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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Lost in Space robot (well, his voice, anyway) is dead.
Is Grovelbot in mourning?
He passed away peacefully in a hospital in Los Angeles, according to reports.
'Everything just caught up to him,' his Space co-star Bill Mumy said. 'He lost his wife a few years ago and lost his pep after that.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2091375/He-really-cool-guy-Actor-voiced-Lost-Space-robot-Dick-Tufeld-dies-aged-85.html#ixzz1kSYryKbE
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"I am a machine. I will live forever, unless this crew gets me destroyed."
calimary
(81,238 posts)Dang. "Danger Will Robinson" indeed.
BumRushDaShow
(128,906 posts)So sorry to hear this. Didn't realize that he was still around and I guess I never really focused on the actor who did the voiceover of Robot - just accepted that the character was one of an ensemble. Haven't watched the show in decades but still remember it fondly.
R.I.P. sir. You propelled that character into the American popular culture.
no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)What strings of alliteration . . . . .
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)He did a ton of voice work over the decades outside of his Robot role. I particularly remember him as the "voice of Disney" in the '60s and '70s. He had a way of making movies like The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and the Million Dollar Duck seem a lot more fun and exciting in the commercials than they actually turned out to be.
When the Lost in Space big-screen movie came out in 1998, I was so happy when Gary Oldman's Dr. Smith character switched the Robot on and out came that familiar authoritative baritone (this time in glorious THX!). "Destroy Robinson family! Destroy Jupiter 2!" I probably would have walked out if it had been someone else's voice.
I have his "Danger, Will Robinson!" on my cell phone as a reminder for meetings I don't particularly want to go to. So yeah, I guess you could say I'm a fan. Goodbye, Mr. Tufeld. Thanks for all the memories.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)RIP Robot.