'He was a really cool guy:' Actor who voiced Lost in Space robot, Dick Tufeld, dies aged 85







Dick Tufeld, who voiced The Robot in the TV series Lost in Space, died on Sunday aged 85, after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease.



He passed away peacefully in a hospital in Los Angeles, according to reports.



'Everything just caught up to him,' his Space co-star Bill Mumy said. 'He lost his wife a few years ago and lost his pep after that.'

Icon: Dick Tufeld passed away in Los Angeles on Sunday at the age of 85



Tufeld’s voice work as the Robot on the 1965-1968 series made the line 'Danger, Will Robinson!' famous.



He also voiced the character in the 1998 movie adaptation of the series which starred William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Gary Oldman, Matt Leblanc, and Heather Graham.



Tufeld reprised the role to cult acclaim on episodes of The Simpsons.

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The last of which would prove to be his final screen credit in the episode Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore in 2004, according to the Internet Movie Database.



Tufeld also narrated series such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel, which were also the works of Space creator Irwin Allen.



When Irwin asked Tufeld to do a robotic voice for Lost In Space, Irwin found it hard to explain the type of voice he wanted for the robot and Tufeld almost failed to land the part because he could not understand what Irwin wanted.

'Dick Tufeld was a really cool guy,' Mumy wrote on his Facebook page.

'He's reunited with his wife Adrian now,'; said series co-star Bill Mumy, who played Will Robinson. 'R.I.P. Dick. You will be missed big time.'