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An American broadcaster and actor, born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, United States. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 1951 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his television work. His 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 vaudeville at the age of 13. He traveled on tour in Europe, performing with a circus, and worked with a band in Australia as a drummer. He signed a contract with RKO Films to play small roles. He became known as Inspector Farraday in the Boston Blackie mystery-comedies. He appeared in comedies with Abbott and Costello, and Laurel and Hardy, and he appeared in 11 short films with Columbia during the 1940s.
He was an emcee for the USO during WWII, and after the war ended, he joined Paramount and made the film I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951), and he joined television to work as an announcer and a sports broadcaster during the fifties and sixties. He appeared in a few works in the 1960s and 1970s, after which he retired. He died in Newport Beach, California on September 5, 1982.
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