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Heather North, Voice Of Daphne From ‘Scooby-Doo,’ Dies At 71

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Heather North, the longtime voice of the danger-prone Daphne Blake on TV’s Scooby-Doo, has died. She was 71.

North died Nov. 30 at her home in Studio City after a long illness, family friend Jodie Mann told The Hollywood Reporter.

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Her husband, H. Wesley Kenney, the Emmy Award-winning producer and director of soap operas who helmed every episode of the tumultuous 1974-75 season of All in the Family, died in January 2015.

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North and Kenney had met on the set of Days of Our Lives and were married in 1971. She had played Sandy Horton for a few years on the NBC daytime serial.

A native of Pasadena, North also starred as Kurt Russell’s love interest in Disney’s The Barefoot Executive (1971), about a chimpanzee who can predict which TV shows will be a success on the air.

 

North was first heard as Daphne in September 1970 on the second-season opener of the CBS/Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning hit Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. (Stefanianna Christopherson had voiced Daphne during the first season.)

North then returned to The New Scooby-Doo Movies in 1972-73 and in many other incarnations of the cartoon through 2003.

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North also appeared on such TV shows as Mr. NovakGidgetThe FugitiveThe MonkeesMy Three Sons, and Adam-12; on the big screen in Git! (1965) and I Love My Wife (1970), and on Broadway in the short-lived 1967 comedy The Girl in the Freudian Slip.

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Survivors include her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Stephanie; stepdaughter Nina and her husband Brent; stepson Wes and his wife Leslie; and granddaughter Jocelyn. Another stepdaughter, Kara, died just a week ago.

A memorial service is set for 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday at First Christian Church in Studio City.


(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

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