Yesterday would have been Clayton "Bud" Collyer's 100th birthday.
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Collyer was the first actor to give voice to Superman. He played the Man of Steel on radio through most of the 1940s, using a pleasant tenor voice for Clark Kent, then shifting to a base for Superman. His spot-on characterization was one of the strengths of a classic old-time radio show.
He also gave voice to Superman in the classic Fleischer studio cartoon made in the 1940s. (He returned in the 1960s to play Superman in the not-so-classic Filmation cartoons.)
For your viewing pleasure, here's one of the best of the Fleischer cartoons:
The Mechanical Monsters
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