Janet Waldo – the voice actress behind numerous characters from classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as The Jetsons, The Flintstones and Wacky Races – died on Sunday (12 June) aged 96, her daughter has confirmed. 
 
 Waldo provided voices for some of the most famous cartoons in TV history, but was perhaps best known for her vocal portrayals of Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop and Josie from Josie and the Pussycats. She was also the voice of Nancy in Shazzan. 
 
 Her daughter, Lucy Lee, told ABC News Waldo was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour five years ago. 
 
 Waldo started her prolific career as a screen actress with an untitled role in 1938's Cocoanut Grove. From there she made a successful radio career for herself before progressing into voice acting on TV. 
 
 It was in The Jetsons, which ran from 1962 to 1987, that she became a household name, portraying the daughter of the eponymous intergalactic family. She also provided the speaking for Pearl Slaghoople (Wilma's mother) in The Flintstones and Beth Crane, one of the gang's friends, in The Scooby-Doo Show. 
 
 She was controversially replaced for 1990's Jetsons: The Movie by mall-pop singer Tiffany, a move that led to casting director Andrea Romano receiving hate mail. ||||| Heather North, an actress best known as the voice of Daphne on the original classic animated series, Scooby Doo, Where Are You! has died. She was 71. Family friend Jodie Mann told Deadline that North died November 30 at her Studio City home after a long illness. 
 
 North began lending her voice to the character of Daphne Blake, one of two female sleuths of Mystery Incorporated in the Scooby-Doo series, in 1970. She continued to voice the character in various TV specials with the Scooby-Doo gang. 
 
 In addition, North starred in Disney’s 1971 pic The Barefoot Executive opposite Kurt Russell. She played his love interest in a movie that followed an ambitious mailroom clerk and a chimpanzee who can predict which TV shows will be a success on the air. 
 
 She also appeared on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives for several years. It is on the set of the soap where she met her husband, H. Wesley Kenney. He was an the Emmy-winning producer and director of soap operas who also helmed the 1974-75 season of the progressive series All in the Family. He died in January 2015. 
 
 North’s other credits include the feature Git! as well as episodes of such classic TV series as Green Acres, The Monkees, The Fugitive, Gidget, Adam-12 and My Three Sons. She also appeared briefly on Broadway with Marjorie Lord and Alan Young in the 1967 play The Girl in the Freudian Slip. 
 
 She is survived by her son, Kevin; daughter-in-law, Stephanie; a stepdaughter, Nina; a stepson, Wes Kenney; their spouses; six step-grandchildren; and nine step-great-grandchildren.
– You won't hear Elroy's big sister laughing in the halls of Orbit High anymore. Janet Waldo, who voiced futuristic teenager Judy Jetson on the cartoon series The Jetsons, has died at the age of 96, ABC News reports. Waldo's daughter confirmed she passed away Sunday morning and that she'd had a benign but inoperable brain tumor that was diagnosed five years ago. Waldo—a Washington state native who started out as a screen actress in the late 1930s, notes the International Business Times—wasn't only the voice behind Judy, but also a slew of other Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, including Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races and the title character in Josie and the Pussycats, per Behind the Voice Actors. (The voice behind the Lucky Charms leprechaun died in April.)