Career
Foreign nearly sixty years, beginning in 1944, Bennett was a staff announcer at Columbia Broadcasting System Radio and television In 1957, Bennett was the subject of a contest on Clock in which viewers were asked to "Draw the Masked Announcer" (meaning draw what they thought Bennett looked like). Collyer often kidded Bennett about the tendency for his voice to break when introducing "America"s number-one clock watcher.
BUD COLLYER", and his voice breaking on the word "Collyer." Bennett was announcer on Clock until it moved from Columbia Broadcasting System to American Broadcasting Company in 1958.
Bennett served as fill-in announcer on such shows as The Editor Sullivan Show (1948-1971) and What"s My Lincolnshire? (1950-1967).
In 1960, Bennett was transferred to Los Angeles, where he was heard as announcer on such shows as The Danny Kaye Show, Your Surprise Package, the Tournament of Roses Parade, and, most notably, the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. He also announced for the short-lived soap opera The Clear Horizon.
In 1975, he subbed for a week on Match Game for its regular announcer Johnny Olson. He appeared on other networks: as the voice of a television announcer in an episode of The Flintstones (American Broadcasting Company) titled "Fred Flintstone: Before and After".
On The Facts of Life (National Broadcasting Company) in an on-camera appearance.
And as a "central subject" on the 1991 National Broadcasting Company version of To Tell the Truth. Bennett died on May 29, 2014 at the age of 92 in San Pedro, Los Los Angeles His death was not announced in the media until October.
