Brian Nissen

Continuity commercial voice overs and Brit TV actor in 50s and 60s Brian Nissen 20 October 1927 in London 8 February 2001 in Salisbury Wiltshire was a British actor and television continuity announcer Nissen made an early appearance in Laurence Oliviers film of Shakespeares Henry V and made many TV film and stage appearances including The Dam Busters 1955 and the television series The New Adventures of Charlie Chan and Sword of Freedom in 1957 But he is probably bestremembered as an invision announcer for Southern Television where his formal style seemed to sum up the companys aesthetic He joined Southern at its inception in 1958 and stayed until its demise in 1981 and was kept on by the successor company TVS despite its general policy of breaking with Southerns conservatism He retired from TVS in August 1987 Nissen died on 8 February 2001 in Salisbury Wiltshire at the age of 73 Wikipedia