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Vic Perrin
Vic Perrin
Gender: Male
Medium(s): Television
Roles: Actor
Born: April 26th, 1916
Birthplace: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
Died: July 4th, 1989
Deathplace: Los Angeles, California
Notable works: The Outer Limits
Star Trek
Super Friends
Flash Gordon
1st Sci-Fi: Twilight Zone: People are Alike All Over

Vic Perrin was an American actor and voice artist born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin on April 26th, 1916. Although he has done a lot of work both on onscreen and behind-the-scenes in a variety of science fiction venues, Perrin is best known for his portrayl of the Control voice featured in the opening and closing sequences of episodes of the original 1960s sci-fi anthology series The Outer Limits. The opening of each episode of the series began with the following narration:

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the… More vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.

Perrin also had voice-over and character roles in three classic Star Trek episodes. During the first season, he voiced the Metron in "Arena", where Captain James T. Kirk fought the Gorn. He was also the head man on a planet of pacifists who would not trade dilithium crystals, in "Mirror, Mirror", and the voice of Nomad in "The Changeling", both second season episodes. He also guest-starred on a 1981 episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century entitled "The Guardians".

Outside of the sci-fi genre, Perrin was a regular performer on old-time radio, appearing in many different programs. He was a regular guest star on the radio version of Gunsmoke and wrote at least one script for the show. One of his first TV roles was in a 1953 episode of Adventures of Superman entitled "The Golden Vulture", where he played a hapless sailor on board a freighter run by a self-styled pirate. One of his greatest voice-overs and a true legacy, he is the voice used on the AED Automatic External Defibrillator used all over the nation to save lives. Vic Perrin played minor character roles on numerous TV series in the 1950s and 1960s including Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Have Gun — Will Travel, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible. He was a regular voice-over in the original Jonny Quest cartoon series (as the voice of Dr. Zin and other villains). He voiced the villain, The Gimmick, in an episode of Blue Falcon.

He played a voyeuristic serial killer in the 1966 made-for-TV movie Dragnet, which served as a pilot episode for the color version of the TV series. To the legions of fans of the Super Friends series, Perrin's voice is well known as the voice of villain, Sinestro, an arch-nemesis of Green Lantern.

Vic Perrin continued to do voice-overs and to play character roles until a few years before his death. Perrin passed away in Los Angeles, California on July 4th, 1989.

Body of work[]

Film[]

Film Year Role
Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All 1982 Ming the Merciless

Television[]

Series Episode Role
The Twilight Zone People are Alike All Over March 25th, 1960 Martian
The Twilight Zone Ring-A-Ding Girl December 27th, 1963 Trooper
The Outer Limits The Hundred Days of the Dragon September 23rd, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Man With the Power October 7th, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Man Who Was Never Born October 28th, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits O.B.I.T. November 4th, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Human Factor November 11th, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits Corpus Earthling November 18th, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits Nightmare December 2nd, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits Tourist Attraction December 23rd, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Zanti Misfits December 30th, 1963 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Mice January 6th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits Don't Open Till Doomsday January 20th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits ZZZZZ January 27th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Invisibles February 3rd, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Bellero Shield February 10th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Children of Spider County February 17th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits Specimen: Unknown February 24th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits Second Chance March 2nd, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits Moonstone March 9th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Mutant March 16th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Guests March 23rd, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits Fun and Games March 30th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits A Feasibility Study April 13th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits Production and Decay of Strange Particles April 20th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Inheritors (Part 1) November 21st, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Duplicate Man December 19th, 1964 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Brain of Colonel Barham January 2nd, 1965 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Premonition January 9th, 1965 Control voice
The Outer Limits The Probe January 16th, 1965 Control voice
Space Ghost Creature King January 1st, 1966 Creature King
Star Trek The Menagerie (Part 2) November 24th, 1966 The Keeper
Star Trek Arena January 19th, 1967 Metron
Star Trek The Changeling September 29th, 1967 Nomad
Star Trek Mirror, Mirror October 6th, 1967 Tharn
The Invaders Summit Meeting (Part 1) October 31st, 1967 Hypnotist alien
Land of the Giants Genius at Work March 9th, 1969 Giant shoved by Fitzhugh
Project U.F.O. Sighting 4007: The Forest City Incident April 9th, 1978 Pete
Project U.F.O. Sighting 4025: The Whitman Tower Incident July 12th, 1979 Rashoon
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Awakening September 20th, 1979 Draconia PA announcer
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Guardians January 29th, 1981 1st Guardian

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