Janet Waldo

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Janet Waldo in the "Rearview Mirror" feature of the Wacky Races DVD set.

Janet Waldo (born February 4, 1924, Yakima, Washington) is a well-known actress and voice artist with a career spanning animation, live-action films, radio and television.

On radio, Waldo lent her voice to many programs, including One Man's Family, yet she left a lasting impression as teenager Corliss Archer in Meet Corliss Archer even though Shirley Temple starred in the film adaptations, Kiss and Tell and A Kiss for Corliss.

In animation, she was most notable for providing the voice of teenager Judy Jetson in all versions of the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon The Jetsons, except the movie version where the role was played by Tiffany. Waldo is the last surviving main cast member of The Jetsons series because her co-stars from that series have all passed away: George O'Hanlon, Penny Singleton, Daws Butler, Mel Blanc, Don Messick, and Jean Vanderpyl

She also provided voices for Nancy in "Shazzan", Josie in Josie and the Pussycats, Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races and its spinoff series, she and Gary Owens are the surviving cast members of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop series because their co-stars from that series have passed away: Mel Blanc, Paul Winchell, Don Messick and Paul Lynde. A teenage babysitter named Jeannie from Tom and Jerry in the two episodes, Busy Buddies and Tot Watchers, the witch, Sersi in Thundarr the Barbarian in the episode Island of the Body Snatchers and many other animated female characters. She did the voices of Morticia Addams in the short-lived 1973 cartoon series adaptation of The Addams Family.

Waldo played ingenue roles in a handful of 1940s films, often in small, unbilled roles although she was the leading lady in three Westerns, two of them starring Tim Holt. Waldo made a rare television acting appearance when she appeared on an episode of I Love Lucy with Richard Crenna, as Peggy, a young girl smitten with Ricky Ricardo. She made an appearance on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show as Amanda. She later was the female lead opposite Anthony Franciosa in the short-lived sitcom "Valentine's Day" in 1964.