 Though the robot character appeared in the 1998 "Lost in Space" film, with Dick Tufeld reprising his role as the robot's voice, May did not fill the role of fitting inside the robot in the movie remake.May's home in an upscale mobile home park in the San Fernando Valley was destroyed in the November 2008 California wildfires that hit the Los Angeles area, though he and his wife were able to escape without injury.May died at age 69 on January 18, 2009 at a hospital in Lancaster, California of congestive heart failure.