The comedy actor, who started out as a regular on variety shows and became a prolific voice actor, died at home on Saturday of pneumonia
Pat Carroll, the Emmy award winning actor and voice of the memorable Disney villain Ursula in The Little Mermaid, has died aged 95.
Carroll died on Saturday of pneumonia at her home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, her daughter Kerry KarsianBorn in Louisiana in 1927, Carroll’s family moved to Los Angeles when she was five, and she began acting soon after. Her big screen debut arrived in 1947, in the film Hometown Girl, but it was her presence on variety shows that made her name over the next three decades.
She got her first voiceover work in 1966, for the animated television series The Super 6. By the 1980s she was ever present in cartoons, voicing roles in shows including Yogi’s Treasure Hunt, Scooby-Doo, Garfield and Superman, as well as the English dub of 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro. But it was her lifelong dream to work in a Disney film, and the opportunity came in 1989 with The Little Mermaid.
“It was a lifelong ambition of mine to do a Disney film,” she told author Allan Neuwirth in Makin’ Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows and Movies. “So, I was theirs hook, line and sinker.”
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