1. Alan Robert Kalter was an American television announcer from New York City.
14 Facts About Alan Kalter
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Alan Kalter hosted Alan Kalter's Celebrity Interview that ran concurrently with The Late Show.
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Alan Kalter announced the guests at the top of each show and the one-liner during the Worldwide Pants title card after the credits and regularly acted in comedic sketches.
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Alan Kalter did hundreds of voiceovers for national radio and television commercials and was the lead continuity voice for the USA Network throughout much of the 1980s and most of the 1990s.
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Alan Kalter voiced promos for SportsChannel America in the early 1990s.
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Alan Kalter would replace Bill Wendell as announcer on both Truth and the Late Show.
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Alan Kalter was the announcer for the 45th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, held in New York in 2003.
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Alan Kalter was often compelled to arbitrarily sing, rant in hysteria, or disrobe as he walked offstage.
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In many of the sketches, Alan Kalter's antics left host Letterman in a state of shock, amusement, disgust, or total confusion.
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Alan Kalter was born in Brooklyn in 1943 and raised in Little Neck and Cedarhurst, New York.
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Alan Kalter was an English and Public Speaking teacher at Baldwin High School on Long Island in the late 1960s and was the voice of the Michelin Man.
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Alan Kalter attended Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and began his broadcasting career on local radio stations.
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Alan Kalter married Carol Cepler and they had two children, Lauren Hass and Diana Binger.
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Alan Kalter died at Stamford Hospital on October 4,2021, aged 78.