Several of you have written in to ask me the identity of the announcer on all those openings for the TV show Cannon. That was Hank Simms, one of the most-heard voices on TV, radio commercials, movie trailers and anywhere else they wanted a male voice with a "he-man" quality. He was heard on a lot of other TV show openings including Barnaby Jones, The F.B.I. and The Streets of San Francisco. He was also heard in the opening to Police Squad!, where he basically did a parody of Hank Simms. Mr. Simms passed away in 2013 but you can still sometimes hear an announcer trying to approximate a "Hank Simms delivery."