Lucille Bliss, who voiced the groundbreaking TV characters CRUSADER RABBIT and SMURFETTE has died at 96.
Lucille Bliss, who voiced the groundbreaking TV characters CRUSADER RABBIT and SMURFETTE has died at 96.
She passed November 8th, The New York Times reported.
“Crusader Rabbit” was the first cartoon series produced specifically for television created by Jay Ward of "Rocky and Bullwinkle" fame which was soon followed by Hanna- Barbera’s “Ruff and Reddy” and “Huckleberry Hound”.
Bliss’s voicing off Crusader— the adventure seeking rabbit alongside his dumb buddy, Rags the Tiger — “made her one of the very first television stars,” TV journo Mark Evanier, told the NYT.
Bliss played Crusader in the very first season which first aired September 1949, but not in later seasons.