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When Did Lowell Thomas Die?
Life & Death
Died aged 89GenderMaleNationalityUnited StatesBorn06/04/1892Born inWoodington, Ohio, USADied29/08/1981 (aged 89)Died inPawlingWikidataQ2499689 ↗Buried atChrist Church CemeteryTMDb#1242585 ↗
Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, Thomas appeared regularly on radio and occasionally on television as a travel and news commentator. Until the 1950s, he was a narrator of Movietone newsreels shown in cinemas.
Read full Wikipedia article ↗Filmography29 titles
| Year | Title | Character | Age at release |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Cinerama AdventureMovie | Self (archive) | 110 |
| 1979 | IkeSeries | Narrator (voice) | 87 |
| 1979 | The Legend of LasseterMovie | Self | 87 |
| 1977 | The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It GreedMovie | Narrator | 85 |
| 1976 | Amelia EarhartMovie | Broadcaster | 84 |
| 1976 | Yesterday's WitnessMovie | Self - Narrator (voice) | 84 |
| 1975 | The Moving Picture Boys in the Great WarMovie | narrator | 83 |
| 1970 | PattonMovie | Self - Movietone News Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 78 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett ShowSeries | Self - Guest | 76 |
| 1968 | Around the World of Mike ToddMovie | Self | 76 |
| 1963 | The Best of CineramaMovie | Narrator | 71 |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin ShowSeries | Self | 70 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas ShowSeries | Self | 69 |
| 1961 | The Challenge of IdeasMovie | Self | 69 |
| 1957 | Search for ParadiseMovie | Himself/Narrator | 65 |
| 1956 | Narcotics: A Challenge to YouthMovie | Narrator | 64 |
| 1952 | This Is CineramaMovie | Host / Narrator | 60 |
| 1948 | The Chicken of TomorrowMovie | — | 56 |
| 1946 | Along the Rainbow TrailMovie | Narrator | 54 |
| 1942 | United We StandMovie | Narrator (voice) | 50 |
| 1939 | I'll Tell the WorldMovie | Narrator (voice) | 47 |
| 1938 | Titans of the DeepMovie | Narrator | 46 |
| 1937 | Killers of the SeaMovie | Narrator | 45 |
| 1937 | Highway ManiaMovie | Narrator | 45 |
| 1937 | America Marching OnMovie | Host / Narrator | 45 |
| 1933 | Mussolini SpeaksMovie | — | 41 |
| 1931 | The Blonde CaptiveMovie | Self | 39 |
| 1930 | It's a BirdMovie | Self | 38 |
| 1930 | Africa Speaks!Movie | Himself (narrator) | 38 |