I worked with Peter Thomas in the 70’s and 80’s in New York. Back then he would come in to town about 2 or 3 days a week, setup in whatever recording studio and knock out about 8 to 10 sessions, then put on his hat and back to Connecticut. I used to say when I died I wanted to come back as a VO guy, it was really Peter Thomas I was thinking of.
One of the nicest, most civil, most pleasant people I have ever worked with. And technically there was nobody like him – he had a thin reedy voice that disappeared so that you only heard the writers words – he did not intrude on the copy. Writers loved him. And because the tonal quality of his voice was never upfront you never got tired of hearing him, he would have dozens of commercials on the air at the same time and most people never realized they were all by the same person.
There was nothing like working with him on medical narrations – he knew all the Latin based terms and their pronunciations better than the clients, and he could control his breath so that his phrasing was based on the writers content – he paused for punctuation, never for his need for air.
I was just a youngster when I worked with him but he never treated me that way – it was an honor to know him, and my best wishes go out to his family and loved ones.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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