Art Gilmore, Hollywood narrator was 98 *

Art Gilmore narrated hundreds of movie trailers, television episodes and radio shows. He also worked back in the day as a news announcer at KFWB and KNX. He died Sept. 25 of natural causes. From Leonard Maltin's appreciation at IndieWire:

As I chatted with him at our first meeting, I could scarcely believe that I was sitting across from the man whose voice boomed out the unforgettable words, “LIVE—FROM TELEVISION CITY IN HOLLYWOOD” every week at the beginning of The Red Skelton Show. That was my indelible memory of his all-American voice. Art announced many famous shows on radio (Amos ‘n’ Andy, Dr. Christian, Red Ryder) and television (The George Gobel Show, Climax, Shower of Stars, Highway Patrol) and also acted, mostly for Jack Webb on Dragnet (as a police captain), Emergency!, and Adam-12. Broadcasters also know that Art gave back to his profession, serving as both local and national president of AFTRA, and donating his services to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.

Here's Gilmore's classic opening to "Highway Patrol" in the 1950s. Love that old L.A. area scenery.

* Added: Radio reporter Michael Linder talked to Gilmore about the history of radio in Hollywood, for the final broadcast of KNX from Columbia Square. Audio