Voice of Aquaman passes on..

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Have I mentioned how depressed I am every time something like this happens?

Norman Alden, a character actor who piled up a prodigious number of credits during his five decades in film and television, died July 27 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Los Angeles, his family reported. He was 87.

Alden appeared in several hundred television episodes, commercials and films (his family put the number at 2,500) but rarely had a regular gig, frequently playing tough guys and authority figures one show and one character at a time. Perhaps his most recognizable role was as Lou the mechanic in a series of AC Delco commercials.

Alden provided the voice of Aquaman in two "Super Friends" animated series in the 1970s, played outlaw Johnny Ringo in 1961 in "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" opposite Hugh O'Brian and was Coach Leroy Fedders on seven episodes of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" in the mid-1970s. His character drowned face-first in a bowl of Mary's (Louise Lasser's) chicken soup.

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Sad to see him go. I remember all these old voices fondly.

One of my all time favorites was Gerald Mohr who voiced Reed Richards on the Fantastic Four animated show in 1967 as well as Green Lantern on the filmation Justice League shorts. He passed away only a year after his role as Reed Richards. What a booming voice he had.

[Bill K.]

Norman Alden also played the electronics support tech on the "Electra-Woman and Dyna-Girl" segments of the Krofft Super Show.