Tuesday, July 30, 2013

LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES - SHAARON CLARIDGGE & SAM LANIER


Today's two examples of the League of Themselves were not technically seen on your TV screens.  But they were heard, in nearly every episode of their respective series.

SHAARON CLARIDGE

AS HEARD IN:
'Adam-12'

From Wikipedia:
Shaaron Claridge, now retired, was a second-shift radio-telephone operator or police radio dispatcher at the Van Nuys Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Women were primarily desired as police radio dispatchers because LAPD psychologists thought that women's voices would have a more soothing and calming effect over the airwaves. The idea was that, should an officer (male) have been pinned down by gunfire and/or wounded, yet was still within radio contact, hearing the female dispatcher's tone would help keep the officer from panicking until back-up arrived at the scene. Her husband was an LAPD motorcycle officer.

For a time from the late 1960s into the late 1970s, she was a voice actress credited with primarily providing police dispatch voice work for 'Adam-12' and also a few other television shows (i.e., 'Dragnet', 'Lou Grant' and 'Columbo'). Her voice work as the police dispatcher ("1-Adam-12, 1-Adam-12, see the man . . .") was featured in all but one or two episodes of that series. 


And then we have:

SAM LANIER

AS HEARD IN:
'Emergency'

From Wikipedia:
LACoFD Dispatcher Sam Lanier portrayed himself in an uncredited voice role (over the radio) throughout the series, and he is also occasionally shown in a brief clip at the dispatch office just before a dispatch is heard in later seasons.

For a more detailed biography of the man, click here.


BCnU!

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