Vic Perrin

• Name — Vic Perrin • Birth Name — Victor Herbert Perrin • Born — 26 April 1916 • Birthplace — Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, U.S. • Died — 4 July 1989 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Education — University of Wisconsin–Madison • Occupation — Television and voice actor • Years Active — 1943–1989 • Children — 1

Perrin was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, the elder of two sons of Kathryn (née Mittlesteadt) and Milton A. Perrin, who was a traveling salesman. In 1940, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the late 1930s, Vic moved to California.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Perrin was a regular performer on many commercial radio programs. In 1941, he became a staff announcer for NBC, staying there for several years before moving to ABC and becoming chief announcer at the Blue Network. His first credited role came in 1943, when he served as the announcer for "The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith", a radio episode of Free World Theatre, which was produced and directed by Arch Oboler. He narrated "A Star with Two Names", part of the segment "Behind the Scenes Hollywood Story" of the Hollywood Music Hall radio program. At the same time, he joined Charles Laughton's theatrical repertory group. Perrin was also a regular guest star on the radio version of Gunsmoke, and he wrote or co-wrote five scripts for that popular Western series between 1959 and 1961. Perrin was a series regular also on the anthology radio drama Family Theatre, played Ross Farnsworth on One Man's Family, and was featured as cavalry trooper Sergeant Gorse in Fort Laramie in 1956. He performed as several characters in Escape, Pete Kelly's Blues, Dragnet, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and Have Gun – Will Travel. In an uncredited role, he also impersonated Clyde Beatty on The Clyde Beatty Show.

One of Perrin's first television roles was in "The Golden Vulture", a 1953 episode of the Adventures of Superman. He went on to appear in 16 installments of Dragnet, as well as the pilot and multiple episodes of the 1967 revival of the series. He appeared in episodes of Gunsmoke, Maverick, The Big Valley, and Mission: Impossible. In 1959, he played Osborne in "The Mind Reader" of The Rifleman. He played characters in a variety of other series, including Peter Gunn, Black Saddle, Have Gun – Will Travel, Mackenzie's Raiders, The Untouchables, Going My Way, Perry Mason, Adam-12, The F.B.I., and Mannix. Perrin served as the Control Voice, the narrator of The Outer Limits, and provided voices for characters in episodes of Star Trek, as well as appearing in one episode. He also appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone. He also guest-starred in "The Guardians", a 1981 episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Perrin did extensive voice work in animation. He voiced multiple characters on the Hanna-Barbera animated television series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Those characters include the Ape Man, Carl the Stuntman, Pietro, the Puppet Master, Dr. Najib, the Snow Ghost, Mr. Leech, Yeti, and Fu Lan Chi. Perrin was the voice of The Phantom Racer, Junkyard Watchman, Ken Rogers, Anthos, and John Thomas on The Scooby-Doo Show. Perrin was also the voice of Mr. McDabble, Mr. Kronos, and the Minotaur on The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show. He also provided the voice of Dr. Zin, the main antagonist on Jonny Quest, along with voicing Roberts, Search Plane Pilot, Junior, Frogman Leader, Miguel, Kronick, Professor Ericson, and others on the series. Perrin voiced Creature King and Lurker on Space Ghost and Mekkor and the Captain of the Sky Pirates on The Herculoids. He voiced Number One, the Ruthless Ringmaster, and others on Birdman and the Galaxy Trio along with Red Ghost, Silver Surfer, Professor Gamma, and the Demon on Fantastic Four (1967 TV series). He was the voice of Hawkman on Filmation's The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure and Aquaman (TV series). Perrin voiced Sinestro, who is the nemesis of the Green Lantern, along with voicing Dr. Starns, Turkish Engineer, Brain Creature, Professor Reed, and Frankenstein's Monster on Challenge of the Superfriends. He voiced Namor and Caesar Cicero on Spider-Man (1981 TV series). He voiced Thor, Zerona's Soldier, and Black Knight on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. He provided additional voices on The New Fantastic Four, Spider-Woman, and The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series). His other voiceovers include Ming the Merciless on the 1982 television film Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All, produced by Filmation, Teetor in the 1984 animated musical film Gallavants produced by Marvel Productions, ans a reprisal voice role in 1986 as Dr. Zin on The New Adventures of Jonny Quest. Other Hanna-Barbera shows on which he provided additional voices are the live-action and animated fantasy television series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Castway Charlie, Centaur, Doorgah, High Priest, Rabbit, and Chief, Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! as Professor Neilsen Rockabuilt, Inch High, Private Eye; These Are the Days; Clue Club; Jabberjaw; Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels as Mummy, Brackish, and Professor Pryce; Jana of the Jungle; Super Friends (1980 TV series) as Sailor; The Smurfs; and The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible.

For many years, Perrin narrated dozens of science and educational short films for educational filmmaking pioneer Sy Wexler and continued to do voiceovers and to play character roles until a short time before his death. Perrin was active in off-camera work in television commercials, prompting one newspaper article to include the comment, "Vic Perrin is one actor who makes more money when he's not seen on camera than when he is." He was also the original voice narrator for Disney's Epcot Center attraction Spaceship Earth in Orlando, Florida. Vic Perrin also narrated two movies in the original Epcot Center Universe of Energy pavilion: "Kinetic Energy" and "Energy Creation Story".

He was first married to Evelyn Held on March 10, 1963. Held died in 1972, and they had no children. He married for a second time to Rita Singer in 1977 and had a son, George. He also had a stepson Steven, from Singer's previous marriage. Perrin and Singer divorced in January 1979 but remarried in September of the same year. Perrin died of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, on July 4, 1989, aged 73.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1953 — Adventures of Superman — Scurvy — Episode: "The Golden Vulture" • 1955 –1958 — Sergeant Preston of the Yukon — Narrator — 48 episodes, voice, uncredited • 1956 — Gunsmoke — Hank Springer — Episode "No Handcuffs" • 1957 — Gunsmoke — Wilbur Haskins — Episode "What The Whiskey Drummer Heard" • 1957 — Have Gun - Will Travel — Rheinhart — Episode "Winchester Quarantine" • 1958 — Wanted Dead or Alive — Willie Jo Weems — Episode "Fatal Memory" • 1960 — The Twilight Zone — Martian — Episode "People Are Alike All Over" • 1960 — Have Gun - Will Travel — Arnold — Episode "Show of Force" • 1960 — Have Gun - Will Travel — Storekeeper Frazier — Season 3, Episode 21 "The Night the Town Died" • 1960 — Have Gun - Will Travel — Sheriff Cooley — Episode "The Campaign of Billy Banjo" • 1961 — Have Gun - Will Travel — Drunk — Episode "Everyman" • 1961 — The Untouchables — Inky Beggs — Episode "The Underground Court" • 1963 — The Twilight Zone — Jim – Trooper — Episode "Ring-a-Ding Girl" • 1964 — Gunsmoke — Henry Huckaby — Episode "The Promoter" • 1963 –1965 — The Outer Limits — Control Voice — 49 episodes, voice, uncredited • 1964 –1965 — Jonny Quest — Dr. Zin — 4 episodes, voice • 1966 — Dragnet 1966 — Don Negler — television movie, broadcast 1969 • 1967 — Mannix — Tony - Syndicate Boss — Season 1 Episode 2 "Skid Marks on a Dry Run • 1967 — Star Trek — Metron — Episode "Arena"; voice, uncredited • 1967 — Star Trek — Nomad — Episode "The Changeling", voice • 1967 — Star Trek — Tharn — Episode "Mirror, Mirror" • 1971 — Adam-12 — Everett Jones – Victim • 1977 — Wonder Woman — Gorel — Episodes "Judgment from Outer Space: Parts 1 & 2" • 1979 — Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — Draconia PA Announcer — Episode "Awakening", voice, uncredited • 1981 — Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — First Guardian — Episode "The Guardians" • 1982 — Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All — Prince Vultan — Television film • 1986 –1987 — The New Adventures of Jonny Quest — Dr. Zin — 3 episodes, voice

The following is established of the heading itself.

On origins, the institutional record states the following. Born in 1916 at Menomonee Falls. It is also recorded that vic Perrin died in 1989 at Los Angeles.