Actor/Stuntman Bob May has died of congestive heart failure at the age of 69. May played the Robot on TV’s Lost in Space during the 1960s.
May worked on stage and screen for decades but was best known for The Robot, a role he claimed to have won by accident.
June Lockhart (Maureen Robinson) said, “He always said he got the job because he fit in the robot suit. It was one of those wonderful Hollywood stories. He just happened to be on the studio lot when someone saw him and sent him to see (series creator) Irwin Allen about the part. Allen said, ‘If you can fit in the suit you’ve got the job.'”
May didn’t supply the famous voice of the Robot, that honour goes to Dick Tufeld.
