Still More About Dick Tufeld

Obituary for Dick Tufeld. I still think people pay too much attention to his role voicing the robot on Lost in Space. That's fine but I'm more impressed by the thousands and thousands of TV and radio announcing jobs this man had.

Here's a link to another one. This is from the 1978 CBS Anniversary Special. They did a gathering of every CBS star they could round up and that's Dick Tufeld you hear introducing them as they enter. This was from a period when Dick was pretty much The Voice of CBS, doing about 80% of all their promos. Around the same time, he was also The Voice of Disney, doing most of the trailers for Disney movies until the job passed to Marc Elliot.

(For extra points: See if you can figure out how many stars in the CBS clip weren't actually there when they did the big walk-on and were taped at another time and edited in. I'll start you off with Bill Cosby and The Smothers Brothers. There are several others.)