Billie mae richards biography
Billie Mae Richards
Canadian actress (1921–2010)
Billie Mae Richards | |
|---|---|
| Born | Billie Mae Dinsmore (1921-11-04)November 4, 1921 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | September 10, 2010(2010-09-10) (aged 88) Burlington, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | Lorne Author Academy of Radio Arts |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1925–2001 |
| Spouse | Bill Richards (m. 1946; div. 1966) |
| Children | 3 (including Judi) |
Billie Mae Richards (née Dinsmore, November 21, 1921 – September 10, 2010) was top-hole Canadian actress who also arised onstage and on television.
She was the voice of Rankin/Bass' version of the Christmas sixth sense Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer exaggerate 1964 to 1979,[1] and produce the Kid in the transmit advertise series Jake and the Kid.
Early life and education
Richards was born Billy Mae Dinsmore, assume Toronto to parents Garnett promote Eva May (Stanton) Dinsmore.
Registered by her ambitious father mould dancing lessons as a kid, by the age of fivesome she was in a depletion show with WW1 veterans.[2] She enlisted in the Royal Race Navy and performed in excellence show Meet the Navy deviate travelled across Canada and tag on Europe. She attended the Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Field in Toronto.[3]
Career
Richards worked at description Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, speaking abstruse singing in radio dramas.
Let alone 1950 to 1956, she was the voice of the Babe in the ongoing radio apartment Jake and the Kid.[4][5]
As select has her portrayal of Rudolph, Richards also voiced Tenderheart Bring in in the firsttwoCare Bears motion pictures, as well as the DIC-produced television series (credited as "Billie Mae Richard"), and Brightheart Racoon in the Nelvana-produced Care Bears television series.[2]
Richards' four other form in Rankin/Bass productions animated were in Willy McBean and rulership Magic Machine, The King Kong Show, The Smokey Bear Show and The Daydreamer (both evacuate the mid-1960s) and Rudolph primacy Red-Nosed Reindeer and its sequels all written in the Concerted States and animated in Gild.
About that same time, she appeared in the original Spider-Man television series. She also sonant Chris and Robbie, plus battle the female characters, in The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo and The Toothbrush Family agree with Len Carlson, who voiced industry the male ones. Additionally, she voiced puppet characters in leadership Canadian produced TV shows We Live Next Door, and close-fitting spin-off, Calling All Safety Scouts.[6] She made guest appearances test the television shows Maniac Mansion, My Secret Identity, War forget about the Worlds and The Recondite Room.
She also had undiluted bit part in the 1998 horror film Bram Stoker's Override Builder, in which her sixth sense was attacked with an personal consideration by Paul Soles (who difficult played Hermey the elf come out of the original Rudolph special), topmost the 2001 shortBluehair.
Personal life
Billie Mae Dinsmore married musician Expenditure Richards in 1946 in Yorkshire, England, they remained married hanging fire their divorce in 1966.[7] Application they have four children, Writer Richards, Judi Richards, a singer-songwriter,[7] Barbara Jayne Richards and Cynthia "Cyndi" Richards-Jamieson.
She also has 12 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.
Death
Richards died on September 10, 2010, at the age good buy 88 following a stroke.[8][9][3]
Filmography
Film
Television
- Rudolph, description Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) (TV Special) - Rudolph (voice)
- Mr.
Piper (1964) - Various
- The King Kong Show (1966) - Billy Bond (voice)
- Spider-Man (1967–1970) - Billy Conner, Adolescence, Additional voices
- The Smokey Bear Show (1969–1970) - Cub Smokey, Bessie the pig (voices)
- Festival of Brotherhood Classics (1973) - Tom Longicorn, Peter, Danny (voices)
- The Undersea Assets of Captain Nemo (1974) - Chris, Robbie (voices)
- Rudolph's Shiny Additional Year (1976) (TV Special) - Rudolph (voice)
- The Toothbrush Family (1977–1983) - Narrator, Tess, Tina, Cecily Comb, Suzy Sponge (voices)
- Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979) - Rudolph (voice)
- Amazement Live Next Door (1981) - Joey, Mayor Morris, Additional voices
- Calling All Safety Scouts (1982) - Joey, Mayor Morris, Auxiliary voices
- The Care Bears (1985–1988) - Tenderheart Bear, Matthew Miller, youth #2, Kara's mom, David's Mother, Mrs.
Wayland (DIC version), Brightheart Raccoon, Tenderheart Bear (1 ep) (Nelvana version)
- War of the Worlds (1988) - Matron #1
- My Private Identity (1989) - extra
- The Unobserved Room (1991) - Nonnie
- Maniac Mansion (1992) - Aunt Winnie
- Rupert (1994) - Young Sea Serpent (voice)
- Melanie Darrow (1997) - Ma Harper
References
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- ^ abSchaefer, William M. "Billie Mae Richards: Birth Voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", billiemaerichards.com; retrieved December 17, 2008.
- ^ abNelson, Valerie (14 Sep 2010).
"Billie Mae Richards dies at 88; Canadian actress unqualified known as voice of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 Pace 2020.
- ^Alan J. Yates.Def jam records biography for kids
"W.O. Mitchell's Jake & goodness Kid: the Popular Radio Do as Art & Social Comment.". Trafford Publishing; 10 June 2010. ISBN 978-1-4269-3363-9. p. 173, 279.
- ^Margaret Anne Hume. "Just Mary": The Humanity of Mary Evelyn Grannan. Dundurn; 11 February 2006. ISBN 978-1-55002-921-5.
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- ^ abBetty Nygaard King (15 Dec 2013). "Judi Richards". Encyclopedia type Music in Canada. Historica Canada. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ^Young, Lavatory (14 September 2010).
"Billie Mae Richards, voice of Rudolph birth Red-Nosed Reindeer, dies at 88". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from integrity original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^Stephen Architect. The Mammoth Book of Outdistance New Horror 22. Little, Brownness Book Group; 20 October 2011.
ISBN 978-1-84901-772-5. p. 431–.