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An American broadcaster and actor, born in Race Luck, Wisconsin, USA, on May 28, 1899 and died in Newport Beach, California on September 5, 1982. He was nominated for a Prime Hour Emmy in 1951 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his television works. Some of Richard's most important works include Boston Blackie and the Law (1946), The Big Wheel (1949), Meet Boston Blackie (1941), and Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949). Born into a family of farmers, he developed a hobby of reciting poetry, dancing and singing, and he worked in the vaudeville theater at the age of 13. He traveled on tour in Europe, presenting performances in a circus and worked with a performance band in Australia and worked as a guard for cars on Broadway. In the late twenties, he worked with the Big Big band as a drummer and participated in the big musical show on Broadway, The George White's Scandal and signed a contract with RKO Films to provide small roles. He soon became one of the busy actors working in drama and comedy in Hollywood. He was known as Inspector Faraday in the mysterious comedy film, Boston Blackie. He appeared in comedies with Abbott, Costello, Laurel, and Hardy, and he appeared in 11 short films with Columbia during the 1940s. He was the captain of the USO team (United Service Organization for the Assistance of Soldiers and Their Families) and after the war ended, he joined Paramount and made his last film, I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951) with George Sanders and Susan Hayward, and he joined television to work as a press reporter and a sports broadcaster to present mini-car racing and snowboard racing in the Los Angeles area during the fifties and sixties. He presented wrestling matches in an exciting and attractive style, during which time he presented two works For television in 1956 and 1959. He retired and died in 1982 at the age of 83.
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