Lucille Bliss

Life and career

Family Bliss was born to James Francis Bliss, a dentist from Massachusetts, and Frieda Siemens (1886-1969). Her mother, a German emigrant, was a classically trained pianist and wanted her daughter to train as an opera singer. Her parents later divorced. Her father's death in 1935 (or 1928

Radio Bliss was active in old-time radio, having roles in Pat Novak, for Hire (1946 to 1947), Candy Matson (June 29, 1949, to May 20, 1951), and The Charlie McCarthy Show.

Film Bliss' first voice work was the role of the wicked stepsister Anastasia Tremaine in Walt Disney's 1950 feature film Cinderella, for which she was honored 50 years later by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award in March 2000.

Television In the early years of television, Bliss acted in Harbor Command and The Lineup. At the same time, she did voices for Hanna-Barbera while they were working for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio – as Tuffy in Robin Hoodwinked, as Leprechaun in Droopy Leprechaun and later was Hugo on an episode of The Flintstones. She was also the narrator on three stories from the Disney album "Peter Cottontail and Other Funny Bunnies": "Story of Thumper", :Story of the White Rabbit", and "Story of Grandpa Bunny". Bliss was also a voice-over performer for Airborne radio spots in 2004.

"She lost her job as Elroy Jetson, she told interviewers, when she wouldn't work under a stage name that would hide the fact that she was a grown woman playing a little boy, which is a common scenario in cartoons."

Volunteer efforts Bliss produced and directed talent shows for the Marin YMCA in San Rafael and Embarcadero Armed Services YMCA in San Francisco, which included service personnel with professional career hopes. She never married and left no survivors. Cap'n O. G. Readmore (1985–92) – Lickety Page Rainbow Brite: San Diego Zoo Adventure (1986) – Narrator Assassination (1987) – Crone The Night Before (1988) – Gal Baby Miracle Mile (1988) – Old Woman in Diner Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery (1989) – Miss Green Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) – Impedimenta (aka Bonnemine) Tales of the City (1993) – Cable Car Lady Thumbelina Narrated by Mayim Bialik (1994) – Miscellaneous (video game) Space Quest VI: The Spinal Frontier (1995) – Sharpei/Waitron (video game) Wacked (1997) – Jane Katz Invader Zim (2001–02; 2006) – Ms. Bitters Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (2002) – Rozatta (video game) Battlestar Galactica (2003) – Shaden (video game) Blue Harvest Days (2005) – Bear Brat Robots (2005) – Pigeon Lady Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) – Yugoda Up-In-Down Town (2007) – Quinby

Recognition In 2000, she won ASIFA-Hollywood's Winsor McCay Award.