Norma MacMillan
Acting
Biography
Norma MacMillan (September 15, 1921 – March 16, 2001) was a Canadian actress, best known for voicing numerous characters in animation and Claymation, including Casper the Friendly Ghost on The New Casper Cartoon Show, Gumby on The Gumby Show, Sweet Polly Purebred on Underdog, and Davey on Davey and Goliath.
Born: September 15, 1921
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Known For
The Sleeping Beauty
A comedic take on the Sleeping Beauty tale featuring KoKo the Clown.
Columbo
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
The Wizard of Oz
This whaked out anime short pulls out all the stops, making fun of every aspect of the story and filmmaking in general. Britain Dunham speaks like Arnold Schwarzenegger as "The Tinmanator" in this adaptation of the L. Frank Baum classic of the girl carried to a fantastic realm who must seek out the Wizard to get home.
The New Casper Cartoon Show
The New Casper Cartoon Show is a 1963 to 1969 animated television series that appeared on ABC's Saturday morning schedule. The show featured older 1959–62 Famous Studios cartoons, mostly Noveltoons and "Modern Madcaps" which were shown as "Harveytoons", and 26 new Casper the Friendly Ghost episodes that were created specifically for this show, though all of them originally ran in the first 1963–1964 season. Several Minisodes of the show are available to view for free on Crackle. All voices in the Casper episodes were performed by Norma MacMillan and Bradley Bolke.
Dangerous Intentions
A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
Mr. Belvedere
Mr. Belvedere takes a job as a housekeeper with an American family headed by George Owens.
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor is a science fiction animated series created by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Despite Moby's name coming first, he had only one short per half-hour episode, sandwiched between two with Mightor; the same structure was used the previous season for H-B's Frankenstein, Jr. and The Impossibles.
Big Business
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
Underdog
Underdog, also known as The Underdog Show, is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to March 4, 1967, starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show continued in syndication until 1973. Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!"
The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Join Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on a series of exciting adventures that lead to mischief and mayhem wherever they go. No matter how hard they try, Tom and Huck just can't seem to stay out of trouble - but they have a lot of fun trying! They also learn some important lessons along the way.
Filmography
as Grandma Sara
as Widow Douglas (voice)
as Mrs. Rumpert
as Eula Winter
as Narrator
as Nanny Lewis
as Woman in Elevator
as Miss Fry
as Mrs. Martinson
as David 'Davey' Hansen
as Alice (voice)
as Sweet Polly Purebred (Voice)
as Casper/Good Fairy
as Casper/Teddy Bear
as Casper/Casper's Twin
as Casper
as Casper
as Casper/Daisy/Townspeople
as Casper
as Casper/Nightmare
as Casper/Powerhouse
as Casper/The Fallen Star
as Casper/Mother Goose
as Casper
as Casper
as Casper
as Casper/King Cool's Subjects
as Casper
as Casper
as Casper
as Casper
as Casper
as Kokette
as Kokette (voice)
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