Vic Perrin

Vic Perrin built a long career as a radio, film, and television actor and voice artist, with his most widely recognized assignment as the Control Voice narrator on The Outer Limits during its original run. A Wisconsin native, he finished college at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the late 1930s and moved to California in 1940. In radio he announced for NBC, became chief announcer at the Blue Network, acted in Charles Laughton's repertory group, wrote scripts for Gunsmoke, and played Ross Farnsworth on One Man's Family and Sergeant Gorse on Fort Laramie. On television he appeared in early Adventures of Superman, returned to Dragnet across sixteen episodes and its 1967 revival, and guest-starred on The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Perry Mason, The Untouchables, and Mannix. He voiced Dr. Zin on Jonny Quest and many Scooby-Doo characters, and later narrated Spaceship Earth and Universe of Energy at Epcot.