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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
''Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar'' is a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962. The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a private investigator drama, with Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien and John Lund portraying Dollar in succession over the years. In 1955 after a yearlong hiatus, the series came back in its best-known incarnation with Bob Bailey starring in "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense accountAmerica's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." There were 809 episodes (plus two not-for-broadcast auditions) in the 12-year run, and more than 710 still exist today. Jim Cox's book ''American Radio Networks: A History'' cites "886 total performances" which includes repeat performances. Format The format best remembered was instituted by writer-director Jack Johnstone. Each case usually started with a phone call from an insurance adjuster, calling on Johnny to investigate an unus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatized works of fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR ( old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, libraries and museums, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Bailey
Bob Bailey may refer to: *Bob Bailey (actor) (1913–1983), American radio actor *Bob Bailey (baseball) (1942–2018), American third baseman in Major League Baseball *Bob Bailey (ice hockey) (1931–2003), Canadian ice hockey right winger *Bob Bailey (rugby league), former New Zealand rugby league player and coach *Bob Bailey (politician) (born 1951), member of the Ontario legislature * Bob Bailey (photographer), United States Marine Corps World War II era combat photographer *Bobby Bailey, ''Invisible Children ''Invisible Children'' is a 2006 American documentary film that depicts the human rights abuses by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Synopsis In the spring of 2003, Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole traveled to Africa to document ...'' documentary filmmaker See also * Bobby Bailey (other) * Robert Bailey (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, Bob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Barrett
Tony Barrett (born Martin Lefkowitz; May 24, 1916 – November 16, 1974) was an American actor, writer, and producer. He was born on May 24, 1916 New York City. He worked as a radio and screen actor, screenwriter, and television writer and producer. Personal life He was married to writer Steffi Barrett Steffi is a feminine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Stephanie or Stefanie. Steffi is the name of: *Steffi Duna (1910-1992), Hungarian-born film actress born Erzébet Berindey * Steffi Götzelt (born 1960), East German retired rower .... He died of cancer in Los Angeles on November 16, 1974. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrett, Tony 1916 births 1974 deaths Male actors from New York City Deaths from cancer in California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barney Phillips
Bernard Philip Ofner (October 20, 1913 – August 17, 1982), better known by his stage name Barney Phillips, was an American film, television, and radio actor. His most prominent roles include that of Sgt. Ed Jacobs on the 1950s '' Dragnet'' television series, appearances in the 1960s on ''The Twilight Zone'', in which he played a Venusian living under cover on Earth in "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", and a supporting role as actor Fletcher Huff in the short-lived 1970s CBS series, ''The Betty White Show''. Biography and career He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Harry Nathan Ofner, a commercial salesman for the leather industry, and Leona (Frank) Ofner, a naturalized citizen of German origin, who went by the nickname Lonnie. He grew up and was educated in St. Louis, then moved to Los Angeles after he graduated from college in 1935. Interested in acting, he got a small part in an independently produced Grade-B Western called ''Black Aces'' in 1937, but his sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dehner
John Dehner (DAY-ner) (born John Dehner Forkum, also credited Dehner Forkum; November 23, 1915February 4, 1992) was an American stage, radio, film, and television actor. From the late 1930s to the late 1980s, he amassed a long list of performance credits, often in roles as sophisticated con men, shady authority figures, and other smooth-talking villains. His credits just in feature films, televised series, and in made-for-TV movies number almost 300 productions. Dehner worked extensively as an actor radio during the latter half of that medium's "golden age", accumulating hundreds of additional credits on nationally broadcast series. His most notable starring role was as Paladin on the radio version of the television Western ''Have Gun – Will Travel'', which aired for 106 episodes on CBS from 1958 to 1960. He continued to work as a voice actor in film, such as narrating the film ''The Hallelujah Trail''. Earlier in his career, Dehner also worked briefly for Walt Disney Studios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard McNear
Howard Terbell McNear (January 27, 1905 – January 3, 1969) was an American stage, screen, and radio character actor. McNear is best remembered as the original voice of Doc Adams in the radio version of ''Gunsmoke'' and as Floyd Lawson, the barber on ''The Andy Griffith Show'' (1961–1967). Career McNear studied at the Oatman School of Theater and later joined a stock company in San Diego. McNear also worked in radio from the late 1930s, including in the 1937–1940 radio serial '' Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police'' as ace operator Clint Barlow. McNear could be effective in such authoritative roles, but he gravitated more toward character roles, often comic. He enlisted as a private in the United States Army Air Corps on November 17, 1942, during World War II. He created the role of Doc Charles Adams in CBS Radio's '' Gunsmoke'' (1952–1961). McNear was under contract to CBS for many years and was featured in many of the network's radio and TV programs. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parley Baer
Parley Edward Baer (August 5, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original "Chester" in the radio version of ''Gunsmoke'', and as the Mayor of Mayberry (Roy Stoner) in ''The Andy Griffith Show''. Early life, family and education Parley Edward Baer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied drama at the University of Utah. Career Baer had a circus background, but he began his radio career at Utah station KSL. Circus Early in his career, Baer was a circus ringmaster and publicist. He left those roles for military service in World War II. In the 1950s, he had a job training wild animals at Jungleland USA in Thousand Oaks, California. Still later, he served as a docent at the Los Angeles Zoo. Military Baer was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, attaining the rank of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Harris
Stacy Harris (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was an American actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is sometimes found misspelled Stacey Harris. Early years Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937. That injury prevented him from re-enlisting when World War II began, but he served with the American Field Service as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider. Before becoming an actor, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter, boxer, sailor, and artist. Theatre Harris acted in five Broadway plays and received a New York Critics Award. Radio Harris was known for his role as agent Jim Taylor on ABC Radio's '' This is Your FBI''. In 1946, Jerry Devine, that program's producer-director, told newspaper columnist Jack O'Brian: "Stacy has just the sort of voice I need for the quiet authority of the special agent on my show. On top of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Dobkin
Lawrence Dobkin (September 16, 1919 – October 28, 2002) was an American television director, character actor and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. Dobkin was a prolific performer during the Golden Age of Radio. He narrated the western '' Broken Arrow'' (1950). His film performances include ''Never Fear'' (1949), ''Sweet Smell of Success'' (1957) and ''North by Northwest'' (1959). Before the closing credits of each episode of the landmark ABC television network series '' Naked City'' (1958–1963), he said, "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." Early years Dobkin was born in New York City. Radio Dobkin understudied on Broadway. When he returned to network radio he was one of five actors who played the detective Ellery Queen in ''The Adventures of Ellery Queen''. In ''The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe'' (1950–1951), Dobkin played detective Archie Goodwin opposite Sydney Greenstreet's Nero Wolfe. While playi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Perrin
Victor Herbert Perrin (April 26, 1916 – July 4, 1989)Cox, Jim (2007). ''Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s--A Biographical Dictionary.'' Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., p. 228: . was an American radio, film, and television actor, perhaps best remembered for providing the "Control Voice" in the original version of the television series '' The Outer Limits'' (1963–1965). He was also a radio scriptwriter as well as a narrator in feature films and for special entertainment and educational projects, such as the original Spaceship Earth and Universe of Energy rides at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Early years Perrin was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, the elder of two sons of Kathryn (née Mittlesteadt) and Milton A. Perrin, who was a traveling salesman. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Bartell
Harry Alfred Bartell (November 29, 1913 – February 26, 2004)Aaker, Everett (2006). ''Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . p. 34. was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the end of network radio drama in the 1960s. Early years Bartell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Houston, where he got his start at station KRPC. He graduated from Rice University in 1933 and attended Harvard Business School. In 1942, he joined the staff of KWKW radio as an announcer. Radio Upon moving to California, Bartell became a favorite of producer/director Norman MacDonnell, performing frequently on ''Escape'' (notably as Ronald Dawson in ''The Second Class Passenger'' and Peyton Farquar in Ambrose Bierce's ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''), and was a leading member of the ''Gunsmoke'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Gregg
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond; Virginia Beach is the most-populous city, and Fairfax County is the most-populous political subdivision. The Commonwealth's population was over 8.65million, with 36% of them living in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The area's history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607, the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World. Virginia's state nickname, the Old Dominion, is a reference to this status. Slave labor and land acquired from displaced native tribes fueled the growing p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
