Podcasts Arts Performing Arts Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives) Episode 464 Dear John (The Judge, Frontier Gentleman, Have Gun - Will Travel, & The Whistler)

Episode 464 Dear John (The Judge, Frontier Gentleman, Have Gun - Will Travel, & The Whistler)

Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 5 a.m.

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We\'re saluting John Dehner - the Disney animator and award-winning radio news editor who became one of the radio era\'s best actors and a great big and small screen character actor from the 50s to the 80s. He found his biggest radio fame in a pair of westerns - Frontier Gentleman and\\xa0Have Gun - Will Travel - but he was heard all over the dial in everything from\\xa0Escape to\\xa0Family Theatre. We\'ll hear him in the audition recording for\\xa0The Judge, where he plays a retired judge and unofficial police consultant (recorded March 13, 1952). Then, he\'s English reporter J.B. Kendall in "Kendall for the Defense" from\\xa0Frontier Gentleman (originally aired on CBS on April 13, 1958) and the man called Paladin in "The Wager" from\\xa0Have Gun - Will Travel (originally aired on CBS on July 26, 1959). Finally, Dehner plays an embezzler who may turn to murder in "Rebound" from\\xa0The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on June 11, 1950).

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