Reid Kilpatrick

Anyone who's ever heard Reid Kilpatrick's voice must surely say to himself, "I've heard that voice before." Kilpatrick was a born broadcast announcer, and Hollywood seems to have taken him up on it since nearly every role he played was as the "voice" of an announcer. At the age of 22, Kilpatrick married Elinor Olst and started his radio career in the Detroit area. His first role was a few lines as an announcer at a tote board in the racing movie The Crowd Roars (1932). By his next role in 1937, he'd moved out to Los Angeles to make a go of it, but his marriage didn't last long in the big city. In 1939 his voice was cast as "announcer" in 11 movies, though the people of Los Angeles knew him more intimately for his work in radio, at station KEHE. In 1940, married to a co-ed by the name of Frances, eleven years his junior, he moved over to the, now legendary radio station, KHJ. Kilpatrick's initiation into actual acting began at the East Bakersfield auditorium in 1943 where he played Mo