Peter Thomas

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 longrunning truecrime series Forensic Files Thomas performed voiceovers for hundreds of television commercials including CocaCola 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 NCAAs official highlight film of the 1985 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament Thomas was heard in Paul Hardcastles 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