Bern Bennett (born October 19, 1921) is an American radio and television announcer. For nearly sixty years, beginning in 1944, he was a staff announcer at CBS. In the 1940s and 1950s he was closely associated with Bud Collyer, as announcer on three Collyer-hosted game shows: "Winner Take All", "Beat the Clock", and "To Tell the Truth". In 1957, Bennett was the subject of a contest on "Clock" in which viewers were asked to "Draw the Masked Announc...
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Bern Bennett (born October 19, 1921) is an American radio and television announcer. For nearly sixty years, beginning in 1944, he was a staff announcer at CBS. In the 1940s and 1950s he was closely associated with Bud Collyer, as announcer on three Collyer-hosted game shows: "Winner Take All", "Beat the Clock", and "To Tell the Truth". In 1957, Bennett was the subject of a contest on "Clock" in which viewers were asked to "Draw the Masked Announcer" (meaning draw what they thought Bennett looked like); Bennett, who was never seen on-camera, made an appearance with the winner, Edward Darnell of Columbus, Indiana, who had been flown to New York to be a contestant on "Clock". Collyer often kidded Bennett about the tendency for his voice to break when introducing "America's number-one clock watcher... BUD COLLYER," and his voice breaking on the word "Collyer." Bennett was announcer on "Clock" until it moved from CBS to ABC in 1958.
Bennett also served as fill-in announcer on such shows as...
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