Graham George Skidmore was a British voice artist and game show announcer, best known for providing the voice-over for the television dating gameshow Blind Date on ITV from 1985 until 2002, in which host Cilla Black referred to him as "Our Graham".
13 Facts About Graham Skidmore
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Graham Skidmore was known for the BBC comedy panel game Shooting Stars.
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Graham Skidmore grew up in London and carried out his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
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In 1959, after taking singing lessons, Graham Skidmore successfully auditioned for the musical Marigold at the Savoy Theatre in London.
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Graham Skidmore could be seen in a background role in the 1960 film The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, and played a minor role in the 1961 film The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
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Graham Skidmore was best known for being the voiceover on London Weekend Television's dating gameshow Blind Date from 1985 to 2002.
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In 2002, after viewing figures declined, Graham Skidmore was sacked by letter from the show, being replaced by Tommy Sandhu.
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Graham Skidmore had a similar role as a voiceover artist on the BBC comedy panel game Shooting Stars with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, from 1993 to 2002, in which he introduced the show's contestants.
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Graham Skidmore was a background character in the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut, and appeared in person on The Justin Lee Collins Show in 2009.
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Graham Skidmore found work as a photographic model, and appeared on advertising posters and in television commercials, both in person and as a voiceover.
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Graham Skidmore attended the funeral of Blind Date host Cilla Black in 2015.
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Graham Skidmore suffered from vascular malignancy and vascular dementia, which affected his speech, during the last decade of his life, and spent his final years living in Kent.
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Graham Skidmore died on 27 December 2021, aged 90, in Margate, Kent, but his death was not made widely known until it was reported by the entertainment union Equity in June 2022.