Education
Tufeld attended the Northwestern University School of Communication, then known as the university"s School of Speech.
Tufeld attended the Northwestern University School of Communication, then known as the university"s School of Speech.
Born in Los Angeles, California, to a Russian father and a Canadian mother, he spent his childhood in Pasadena, California. In 1945, he obtained a job as an engineer at KLAC, a radio station in Los Los Angeles Tufeld"s voice career began in radio.
He was the announcer on American Broadcasting Company"s The Amazing Mr.
Malone in early 1950 (before the show moved to New York and National Broadcasting Company). Then on Alan Reed"s Falstaff"s Fables, a five-minute American Broadcasting Company radio program that began in the fall of 1950.
From October 25, 1952 to March 19, 1955, Tufeld was the announcer for the entire run of American Broadcasting Company Radio"s Space Patrol. Tufeld moved to television in 1955, working in American Broadcasting Company daytime programming and anchoring The Three Star Final, a 15-minute newscast on KABC-television, Los Los Angeles
lieutenant debuted on October 3, 1955 at noon (replacing Wrangler Jim), then moved to 11 p.m. on April 2, 1956.
Tufeld was often heard as the announcer on Disney television shows, including the 1957–1959 series Zorro starring future Lost in Space lead Guy Williams. He had periods as the house announcer on two American Broadcasting Company variety series, The Hollywood Palace and The Julie Andrews Hour. In 1954, he was cast in assorted roles in fifteen episodes of Gene Autry Productions"s syndicated television series, Annie Oakley, which starred Gail Davis and Brad Johnson.
Tufeld is perhaps best known as the voice of the Robot in the Columbia Broadcasting System television series Lost in Space, a role he reprised for the 1998 feature film.
He also provided narrations for many other Irwin Allen productions, such as American Broadcasting Company"s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel, and did voice work for the 1978 animated television series Fantastic Four. He narrated several episodes of Thundarr the Barbarian (1980).
He 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-Manitoba and His Amazing Friends. He commissioned a home by architect Gregory Ain in 1952.
He died in 2012 of congestive heart failure.