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Volume 2011 : Issue 82
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
5-25 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 07:47:17 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-25 births/deaths
May 25th births
05-25-1877 - Billy Murray - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-17-1954
singer: "The National Barn Dance"
05-25-1891 - William McNeary - d. 8-26-1934
juvenile radio programming pioneer: "Man in the Moon"
05-25-1892 - Bennett Cerf - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
narrator, panelist: "Biography in Sound"; "What's My Line?"
05-25-1893 - Ernest V. Stoneman - Monorat, VA - d. 6-14-1968
actor: "Irma dn Ezra"
05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Navy is Fit
to Fight"
05-25-1905 - Joseph C. Harsch - Toledo, OH - d. 6-3-1998
news commentator: "A Closer Look at the News"; "Emphasis"
05-25-1907 - Barbara Luddy - Helena, MT - d. 4-1-1979
actor: Carol Evans "Road of Life"; Janet Munson Adams "Woman in White"
05-25-1908 - Linda Watkins - Boston, MA - d. 10-31-1976
actor: Dot "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Big Guy"; "Fat Man"
05-25-1912 - Eddie Maxwell - Detroit. MI - d. 11-21-1999
writer: "The Spike Jones Show"
05-25-1913 - Richard Dimbleby - Richmond onThames, England - d.
12-22-1965
BBC's first-ever radio news reporter: "Down Your Way"; "Twenty
Questions"
05-25-1915 - Betty Ruth Smith - d. 2-1-2008
actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Catherine Monroe
"Backstage Wife"
05-25-1916 - Ginny Simms - San Antonio, TX - d. 4-4-1994
singer: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
05-25-1916 - Kevin O'Morrison - St. Louis, MO
actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"
05-25-1917 - Jimmy Hamilton - Dillon, SC - d. 9-20-1994
jazz clarinetist: "One Night Stand"; "A Date with the Duke"
05-25-1917 - Steve Cochran - Eureka, CA - d. 6-15-1965
actor: "Voice of the Army"; "Unexpected"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
05-25-1918 - Henry Calvin - Dallas, TX - d. 10-6-1975
actor: Joshua Sharpe "Big Guy"
05-25-1919 - Lindsey Nelson - Campbellsville, TN - d. 6-10-1995
sportscaster: "Monitor Preview"; "Biography In Sound"
05-25-1921 - Kitty Kallen - Philadelphia, PA
singer: "Kitty Kallen Calling"; "Harry James and His Music Makers"
05-25-1923 - Eddie Ryan - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "The Charlotte Greenwood Show"; "Let's Pretend"
05-25-1925 - Jeanne Crain - Barstow, CA - d. 12-14-2003
actor: "Screen Guild Players"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
05-25-1926 - Milt Bernhart - Valpariso, IN - d. 1-22-2004
trombonist: "One Night Stand"
05-25-1927 - William "Rosko" Mercer - NYC - d. 8-1-2000
disc jockey, announcer: CBS Network
05-25-1929 - Beverly Sills - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-2-2007
singer: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"; "Uncle Bob's Rainbow House"
05-25-1937 - Mark Shields - Weymouth, MA
journalist; "Look at Today"
05-25-1943 - Leslie Uggams - NYC
singer: "The Peter Lind Hayes Show"
May 25th deaths
01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
01-02-1920 - Richard Lewis - NYC - d. 5-25-2009
director, writer: "The Falcon"; "Suspense"
01-06-1918 - Buddy Weed - Ossining, NY - d. 5-25-1997
musician: "Old Gold Party Time"; "Lanny Ross Show"
01-08-1926 - Chester Feldman - d. 5-25-1997
producer: "The Henry Morgan Show"
01-13-1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-25-2007
actor: "Visual Radio"
01-21-1895 - Muriel 'Molly' Pollock - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-25-1971
concert pianist: "Radio-Keith-Orpheum Hour"; "Sonara Hour"
01-22-1894 - Rosa Ponselle - Meriden, CT - d. 5-25-1981
opera soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"
02-15-1934 - Graham Kennedy - d. 5-25-2005
began career on radio in 1950s as sidekick to Nicky Nicholls
02-21-1901 - Reginald Kirby - England - d. 5-25-1972
writer: "Road to Tokyo"
04-18-1880 - Donald Crisp - Aberfeldy, Scotland - d. 5-25-1974
actor: Jonathan Trimble "Jonathan Trimble, Esquire"
05-01-1922 - Katy Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 5-25-2005
gardening expert: "The Green Thumb"
05-27-1880 - Joseph C. Grew - Boston, MA - d. 5-25-1965
[removed] ambassador to japan: "Report from Tokyo"; "Cavalcade of America"
05-31-1925 - Bob Aro - d. 5-25-1996
disk jockey: WHLB Virginia, Minnesota
07-31-1909 - Roger Krupp - Minnesota - d. 5-25-1987
announcer, newscaster: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Famous Jury Trials"
08-26-1921 - June Whitley - d. 5-25-2006
actor: Margaret Anderson "Father Knows Best"
08-27-1926 - Pat Coombs - London, England - d. 5-25-2002
comedian: Nola "Hello Playmates"
09-08-1914 - Hillary Brooke - Astoria, NY - d. 5-25-1999
actor: "Suspense"
09-11-1909 - Kenneth Banghart - Paramus, NJ - d. 5-25-1980
announcer: "Archie Andews"; "Lora Lawton"; "Robert Shaw Chorale"
10-09-1907 - Henry Hunter - Rahway, NJ - d. 5-25-1985
actor: Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs of Anthony"; Terry Regan
"Attorney at Law"
11-06-1899 - Francis Lederer - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 5-25-2000
actor: Guest Armchair detective: Ellery Queen
Ron
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