Another Voice Silenced

[Lee Gordon]

Although not primarily known as a Voice Over artist, I'm sure he did his share, since the two professions are so closely related. Game show host Jack Narz died last week at age 85.

Jack Narz dies at 85; host of one of first programs involved in quiz-show scandals - Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-narz16-2008oct16,0,765784.story)

He was the prototypical game show host and I'm sure many who came after him patterned themselves on Narz. I'll bet he and some of his proteges had some influence on more than a few of us VO guys.

[John Zadikian]

Jack was also the brother of game show host Tom Kennedy, a Narz at birth who adopted a stage name to avoid confusion with Jack.

[Allen Brown]

Lee -

Thanks for pointing out the passing of Jack Narz. He and his family are from my home town, Louisville.

Here's an article (http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008810200356)from the Louisville Courier Journal written by my friend, David Inman.

Narz did, indeed, have a successful VO (or as it used to be called "announcing") career. As David's piece points out:

He'd even carved out a tiny place in trivia history as the announcer on the TV series "The Adventures of Superman."
Watch a rerun today -- listen to the guy at the end who says "Join us every week for 'The Adventures of Superman!' " That's Narz. The story goes that, as part of his compensation for saying that into a microphone in 1951, he was still getting residual checks for minuscule amounts 55 years later.
It must have been a pretty interesting life. It's one that certainly was emblematic of a certain generation who began in radio and moved to television when it -- and we -- were very young.