---
name: "Westbrook Van Voorhis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/westbrook-van-voorhis"
fi1m_id: "westbrook-van-voorhis"
imdb_id: "nm0888214"
tmdb_id: 1471692
wikidata_id: "Q7987185"
roles: []
born: "21 September 1903"
died: "13 July 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:19:48.038836+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Westbrook Van Voorhis

## Identity

Westbrook Van Voorhis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/westbrook-van-voorhis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** westbrook-van-voorhis
- **IMDb ID:** nm0888214
- **TMDB ID:** 1471692
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7987185
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbrook_Van_Voorhis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7987185, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888214/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1471692

Actor. Born 21 September 1903 in New Milford. Died 13 July 1968.

## Details

- **Born:** 21 September 1903, New Milford
- **Died:** 13 July 1968
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbrook_Van_Voorhis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7987185, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888214/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1471692

## Biography

Westbrook Van Voorhis was an American actor and narrator, best known for his authoritative voice work in radio and film documentaries. Born Cornelius Westbrook Van Voorhis on 21 September 1903 in New Milford, Connecticut, he attended the United States Naval Academy before entering broadcasting in the late 1920s.

He became the narrator for the long-running *The March of Time* radio and newsreel series, delivering the signature sign-off “Time... marches on!”. His other narration credits include the 1939 film *The Roaring Twenties*, the television series *Justice* (1954–1956) and *Panic!* (1957–1958), and several military and documentary films. Van Voorhis also appeared on screen as TV Person to Person in the 1961 comedy *The Ladies Man*.

He died of cancer on 13 July 1968 in New Milford, aged 64.

*Sources: nytimes.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Ladies Man* (1961), Fi1m 72, as TV Person to Person — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ladies-man.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Ladies Man* (1961), as TV Person to Person — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ladies-man.md)
- *The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler* (1958), as Narrator
- *Walk East on Beacon* (1952), as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- *Crusade in Europe* (1949), series, as Narrator (voice)
- *The March of Time: Crisis in Italy* (1948), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: The Russians Nobody Knows* (1947), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: The Teachers’ Crisis* (1947), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: Fashion Means Business* (1947), as Narrator
- *Atomic Power!* (1946), as Narrator
- *American Beauty* (1945), as Narrator (voice)
- *The March of Time: Where's the Meat?* (1945), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: Teen-Age Girls* (1945), as Narrator
- *Seeing Them Through* (1945), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: Report on Italy* (1945), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: The Unknown Battle* (1944), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: What To Do with Germany* (1944), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: Post-War Farms* (1944), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: Underground Report* (1944), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: The Irish Question* (1944), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: South American Front — 1944* (1944), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: Sweden's Middle Road* (1944), as Narrator
- *We Are the Marines* (1942), as Narrator
- *Africa, Prelude to Victory* (1942), as Narrator (voice)
- *The March of Time: The Fighting French* (1942), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: Rehearsal for War* (1937), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: An American Dictator* (1936), as Narrator
- *The March of Time: Croix de Feu* (1935), as Narrator

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