12 Facts About Dick Tufeld

Richard Norton Tufeld was an American actor, announcer, narrator and voice actor from the late 1940s until the early 21st century.

Dick Tufeld worked constantly and continuously throughout this lengthy career and was one of the busiest announcers in television history.

Dick Tufeld was a well-known and well respected presence on television as an announcer on countless television shows, award shows, network promos, radio and movie promos but his most famous and beloved role was as the voice of the Robot in the television series Lost in Space and in the Lost in Space movies.

Dick Tufeld attended the Northwestern University School of Communication, then known as the university's School of Speech.

Dick Tufeld was the announcer on ABC's The Amazing Mr Malone in early 1950 ; then on Alan Reed's Falstaff's Fables, a five-minute ABC radio program that began in the fall of 1950.

Dick Tufeld moved to television in 1955, working in ABC daytime programming and anchoring The Three Star Final, a 15-minute newscast on KABC-TV, Los Angeles.

Dick Tufeld had periods as the house announcer on two ABC variety series, The Hollywood Palace and The Julie Andrews Hour.

Dick Tufeld is perhaps best known as the voice of the B9 Robot in the CBS television series Lost in Space, a role he reprised for the 1998 feature film.

Dick Tufeld provided narrations for many other Irwin Allen productions, such as ABC's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel, and did voice work for the 1978 animated television series Fantastic Four.

Dick Tufeld narrated several episodes of Thundarr the Barbarian.

Dick Tufeld was the main title narrator on the 1979 DePatie-Freleng series, Spider-Woman, as well as the main title announcer on the 1981 Marvel Productions show Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.

Dick Tufeld's son, Bruce Tufeld, was a talent agent; he died in 2019.