Night Beat "Football Player and the Syndicate"

FRANK LOVEJOY

 

Night Beat from June 12, 1950 - (episode 19). Football Player and the Syndicate stars Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone with guest William Conrad as Tom Paxton.

William Conrad

FAVORITE STORY "From the Earth to the Moon"

WILLIAM CONRAD

JEFF COREY

 

Episode 21 aired November 5, 1946 and stars William Conrad and Jeff Corey. Jules Verne's famous science fiction novel of 1865 is dramatized. Stars: William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series Cannon. A radio writer and actor. Jeff Corey (born Arthur Zwerling (August 10, 1914 – August 16, 2002) was an American radio, stage and screen actor who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s.

WILLIAM CONRAD aka Julius Krelboyne

 

WILLIAM CONRAD aka Julius Krelboyne

OTHER CREDITS...

William Conrad was the voice of Escape (1947–54), a high-adventure radio series. He played Warchek, a menacing policeman, in Johnny Modero: Pier 23 (Mutual 1947), a detective series starring Jack Webb, and was in the cast of Webb's crime drama Pete Kelly's Blues (NBC 1951). He played newspaper editor Walter Burns opposite Dick Powell's reporter Hildy Johnson in the ABC radio drama The Front Page (1948). He was Dave the Dude in the syndicated drama anthology series The Damon Runyon Theater (1948); Lt. Dundy in the NBC radio series The Adventures of Sam Spade (1949–50); boss to government special agent Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in The Silent Men (NBC 1951); and a New Orleans bartender in the NBC adventure drama Jason and the Golden Fleece (1952–53). Most prominently, Conrad's deep, resonant voice was heard in the role of Marshal Matt Dillon on CBS Radio's gritty Western series Gunsmoke (1952–1961). The producers originally rejected him for the part because of his ubiquitous presence on so many radio dramas and the familiarity of his voice, but his impressive audition could not be dismissed, and he became the obvious choice for the role. Conrad voiced Dillon for the show's nine-year run, and he wrote the June 1953 episode "Sundown". When Gunsmoke was adapted for television in 1955, executives at CBS did not cast Conrad or his radio costars despite a campaign to get them to change their minds. His other credits include Suspense, Lux Radio Theater, and Fibber McGee and Molly. In "The Wax Works", a 1956 episode of Suspense, Conrad performed every part. Because of his CBS Radio contract, he sometimes appeared on shows on other networks under the pseudonym "Julius Krelboyne".

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