Dick Tufeld - Early Life and Career

Early Life and Career

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 (before the show moved to New York and NBC), 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.

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