Dick Orkin created the “Chickenman” radio character in the 1960s but is known to more recent radio listeners as the voice on the First American Bank “grandma” commercials. Orkin died in 2017. Who is doing the voice now? He does not have the ironic tone that Orkin used.
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I miss Dick Orkin
- Thread starter Ken Gustafson
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I don't know who voices those commercials now, but Dick Orkin was a genius. In the mid 60s he and his crew on WCFL were fantastic and the commercials he created and voiced in the 70s and 80s always made me laugh regularly.
Orkin can't be duplicated. He was one of a kind. Same goes for Jim Runyan, the Chickenman "announcer" WELLLL.
They were quite a team.
Dick Orkin's work is a testament to the creative and artistic potential of radio, both on the entertainment side and also the advertising side. His style actually inspired my username as he was a master of theater-of-the-mind radio, and could make it work so very well even in a 30-second spot. I only wish there were more like him left in the business.
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