Peter Thomas

Acting

Peter Thomas

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Jun 28, 1924 (101 years old)
Death date
Apr 30, 2016

Peter Thomas

Known For

Monsters and Mysteries in Alaska
0h 43m
Movie 2010

Monsters and Mysteries in Alaska

Alaska – 90,000 square miles of wilderness. Could its uninhabited...

Phoenix Mars Mission: Onto the Ice
Movie 2009

Phoenix Mars Mission: Onto the Ice

A behind-the-scenes look at the Phoenix Mars Mission to land...

The Story of Florida's State Parks
0h 26m
TV Show 2009

The Story of Florida's State Parks

Florida has one of the most diverse landscapes in America,...

Speedway Junky
1h 44m
Movie 1999

Speedway Junky

A naive drifter runs away from his army father in...

The Case of the Flying Dinosaur
1h 0m
Movie 1997

The Case of the Flying Dinosaur

The long running, often bitter scientific debate over the origin...

The Land is Ours
1h 0m
Movie 1997

The Land is Ours

The Tlingit and Haida people of Alaska were confused by...

Forensic Files
0h 23m
TV Show 1996

Forensic Files

Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are...

How the West Was Lost
0h 45m
TV Show 1993

How the West Was Lost

The history of 19th-century America is the story of struggles...

Legends in Love
0h 34m
Movie 1989

Legends in Love

Take your seat on the aisle for weddings the world...

Alaska at War
1h 0m
Movie 1986

Alaska at War

The "Alaska at War" film project was an effort to...

Biography

Peter Addenbrooke Thomas was an American announcer and narrator of television programs with a career spanning more than 70 years, most well known for narrating the long-running true-crime series Forensic Files. Thomas performed voice-overs for hundreds of television commercials including Coca-Cola, IBM, Valvoline, NBC, United Technologies, Burger King, Beaumont Health and ESPN Monday Night Football commercials, as well as spots for social organizations including the YWCA and The Episcopal Church. He was in high demand for political advertisements and did several films for the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs. He also narrated the orientation video for the National World War I Museum at The Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. He narrated the Readers Digest video series The Crucial Turning Points of World War II. He also narrated the NCAA's official highlight film of the 1985 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. Thomas was heard in Paul Hardcastle's 1985 hit song "19," which Hardcastle composed after being inspired by a 1984 ABC documentary on the Vietnam War, titled Vietnam Requiem, which Thomas narrated. He narrated the Troll Associates series of audiobooks for children, including "Amazing World of Dinosaurs." He narrated the CD version of Tuck Everlasting, a novel by Natalie Babbitt. Thomas provided the digitized voice for Philips' HeartStart series of automated external defibrillator (AED) units used by emergency services nationwide. Thomas' voice prompts and instructs emergency personnel on when to perform tasks. Thomas was the announcer of the underwriting credits on the Nature TV series on PBS from the early 1980s through 2015. He also was the announcer of the underwriting credits for the NOVA TV series on PBS from 1988 through 1996. Thomas died on April 30, 2016, at the age of 91. He was memorialized at the end of the first episode of Forensic Files II which aired on February 23, 2020.