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| - Doris Grau (October 12, 1924 - December 30, 1995) was an American actress, script supervisor and voice actress who served as script supervisor on The Simpsons from 1991 through 1994. She also put her distinctive, raspy voice to use on her famous role as Lunchlady Doris, who was named after her. She also voiced Della in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", a waitress in "Like Father, Like Clown" and Lurleen Lumpkin in "Marge vs. the Monorail".
- Doris Grau (October 12, 1924 – December 30, 1995) was an American actress, script supervisor and voice artist. She worked on many films and television shows, including The Simpsons, where she provided the voice of Lunchlady Doris and other characters. She died from emphysema on December 30, 1995. The characters she voiced were retired out of respect (similar to the retirement of Phil Hartman's characters), with the exception of Lunchlady Doris, who returned to The Simpsons after a decade-long absence in 2006 (voiced by Tress MacNeille) in Season 18.
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| - Doris Grau (October 12, 1924 - December 30, 1995) was an American actress, script supervisor and voice actress who served as script supervisor on The Simpsons from 1991 through 1994. She also put her distinctive, raspy voice to use on her famous role as Lunchlady Doris, who was named after her. She also voiced Della in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", a waitress in "Like Father, Like Clown" and Lurleen Lumpkin in "Marge vs. the Monorail". Prior to The Simpsons, Grau had served as script supervisor and made occasional appearances The Tracey Ullman Show. She was heard regularly on The Critic as another character named Doris, the make-up lady. As an actress, Grau had a recurring role as waitress Corrinne on Cheers, appeared in the film The Distinguished Gentleman (1992) and dubbed the voice of Australian actress Mary Acres in Babe (1995). Unfortunately, she died on December 30th, 1995. Following Grau's death from emphysema, Lunchlady Doris was temporarily retired as a speaking character (although archival audio of Grau was used in "Lisa's Sax"), but returned to the series in "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (voiced by Tress MacNeille, who has been voicing Lunchlady Doris since that episode). The episode "Team Homer" was dedicated to her memory.
- Doris Grau (October 12, 1924 – December 30, 1995) was an American actress, script supervisor and voice artist. She worked on many films and television shows, including The Simpsons, where she provided the voice of Lunchlady Doris and other characters. Grau was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Los Angeles, California. She worked as a script supervisor on many films and TV shows including A Rage to Live, The Klansman, Sleeper and King Kong. In 1987 she was hired to work on The Tracey Ullman Show and then The Simpsons from 1989. She retired after three years to take up acting. On The Simpsons she voiced Springfield Elementary School cafeteria worker Lunchlady Doris in 24 episodes, as well as Doris in The Critic. She also had a recurring role as The Hungry Heifer waitress Corrinne on Cheers. She also had a few guest appearances on The Tracey Ullman Show and provided additional voices for the movie Babe (1995). Grau appeared on camera in The Distinguished Gentleman (1992). Doris Grau was also mentioned by Lucille Ball's Lucy Carmichael in the 1965 episode of The Lucy Show entitled "Lucy, The Choirmaster" as one of the recipients of Mr. Mooney's Christmas gifts. She died from emphysema on December 30, 1995. The characters she voiced were retired out of respect (similar to the retirement of Phil Hartman's characters), with the exception of Lunchlady Doris, who returned to The Simpsons after a decade-long absence in 2006 (voiced by Tress MacNeille) in Season 18.
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