Bob May LOST IN SPACE

[MrDark1]

Bob May portrayed the Robot in the Lost In Space TV series.

[Scatter]

The 2009 bloodbath continues............RIP

[michblk]

Nooo, not the Bubble-Headed Booby!!!

RIP Bob! 

Brian

[MonsterArt]

This is very sad. Bob was a real sweetheart of a guy, and I grew to become very fond of him. For all the years I knew him, he could never get my first name right. Marta Kristen or somebody nearby would correct him, but he'd get it wrong again the next time. After a while I gave up, and just let him call me "Fred."

I'll miss that. So long, Bob.

[Scatter]

Nooo, not the Bubble-Headed Booby!!!

RIP Bob! 

Brian

LOL!! I remember that!! Mr Smith AND the Bubble-Headed Booby gone now. But what wonderful memories they left us.

[The Spangler]

 Yeah, this is sad.  LIS wouldn't have gotten past a half dozen episodes without "the robot"(or, as Guy Williams would pronounce it, 'the RO-but').  Or without Dr. Smith, for that matter!  Those two definitely made the show.  RIP Bob May.

[CreepysFan]

 Me and my friends would always play Lost In Space during recess and after school back in the early `70's, I was always John Robinson.  The show was a big part of our childhood, we would watch it at one another's house.  Part of me never wanted to admit that the Robot was an actual person inside even after I learned who it was years later, and I never dreamed I'd be reading this post.  This one hits me just as much as Forry's death did.  Two huge chunks of my chilhood innocence gone in less than three months.  I don't know about anybody else, but this has been a sickly depressing year for me.  I hope Uncle Forry has given the "Tin plated ninny" a warm friendly welcome into the other side.  Rest in peace Bob May, I hope you know all the happiness you brought us in life. 

[Jscareshock]

Bob may was a great guy.  I met him at Chiller Theatre several times.  During his last visit I was helping the Dead Elvi set up for their performance and Bob came back to visit.  he started reciting all of his old Vaudville routines.  he was hilarious.  We were all ins titches. He told me he was working on an autobiography.  I don't know if it ever got published, but he was a gem of a human being.

[ChattyLMS]

I loved Lost in Space, too.  So did my Dad.  I think he believed that someday space technology would progress to the point of Lost in Space only on a realistic basis.  We used to play Lost in Space in our backyard.  I got to play Judy.  My version of Judy always got to kiss Don.  Nobody ever played Don so I didn't really have to kiss a boy, that was yucky back then!  Anyway, I never knew that there was a person inside the robot suit.  I never thought about it one way or another.  Bob May did such a good job of portraying the robot.  It's a shame that he never got credit for his very special role.  He will be missed.   

[Universal Steve]

I still watch Lost In Space every Thursday on American Life Channel. It is a show that has withstood time. It is still just as entertaining as it was when I was a kid. The chemistry between Dr. Smith and the Robot was perfect. Bob May- a great character actor and will never be forgotten.

[typhooforme]

One of the funniest, kindest people in the business.  I met him and his wife at Wonderfest and liked them from the get-go.  Over the years I was happy to be able to give him pieces of memorabilia having to do with his grandpa, Chic Johnson (Olsen & Johnson, comedy team-THE GHOST CATCHERS, with Gloria Jean).  He was so tickled with even the least thing.  Two favorite memories of Bob:  The evening I mentioned Gloria Jean to him--he got teary-eyed telling me what a sweetheart she is, as he'd run into her at a Los Angeles autograph con and she'd told him how much she liked his grandpa and how kind all his family had been to her when she was doing GHOST CATCHERS.  Bob said, "You just don't find people who will tell you so many nice things like that about your whole family--it meant a lot to me!"  The other, a typical Bob story:  He'd been in the Broadway production of LIFE WITH FATHER in the 1940s, as one of the many children in the family--and there was a scene at the dinner table when he was supposed to butt into the conversation and show everyone his sore finger--and someone had encouraged him (and knowing Bob, it probably didn't take that much encouraging!) to hold up the--um---the wrong finger, let's say.  And of course it broke everyone up, and if it didn't "stop the show", it surely put an unexpected laugh in it.  Bob was a grand old trooper and this world is gloomier without him.