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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 101
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
6-18 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
re: Walter Tetley's height [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:49:03 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-18 births/deaths
June 18th births
06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
06-18-1895 - Castro Darazo - San Jose, Costa Rica - d. 12-28-1981
conductor: "Strand Theatre Concert Orchestra" WSMB New Orleans,
Louisiana
06-18-1897 - Alan MacAteer - d. 6-26-1986
actor: Pop, the stage doorman "Backstage Wife"
06-18-1897 - Henry Wadsworth - Maysville, KY - d. 12-5-1974
actor: Alabama Randall "Jane Arden"
06-18-1898 - Carleton Hobbs - Farnborough, England - d. 7-31-1978
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Saturday Night Theatre, Children's Hour"
06-18-1898 - Francis 'Dink' Trout - Beardstown, IL - d. 3-26-1950
actor: Waldo Binney "Life of Riley"; Mr. Anderson "A Day in the Life
of Dennis Day"
06-18-1901 - Jimmy Dale - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-17-1982
pianist, arranger: "Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra"
06-18-1902 - Tom Breneman - Waynesboro, PA - d. 4-28-1948
emcee: "Breakfast at Sardi's/in Hollywood"; "My Secret Ambition"
06-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1965
singer: "Nobody's Children"; "Vicks Open House"; "Campbell Playhouse"
06-18-1904 - Keye Luke - Canton, China - d. 1-12-1991
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Image Minorities"
06-18-1906 - Kay Kyser - Rocky Mt., NC - d. 7-23-1985
bandleader, emcee: (The Old Perfessor) "Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
06-18-1906 - Ray Bauduc - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-8-1988
drummer, composer: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
of America"
06-18-1908 - Elmore Vincent - Amarillo, X - d. 3-27-2000
actor: Phineas Peabody "Lum and Abner"
06-18-1910 - Betty Mandeville - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-14-2001
producer, director: "The FBI in Peace and War"; "Take It or Leave It"
06-18-1910 - Dick Foran - Flemington, NJ - d. 8-10-1979
singer: (The Singing Cowboy) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
06-18-1910 - Ray McKinley - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-7-1995
bandleader, vocalist: Co-leader of the Glen Miller Band
06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - Dayton, TN - d. 4-19-1971
sportscaster: "Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant, Giants
win the pennant"
06-18-1911 - Babe Russin - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-4-1984
tenor sax: "The Ipana Troubadors"
06-18-1913 - Harold Alberghini - d. 7-16-1993
disk jockey and newscaster: Maine
06-18-1913 - Johnnie Neblett - Mississippi - d. 9-15-1946
announcer: "Bargain Counter"; "Tin Pan Alley"
06-18-1913 - Sammy Cahn - NYC - d. 1-15-1993
lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"; "Monitor"
06-18-1914 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-18-1917 - Bill Nimmo - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-22-2011
commercal spokesperson: Bill the Bartender "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
06-18-1917 - Richard Boone - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-10-1981
actor: "Dragnet"
06-18-1917 - Ross Elliott - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-12-1999
actor: "Mercury Theatre"
06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
writer, director: "The Martin and Lewis Show"; "The Quiz Kids"
06-18-1919 - Mel Brandt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-2008
announcer: "Advs. of Frank Merriwell"
06-18-1920 - Ian Carmichael - Hull, Yorkshire, England - d. 2-5-2010
actor: Lord Peter Wimsey "Five Red Herrings" and other Sayers stories
06-18-1922 - Buck Page - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-21-2006
guitarist: (Riders of the Purple Sage) "The Roy Rogers Show"
06-18-1925 - Bob Arthur - Aberdeen, WA - d. 10-1-2008
actor: "The Bob Arthur Show"
06-18-1938 - Don "Sugarcane" Harris - Pasadena, CA - d. 11-27-1999
rock violinist: (Squires) "Stars for Defense"
06-18-1942 - Paul McCartney - Liverpool, England
singer: (The Beatles) "Here We Go Again"
June 18th deaths
01-18-1910 - Arthur Howard - London, England - d. 6-18-1995
actor: "Whack-O!)
02-03-1918 - Gene Baldridge - d. 6-18-1988
disk jockey: WSIP Paintsville, Kentucky
02-07-1949 - Susan Boyd - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 6-18-2004
writer: "Another Day"
03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
actor: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-23-1920 - Alfred Palca - Manhattan, NY - d. 6-18-1998
writer: Wrote for NBC radio while still in college
05-15-1923 - Doris Dowling - Detroit, MI - d. 6-18-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-21-1920 - Bill Barber - Hornell, NY - d. 6-18-2007
jazz tuba player: "Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra"
05-27-1912 - John Cheever - Quincy, MA - d. 6-18-1982
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
06-01-1922 - Joan Caulfield - East Orange, NJ - d. 6-18-1991
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"
06-17-1894 - Harold Levey - NYC - d. 6-18-1967
composer, conductor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
06-19-1928 - Nancy Marchand - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-2000
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "A Private Space"
06-25-1919 - Bill Manhoff - Newark, NJ - d. 6-18-1974
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-16-1906 - Vincent Sherman - Vienna, GA - d. 6-18-2006
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
08-08-1927 - Basil Kirchin - Blackpool, England - d. 6-18-2005
drummer: "Harry Roy and His Orchestra"
08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
actor: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
09-22-1870 - Arthur Pryor - St. Joseph, MO - d. 6-18-1942
bandmaster, trombonist: "Cremo Military Band Program"; "Goodyear
Program"
09-25-1926 - John Ericson - Dusseldorf, Germany - d. 6-18-1972
actor: "Stars On Parade"
10-02-1920 - Rosemarie Brancato - d. 6-18-1994
operatic soprano: "Twin Sisters"
10-30-1926 - Charles Woolf - California - d. 6-18-1994
actor: "Life of Riley"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-31-1915 - Chris Griffin - d. 6-18-2005
trumpet: (Benny Goodman's Orchestra) "Camel Caravan"
11-01-1908 - Felix Knight - Macon, GA - d. 6-18-1998
singer: "Schaefer Revue"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
11-03-1902 - Milt Herth - Kenosha, WI - d. 6-18-1969
organist: (Milt Herth Trio) "Hollywood News"; "Al Pearce"
11-15-1907 - Bill Anson - Chicago, IL - d. 6-18-1983
quizmaster: "The Hirsch Telephone Quiz"
11-21-1907 - Charles Korvin - Postyen, Hungary - d. 6-18-1998
actor: "Voice of the Army"
12-01-1917 - William Tracy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-18-1967
actor: Roosty "Roosty of the AAF"
12-05-1892 - Al Boasberg - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-1937
writer: "Jack Benny Program"
Ron
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:49:11 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: re: Walter Tetley's height
There's a picture in my Tetley book of an older Walter, and his legs are
Definitely long.
I'm going to be putting out a 2nd edition of the Tetley book before
Christmas, by the way,
with a few more tidbits and pictures.
Ben Ohmart
New books on old movies
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