Bill Cunningham, Original Voice of Barbie’s Ken, Dead at 96


Barbieland has misplaced a Ken.

Invoice Cunningham—the unique voice of Barbie’s boyfriend Ken—died on July 15 at his West Hollywood house, in line with CESD Expertise Company, the firm he based greater than 5 many years in the past. He was 96.

The businessman was “among the many nice innovators and gents of the expertise illustration enterprise,” CESD companions Ken Slevin and Paul Doherty mentioned in a press release Deadline. “Invoice set the template for shopper and customer support, notably in business, voice-over and print. He was a heat, gregarious, elegant man who made a optimistic affect on all these he represented and employed.”

The 2 added, “It was our honor to know him and to be taught from him.”

A explanation for dying was not given.

Born in San Francisco, Cunningham served within the U.S. Navy earlier than discovering his footing in Hollywood as a singer. He appeared on Voices of Walter Schumann and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Present, in addition to carried out on varied film soundtracks for Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros.