<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1945--2004 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Adrienne Tufeld (1948--2004, her death) </Td> </Tr> <P> Richard Norton "Dick" Tufeld (December 11, 1926--January 22, 2012) was an American actor, announcer, narrator and voice actor from the late 1940s until the early 21st century . He was a well - known presence on television as an announcer, but his most famous role as the Robot in the television series, Lost in Space . </P> <P> Born in Los Angeles, California, to a Russian father and a Canadian mother, he spent his childhood in Pasadena, California . Tufeld attended the Northwestern University School of Communication, then known as the university's School of Speech . In 1945, he obtained a job as an engineer at KLAC, a radio station in Los Angeles . </P>

Who voiced the robot in lost in space