Biography

Actress, Grace Stafford was born in New York City, New York, as Grace Boyle. She was both an actress & an off-screen voice, (especially as "Woody Woodpecker"), the most popular character created by her second husband, Walter Lantz. She acted in three theatrical films: Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), Chili Con Corny (1972) & Bye, Bye, Blackboard (1972). Stafford was married twice, first to Tom Keene for 20 or 21+ years, (1919 - 1940), then to Lanz later in 1940, for 51+ years, (1940 - 1992). She died Tuesday, March 17th, 1992.
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The voice of Woody Woodpecker from 1950 until the end of the 1980s. She asked her husband Walter Lantz not to give her screen credit during her first two years of voicing the character, as she felt children would be "disillusioned" if they knew Woody was voiced by a woman.