Linda Gary was an American voice actress and voice-over artist, who had worked on multiple animated projects. The ABC Weekend Special was a Saturday morning TV series that aired from 1977 to 1997, and featured stories in both the live-action and animated realms. Her voice had been heard in Scruffy, The Puppy Saves the Circus, The Amazing Bunjee Venture, The Return of the Bunjee, The Velveteen Rabbit, and The Magic Flute. She also voiced Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time franchise.
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For Disney, during the 1980s, she did several guest voice-over appearances in Disney TV series, such as the Spinster in Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Muffy Vanderschmere in TaleSpin, Aphroducky in DuckTales, and various other roles in Darkwing Duck, The Little Mermaid, and Bonkers.
She also voiced a gazelle and hippo in the Lion King read-along cassette story The Brightest Star and Maleficent in Fantasmic!. Additionally, she narrated a few Disney read-along stories in 1977, including Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and It's a Small World.
Gary further narrated Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me and The Mixed-Up Chameleon in The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories by Eric Carle along with Brian Cummings, who narrated the titular story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, along with The Very Quiet Cricket and I See a Song. Additionally, she did the female voices in Disney's version of Spot, such as Sally (Spot's mother) and Helen (Spot's hippo friend) until her death, when she was replaced by Tress MacNeille.