Bob May, the man who sat inside and operated the robot from the 1960s television series Lost in Space has died at the age of 69. (LIS was produced from 1965 to 1968... he was a young man then.) Even though Dick Tufeld was the voice of the machine, May was responsible for infusing the prop -- designed by Robert Kinoshita -- with some kind of personality. I think he succeeded.Washington Post obit...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011900600.html
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