{"id":427108,"date":"2024-12-02T09:21:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T09:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=427108"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Morgan-Lofting-G-I-Joe-Spider-Man-Voice-Actor-Dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Morgan-Lofting-G-I-Joe-Spider-Man-Voice-Actor-Dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Lofting, \u2018G.I. Joe\u2019 &#038; \u2018Spider-Man\u2019 Voice Actor, Dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Lofting, best known for voicing the villainous Baroness in animated <em>G.I. Joe<\/em> movies and TV shows, has died at age 84.<\/p>\n<p>Lofting\u2019s agents said she died unexpectedly on Wednesday, November 27, at her home in Burbank, California, per <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/morgan-lofting-dead-baroness-gi-joe-1236074053\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>. \u201cAs one of the 10 founding actors at our agency, she meant the world to us and our company,\u201d the agents, CelebWorx\u2019s Nery Lemus and Christopher Arsaga, added.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 2, 1940, Lofting marked her first voice acting role playing Princess Invidia on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/star-blazers\/\">Star Blazers<\/a><\/em>, a syndicated American adaptation of a Japanese anime series, from 1979 to 1984. And from 1981 to 1982, she voiced Aunt May and Black Cat in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/spider-man-1981\/\">a syndicated, animated <em>Spider-Man<\/em> series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lofting made her debut as The Baroness, Cobra\u2019s cunning intelligence officer, in the 1983 miniseries <em>G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero \u2013 The M.A.S.S. Device<\/em> , coming up with a European accent for the part.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Baroness Season 1+ G.I. Joe Appearances Compilation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XRZ5Dvmq3Zs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re handed generally a sketch \u2014 like a black-and-white sketch of what [the character is] gonna look like, which is extremely helpful \u2014 and there was probably a character background, and they must have said something about an accent,\u201d Lofting told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bTGL6L8AyGc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Continuity<\/a><\/em> in 2016. \u201cBut you read this, and you start to get ideas, and then you go somewhere out in the field somewhere, and you work on your voice because you don\u2019t want other actors to hear what you\u2019re intending to do. And somehow I came up with this mid-European sound. I have no idea where this came from. There is no country where anybody speaks like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In that interview, Lofting said her \u201cCobra!\u201d shout may have clinched her casting. \u201cI just let loose with the \u2018Cobra!\u2019\u201d she said. \u201c[Fellow <em>G.I. Joe<\/em> voice actor] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/michael-bell\/\">Mike Bell<\/a> used to say that there was blood on the control room window when I finished the \u2018Cobra!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet Morgan Lofting, the Voice of Baroness from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero | Creative Continuity\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bTGL6L8AyGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lofting reprised the part in the 1984 miniseries <em>G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra<\/em>, the 1985 series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/g-i-joe\/\">G.I. Joe<\/a><\/em>, 1986\u2019s TV movie <em>G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise!<\/em>, 1987\u2019s direct-to-video <em>G.I. Joe: The Movie<\/em>, the 1989 miniseries <em>G.I. Joe: Operation Dragonfire<\/em>, and another <em>G.I. Joe<\/em> series from 1990 to 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lofting took live-action parts in an episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/hotel\/\">Hotel<\/a><\/em> and a four-episode arc on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/knots-landing\/\">Knots Landing<\/a><\/em>, playing Mrs. Whitehead on the latter.<\/p>\n<p>After resuming to college in 1989 to finish her bachelor\u2019s degree and then getting a master\u2019s degree in history from Cal State History, Lofting became a librarian and started \u201cbartending with books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lofting is survived by her brother, Tim, his wife, Lynn, and their son, Brian; her son, Justin, and his wife, Stacie; and her grandchildren, Zac and Ellie, <em>THR<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1164542\/morgan-lofting-dead-voice-actor-g-i-joe-spider-man\/\">Morgan Lofting, \u2018G.I. 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