Q: I am a retired physician whose paternal grandmother was an Atwell and her brother Roy was the voice of Doc in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I am trying to find out information about Roy, his wife Ethel Smith, and his daughter June Carol Atwell. Can you help?
Jerrold, Wheaton, California
A: We do not have any information on Roy Atwell other than what you can find on the Internet, and in J.B. Kaufman’s recent book on the making of Snow White. One website is www.royatwell.net. Atwell’s third wife, Ethel Smith, is not the same Ethel Smith (1910-1996) who played the organ in Disney’s Melody Time (“Blame It on the Samba”).
Dave Smith