Ron Lackmann

The son of Minerva and Frederick Lackmann, Ron Lackmann grew up in Queens, New York. While he was attending Hofstra University in the 1950s, he played Bud on the NBC radio soap opera series 'Pepper Young's Family'. After graduating from college, he was drafted into the US Army and served as a Personnel and Broadcast Specialist at Fort Dix's WFDH radio station where he produced and narrated the 'Lifeline' series and directed and acted in over fifty radio dramas. After his discharge from the Army, Lackmann toured the US in stage productions of Auntie Mame, The Boy Friend, Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, The Moon Is Blue, Death Of A Salesman and other plays and was seen on the TV series 'The First Hundred Years' and 'The Verdict is Yours'. He subsequently taught Speech and Drama for the Valley Stream Central HS District, hosted the Education In Action program for WHLI, Hempstead, New York, was a frequent co-host on WOR's Joe Franklin Show, was the narrator of Pan Am's "Music In The Air" programs, and was the voice of several cartoon characters including Farmer Grey on the syndicated Farmer Grey series. Lackmann has written over thirty books including Remember Radio, Remember Television, The Bonnie And Clyde Scrapbook (with Barbara Gelman), The Tv Soap Opera Almanac, The Encyclopedia Of American Radio, This Was Radio, Women Of The Western Frontier: In Fact, Fiction And Film, The Encyclopedia Of American Network Television and numerous books for Xerox Education Publicions. Lackmann continues to be active as a voice over performer and author.