Voiceover artist and singer Elmer ‘Len’ Dresslar died earlier this month after a battle with cancer. He was 80.
Dresslar, best known of providing the booming voice of the Jolly Green Giant in the canned sweet corn ads, also provided voiceovers for Rice Krispies cereal, Marlboro cigarettes and Amoco oil.
Tara Johnson, a spokeswoman for General Mills, which owns Green Giant Co, says, “His was the most consistent and most frequent voice of the Jolly Green Giant over the years, the one consumers are going to recognize.”
His daughter Teri Bennett said of her father’s Green Giant work, “He never got tired of it. If nothing else, it put my sister and I through college.”
Besides his television work, Dresslar also enjoyed a long singing career and released 15 albums with the The Singers Unlimited Jazz Group.
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