Peter Thomas
Biography
Peter Addenbrooke Thomas was an American announcer and narrator of television programs with a career spanning more than 70 years, most well known for narrating the long-running true-crime series Forensic Files.
Thomas performed voice-overs for hundreds of television commercials including Coca-Cola, IBM, Valvoline, NBC, United Technologies, Burger King, Beaumont Health and ESPN Monday Night Football commercials, as well as spots for social organizations including the YWCA and The Episcopal Church. He was in high demand for political advertisements and did several films for the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs. He also narrated the orientation video for the National World War I Museum at The Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.
He narrated the Readers Digest video series The Crucial Turning Points of World War II. He also narrated the NCAA's official highlight film of the 1985 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. Thomas was heard in Paul Hardcastle's 1985 hit song "19," which Hardcastle composed after being inspired by a 1984 ABC documentary on the Vietnam War, titled Vietnam Requiem, which Thomas narrated.
He narrated the Troll Associates series of audiobooks for children, including "Amazing World of Dinosaurs." He narrated the CD version of Tuck Everlasting, a novel by Natalie Babbitt.
Peter Thomas — movies and TV shows
7.1SeriesNOVA
1974
7.9SeriesForensic Files
1996
SeriesChanging Seas
2009
SeriesMysterious Places
FilmFear Woman
1971
5.4FilmSpeedway Junky
1999
FilmDoctor Who: The Savages
2025
7.0FilmChildren of Darkness
1983
FilmA Time For Peace
1973
10.0SeriesThe Story of Florida's State Parks
2009
SeriesHow the West Was Lost
1993
FilmThe Case of the Flying Dinosaur
1997
8.5FilmVietnam Requiem
1982
FilmThe Land is Ours
1997
FilmPhoenix Mars Mission: Onto the Ice
2009
FilmLegends in Love
1989
9.0FilmSR-71 Blackbird: The Secret Vigil
1990
8.5FilmMonsters and Mysteries in Alaska
2010
9.0FilmAmerican Sexual Revolution
1971