout her career. Her first professional voiceover job was
playing wicked stepsister Anastasia in Walt Disney’s classic 1950
feature film, Cinderella.
She went on to play Auntie Lou on ABC/KRON-TV’s Birthday Party Show
and have a long career in
commercials and animated cartoons. Bliss was
the original voice of Crusader Rabbit, the voice of the Kanine Krunchies
jingle in 101 Dalmations, Miss Bitters in Invader Zim, and literally played hundreds of other roles.
She will likely be best remembered for playing spunky Smurfette on The Smurfs, a hugely successful animated series that ran on Saturday mornings on NBC for nine seasons.
Here’s a clip of an extended interview with Bliss in which she discusses her work on Smurfette.
