Due to the extreme cost-cutting by Filmation,[citation needed] the cast of voice actors was small, and producer Lou Scheimer actually performed the bulk of the character voices.
Although generally recognized for his work on He-Man, Erwin has many years of voice acting to his credit (including the voice of Reggie Mantle in Filmation's Archie cartoons), and has provided voices for many productions ranging from television advertisements to live-action movies since the 1960s.
[1] In 1989, his voice was heard as a radio newscaster in Back to the Future Part II[1] and as a football announcer in the 2000 Disney movie Remember the Titans.
Erwin had moved away from California by 2010,[2] although in 2019 Alan Oppenheimer stated he had recently visited Erwin in his retirement community in Thousand Oaks, California.
[4] Erwin died at his home in Camarillo, California, on or around December 20, 2024, at the age of 88.