Bernice Hansen | |
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| Born | Berneice Edna Hansell July 11, 1897 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | April 16, 1981 (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Voice actress |
| Years active | 1934–1942 |
Berneice Edna Hansell (July 11, 1897 – April 16, 1981), known as Bernice Hansen, was an American voice actress. She was best known for providing the voices for both female and young male characters in the mid to late 1930s for various cartoon studios, most notably Warner Bros. Cartoons, where she played Little Kitty in I Haven't Got a Hat (1935).
Because of a lack of on-screen voice credits on cartoons throughout the 1930s, identifying many actors has been a challenge to historians, resulting in incorrect guesses, especially with many female voices portraying young animals that sound very similar. She has, for example, been incorrectly identified as providing the voice of Sniffles.[1]