Edwin W. Reimers (October 26, 1912 – August 16, 2009) was an American
actor
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active during the 1950s and 1960s, who also served as the
stentorian-voiced announcer for such early
Warner Brothers
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television series
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as ''
Cheyenne
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'' and ''
Maverick'': "From the entertainment capital of the world, produced for television by Warner Brothers." Then he would recite the title and cast: "Maverick! Starring
Jack Kelly and
Roger Moore
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!"
Early years
Reimers was born in Moline, Illinois.
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Military service
During World War II, Reimers served with the U.S. Marines in the Pacific.[
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Career
After being a radio announcer in the 1930s, Reimers worked as a newscaster at KTTV
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in Los Angeles. He also was host of ''Movieland Matinee'' on KTTV.[
Reimers narrated several episodes of the first ]Brian Keith
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series, ''Crusader'', which aired on CBS from 1955 to 1956Pantomime Quiz
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'' on television.
Reimers was also the original announcer for '' Do You Trust Your Wife?'' when Edgar Bergen
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hosted, but was replaced by Bob LeMond
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in the fall of 1956. He appeared as Admiral Fitzpatrick in 1967 in the '' Star Trek: The Original Series'' episode "The Trouble with Tribbles
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" and also reprised the pivotal role via archival footage
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in the '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode "Trials and Tribble-ations
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".
Reimers is perhaps best known, though, as spokesman for the Allstate
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Corporation in their long-running series of television commercials
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in the United States
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, advising viewers that they were "in good hands with Allstate."Lockheed Lockheed (originally spelled Loughead) may refer to:
Brands and enterprises
* Lockheed Corporation, a former American aircraft manufacturer
* Lockheed Martin, formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta
** Lockheed Mar ...
Space and Missile Systems Division, Sunnyvale
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, California
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, and by the Aerojet-General Corporation Solid Rocket Plant in Sacramento
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, California.
Reimers was a native of Moline, Illinois
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, and died on 16 August 2009 in Saratoga Springs, New York
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References
External links
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Ed Reimers doing Allstate commercial (from YouTube)
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1912 births
2009 deaths
People from Moline, Illinois
People from Greater Los Angeles
American broadcasters
20th-century American male actors