Don Wilson

Don Wilson was an American radio and television announcer and actor who became known as the rotund comic foil and announcer on The Jack Benny Program. Born in Lincoln, he played football at the University of Colorado before beginning a radio career as a singer on Denver station KFEL in 1923. He worked as a sportscaster, covering the 1932 Summer Olympics and college football for NBC Radio, and in the 1930s he took stage roles in The Passionate Pilgrim and The First Legion. Wilson first worked with Benny in 1934, reading openings and commercials and serving as feed and foil, and he moved with Benny to television in 1950, remaining until the series ended in 1965. His film work included a credited part as Mr. Kettering, playing opposite Marilyn Monroe in Niagara (1953), and he provided narration for the Disney short Ferdinand the Bull, an Academy Award nominee. He did commercials and played a newscaster in episodes of Batman.