Shaaron Claridge (born Shaaron Lee Cooper; later Snead; October 1, 1938[1] – September 15, 2021) was an American second-shift radiotelephone operator or police radio dispatcher at the Van Nuys Division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) best known for her voice work on the Adam-12 television series.
was featured in all but three episodes of Adam-12 ("Elegy for a Pig", "Hollywood Division" and "Clinic on Eighteenth Street").
She was seen onscreen once in her role as a dispatcher in the fifth-season episode "Suspended" in which she has a brief conversation with Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner).
In the 1983 suspense/action movie Blue Thunder, starring Roy Scheider, Claridge's voice was again heard as an LAPD dispatcher in an uncredited role.
[2][3][4] She died at age 82 of complications from liver cancer at Minden, Nevada, on September 15, 2021.