After being a radio announcer in the 1930s, Reimers worked as a newscaster at
KTTV in Los Angeles. He also was host of
Movieland Matinee on KTTV. and was one of three announcers during the 12-year run of
Pantomime Quiz on television. Reimers was also the original announcer for
Do You Trust Your Wife? when
Edgar Bergen hosted, but was replaced by
Bob LeMond in the fall of 1956. He appeared as Admiral Fitzpatrick in 1967 in the
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "
The Trouble with Tribbles" and also reprised the pivotal role via
archival footage in the
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "
Trials and Tribble-ations". Reimers is perhaps best known, though, as spokesman for the
Allstate Corporation in their long-running series of
television commercials in the
United States, advising viewers that they were "in good hands with Allstate." Reimers was the TV spokesman for Allstate for 22 years, from 1957 until 1979. Reimers was also a popular narrator of industrial films, especially those made by
Lockheed Space and Missile Systems Division,
Sunnyvale,
California, and by the Aerojet-General Corporation Solid Rocket Plant in
Sacramento, California. Reimers was a native of
Moline, Illinois, and died on 16 August 2009 in
Saratoga Springs, New York. ==References==