{"id":348364,"date":"2021-10-05T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/alan-kalter-david-lettermans-late-show-announcer-dead-at-78\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:54:11","slug":"alan-kalter-david-lettermans-late-show-announcer-dead-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alan-kalter-david-lettermans-late-show-announcer-dead-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"#Alan Kalter, David Letterman&#8217;s &#8216;Late Show&#8217; announcer, dead at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Alan Kalter, David Letterman&#8217;s &#8216;Late Show&#8217; announcer, dead at 78<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/alan-kalter-obit-639.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Alan Kalter, the legendary on-air announcer with a melodramatic flair for two decades of \u201cThe Late Show with David Letterman,\u201d died Monday at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut. He was 78.<\/p>\n<p>His wife Peggy Kalter <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/alan-kalter-dead-letterman-late-show-announcer-1235025323\/\">confirmed his death<\/a> to the Hollywood Reporter. <\/p>\n<p>The bombastic, ginger-haired voice-over talent had scores of A-list credits \u2014 but remained loyal to the gap-toothed Hoosier who made him something of a household name for several decades. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a perfectionist,\u201d the longtime \u201cLate Show\u201d announcer told The Post before Letterman\u2019s iconic final episode aired in 2015. \u201cHe keeps the people that are doing the job they were hired to do. He\u2019s very complimentary when you do a good job.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Born Alan Robert Kalter in Brooklyn on March 21, 1943, he was a veteran behind-the-scenes talent before braving the cameras in September 1995 \u2014 a role he would fulfill for 20 years, until Letterman\u2019s final episode on May 20, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stayed away from the camera purposefully for 25 years because I didn\u2019t want to be recognized,\u201d Kalter told The Post of his on-camera avoidance in 2006. \u201cMy very first day on the set, I was dressed to kill, and Dave had an Olympic diver on the show and he said, \u2018Alan, do you swim?\u2019 Without any time to think about it, he said, \u2018Come on down,\u2019 and I came from the side of the stage and he took me by the wrist outside to 53rd, and I marched up a ladder and dove off into a Nike pool.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He ruined his suit and electronics he had on hand, but he was <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently hooked. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m doing the back-float looking up at the camera on the roof,\u201d he recalled of the incident. \u201cAnd I said to myself, \u2018So this is what it\u2019s like to announce for David Letterman.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1964 graduate of Hobart College in Geneva, New York, later attended law school at NYU and taught English and public speaking in high school on Long Island for several years before beginning his broadcasting career at the late, great NYC radio station WHN.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> show circuit: Kalter was the announcer on classic game shows\u00a0\u201cTo Tell the Truth,\u201d \u201cThe Money Maze\u201d (taped at The Ed Sullivan Theater, his future place of employment on Broadway) and \u201cThe $25,000 Pyramid.\u201d The latter gig is where he met Letterman, who was a guest celebrity on the show. He also specialized in voiceovers for hundreds of national commercials  \u2014 including the Michelin Man!<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, Kalter requested that donations in his memory be made to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tbe.org\/\">Temple Beth El<\/a>\u00a0in Stamford, Connecticut.\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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