Bob Johnson (born Robert Cleveland Johnson in 1921 in Portland, Oregon - died 1994) was an Americanactor and voice actor who played supporting roles on series television and in films from the late 1950s til a few years before he died. He frequently read voice-over work on The Outer Limits, portrayed the uncredited role of the Transporter Chief in the first Star Trek pilot episode The Menagerie, and may have been involved in English-language dubbing on lesser-known spaghetti westerns. However, Johnson is probably best known as the "voice behind the scenes", who gave Special Agents Dan Briggs and Jim Phelps their recorded mission briefings on the Mission: Impossible TV series. 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown Official website: http://www. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Opening titles â 1960s The Outer Limits is a television series from the United States. ... Star Trek collectively refers to an American science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series (which comprise 726 episodes) and ten feature films, in addition to hundreds of novels, computer and video games, fan stories, and other works of fiction â all of which are set within the same fictional universe... Movie poster for Once Upon a Time in the West Spaghetti Westerns is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most of them were produced by Italian studios. ... Mission: Impossible is the name of an American television series which aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to September 1973. ...
Robert (Bob) Johnson (1921 – 1994) was an American voice actor.
Johnson may be best remembered as the weekly voice-over for two popular television series of the 1960s.
He was the voice of numerous alien creatures featured in The Outer Limits (1963 – 1965) and the voice on the self-destructing tape that delivered each week's mission to the IMF's Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible (1967 – 1973).