Bernard Cowan was a Canadian actor, producer and writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was occasionally credited under his nickname, Bunny Cowan. His name was pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable of "Bernard" and last name as "cow in".

Cowan worked as the announcer on many CBC television series such as The Pierre Berton Show, Front Page Challenge and Wayne and Shuster. He also worked on such animated series as Spider-Man, The Marvel Super Heroes, Rocket Robin Hood, The King Kong Show, and the Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Bernard Cowan was the father of the Canadian disc jockey and voice actor Rob Cowan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Cowan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.