Richard Norton "Dick" Tufeld was an American actor, announcer, narrator, and voice actor from the late 1940s onward. Born in Los Angeles to Russian father and Canadian mother, he spent his childhood in Pasadena, CA. Tufeld attended Northwestern University's school of speech, and gained a job as an engineer in 1945 at KLAC, a radio station in Los Angeles. Tufeld's voice career began in radio. He was the announcer on The Amazing Mr. Malone on the American Broadcasting Company in early 1950 , then on Alan Reed's Falstaff's Fables, an ABC five-minute program, starting in the fall radio season of... 1950. From October 25, 1952 to March 19, 1955, he was the announcer for the entire run of ABC Radio's Space Patrol. He 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, which debuted on October 3, 1955 at noon , then moved to 11 p.m. on April 2, 1956.
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