Ginny Tyler

American voice actress (1925-2012)
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Merrie Virginia Eggers (née Erlandson; August 8, 1925 – July 13, 2012), known professionally as Ginny Tyler, was an American voice actress who performed on dozens of cartoons and animated films from 1957 to 1993. In 2006, she was named a Disney Legend.[1][2]

Early life

Tyler was born the elder of two children of Erland Alfred and Harriet (née Ruttenberg) Erlandson in 1925 in Berkeley, California, United States.[3] The family moved to Seattle, Washington, where her brother Donald was born. Later her parents were divorced and her mother remarried and Ginny's step-father adopted Ginny and she became Merrie Virginia Eggers.[4]

Career

Tyler grew up in Seattle and her family had a rich legacy of storytelling and imitation of animal sounds, which proved very useful to her later on in her career as an artist.[2] She first appeared before a radio microphone sometime in the 1930s and co-hosted, alongside Al Priddy the radio show Make Believe Island on KOL station. The show was moved to television, on KOMO-TV and renamed Magic Island by the early 1950s.

Tyler began to work more and more offscreen as a voice artist, appearing in several cartoons and narrating vinyl recordings of Disney films like Bambi and Babes in Toyland. She provided the voice of an amorous squirrel who falls in love with the young King Arthur (while he is in the form of a male squirrel) in The Sword in the Stone. She sang the voices of several barnyard animals in the "Jolly Holiday" sequence of Mary Poppins.[3]

From 1960 to 1962, she also performed several voices for the series Davey and Goliath, including Davey's mother and his sister Sally. She was replaced by Nancy Wible, who had a similar voice (from both of their works in other series), but would use a louder tone than Ginny. The two played roles of carhops on The Flintstones episode "The Drive Inn" (made around the same time as the first episodes of Davey & Goliath) in 1960. Since 1963, inside Disneyland, she can be heard voicing Pele and Tangaroa-Ru during the outside pre-show for Walt's Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room.[5] In 1964, Tyler appeared as the Genie in several performances of Aladdin and His Genie for the Pasadena Playhouse. In 1968, she was Flirtacia on Hanna-Barbera's The Adventures of Gulliver. She also played Jan on Space Ghost and Sue Richards, the Invisible Woman in the 1978 television series Fantastic Four.[6] Although Tyler later retired and moved back to Seattle, she still did some recording for local productions.

Death

She died on July 13, 2012, aged 86 at a Washington nursing home.[2]

Filmography

Film

  • The Christmas Visit (1959) - Kolya (voice)
  • West of the Pesos (1960) - Carmella (voice, uncredited)[7]
  • Mice Follies (1960) - Alice / Trixie (voice, uncredited)[7]
  • The Mouse on 57th Street (1960) - Customer (voice, uncredited)[7]
  • Daffy's Inn Trouble (1961) - Girl Singer on Record (voice, uncredited)[7]
  • Son of Flubber (1963) - Baby Walter (voice, uncredited)
  • The Sword in the Stone (1963) - Little Girl Squirrel (voice)
  • Mary Poppins (1964) - Lambs (voice, uncredited)
  • Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966, Short) - Bees (voice, uncredited)
  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) - Polynesia (voice, uncredited)
  • The Adventures of the Polar Cubs (1993, English dub of 1979 anime)

Audio recordings

  • Spike Jones' I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (as Olive Oyl)[8]
  • Bambi[1] (1960)
  • Babes in Toyland[1]
  • Lady and the Tramp (1962)
  • Hans Brinker[1]
  • More Mother Goose[1] (1962)
  • More Jungle Book (1968)
  • The Superscope Storyteller (1973/1975)
  • Trick or Treat (1974)

Television

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Ginny Tyler". D23.com. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  2. ^ a b c Nelson, Valerie J. (July 22, 2012). "Ginny Tyler dies at 86; voice actress was Disney legend". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Yardley, William (July 24, 2012). "Ginny Tyler, Mouseketeer, Dies at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  4. ^ "Ginny Tyler article with newspaper excerpts from National Enterprise Association and The Pasadena Star-News from 1960". Yowp.blogspot. July 2012.
  5. ^ Shaffer, Joshua C (July 17, 2017). Discovering the Magic Kingdom: An Unofficial Disneyland Vacation Guide - Second Edition. Synergy Book Publishing. p. 461. ISBN 978-0-9991664-0-6. Retrieved September 18, 2023.
  6. ^ "Ginny Tyler". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  7. ^ a b c d Scott, Keith (3 October 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media.
  8. ^ Hollis, Tim (2006). Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 57. ISBN 9781617034336.
  9. ^ "Davey and Pal Make TV Bow". Hartford Courant. February 18, 1961. p. 11.
  10. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 767–770. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  11. ^ "The Cattanooga Cats". Voice Chasers. Retrieved 30 September 2020.

External links

  • Ginny Tyler at IMDb
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