Joan Gardner

Joan Gardner

Born: November 16, 1926
Died: December 10, 1992
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Joan Gardner (November 16, 1926 – December 10, 1992) was an American actress who was most active in voice over roles. She was also a screenwriter, songwriter, author and composer.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 16, 1926 to Jack "Jumbo" Gardner, a prominent jazz musician and Adelaide (Cline) Gardner.

She started her career on the stage. In 1948-1949, she wrote scripts for the television programs Pantomime Quiz and Time For Beany.

Apart from writing scripts and books, Gardner also worked as a music composer for films. However, she was most active as an actress for radio and television animated series.

She voiced Spunky in The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole, Tanta Kringle and various other female roles on the Christmas special Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, Bonnie Bonnet and Madame Esmerelda on the TV special Here Comes Peter Cottontail, played Josephine Bonaparte opposite Groucho Marx's Napoleon in the animated special The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians and Zazu the Fairy Godmother on Pound Puppies.

She married producer Edward Janis on December 8, 1960, and wrote under the name Joan Janis.

Joan Gardner died on December 10, 1992 from cancer.

Movies for Joan Gardner...

Title: Snorks
Character: Mrs. Wetworth
Released: September 15, 1984
Type: TV
The Snorks is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera which ran on NBC from September 15, 1984, to May 13, 1989. Although not as popular as the animated series The Smurfs, the program continued to be available in syndication from 1986 to 1989 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera's 3rd season, on USA Network in the late-1980s and early-1990s, on the BBC in the late 1990s, and from 2009–2011 and again from 2012–Present on Boomerang.
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The First Easter Rabbit
Title: The First Easter Rabbit
Character: Elizabeth / Calliope (voice)
Released: April 9, 1976
Type: Movie
A beloved toy stuffed rabbit is rescued by a fairy to be the first Easter Rabbit.
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The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
Title: The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
Character: Sister Jean (voice)
Released: December 19, 1975
Type: Movie
A young shepherd, Lucas, is blinded by lightening, and some kindly nuns at a nearby abbey take him in. Sister Catherine describes snow to Lucas, who has never seen it. Lucas gets chosen to play an angel in the abbey's Christmas pageant, and the Christmas snow that falls during the pageant works a small miracle.
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Title: Valley of the Dinosaurs
Released: September 7, 1974
Type: TV
Valley of the Dinosaurs is an animated television series from the Australian studios of Hanna-Barbera that ran for 16 half-hour installments on CBS Saturday Morning from September 7, 1974 to September 4, 1976. Reruns are currently airing on the Boomerang network.
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail
Title: Here Comes Peter Cottontail
Character: Mom / Madame Esmeralda / Bonnie Bonnet / Hat shop owner (voice)
Released: April 4, 1971
Type: Movie
Peter Cottontail wants to be the #1 chief Easter Bunny, and everyone in April Valley agrees...except for Evil Irontail. Peter must deliver more eggs than this archrival to earn the top spot...and save Easter for children everywhere!
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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Title: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Character: Tanta Kringle (voice)
Released: December 14, 1970
Type: Movie
A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle. When Kris grows up, he wants to deliver toys to the children of Sombertown. But its Mayor is too mean to let that happen. And to make things worse, the Winter Warlock lives between the Kringles and Sombertown.
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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
Title: Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
Character: Tiny Tim / Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
Released: December 18, 1962
Type: Movie
In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage production of the classic - doesn't have a ghost of a chance unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three spirits who haunt him one Christmas Eve.
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Title: The Jetsons
Character: (voice)
Released: September 23, 1962
Type: TV
Meet George Jetson and his quirky family: wife Jane, son Elroy and daughter Judy. Living in the automated, push-button world of the future hasn't made life any easier for the harried husband and father, who gets into one comical misadventure after another!
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Title: The Jetsons
Character: Helen (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1962
Type: TV
Meet George Jetson and his quirky family: wife Jane, son Elroy and daughter Judy. Living in the automated, push-button world of the future hasn't made life any easier for the harried husband and father, who gets into one comical misadventure after another!