Monday, January 19, 2009

An actor you never knew, but did...

Bob May, the person who sat inside and operated "Robot" in "Lost in Space" has died.

He was particularly fond of his Robot role, once saying he came to consider the suit a “home away from home.”

Lockhart said May wore the suit for hours at a time and learned the lines of every actor in the show so he would know when to respond to their cues. Because it wasn’t easy to get in and out of the suit, he kept it on during breaks.

“He was a smoker,” Lockhart remembered. “From time to time (when he was on a break), we’d see smoke coming out of the robot. That always amused us.”


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090119/ap_on_en_tv/obit_may

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

WHoops, I meant Dick Tufeld. I forgot May wore the suit. my bad. You can kill the last post.