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Walter Tetley (born Walter Campbell Tetzlaff; [1] June 2, 1915 – September 4, 1975) [2] was an American actor specializing in child impersonation during radio's classic era. . He had regular roles as Leroy Forrester on The Great Gildersleeve and Julius Abbruzzio on The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, as well as continuing as a voice-over artist in animated cartoons, commercials, and spoken-word ...
By 1953, Gildersleeve's love life took center stage over his family and friends. His many love interests were constantly shifting, and women came and went with great frequency. In November 1954, after an extended summer hiatus, Gildersleeve was reformatted as a 15-minute daily sitcom. Only Gildersleeve, Leroy and Birdie remained on a continuing ...
Kraft Foods, who sponsored The Great Gildersleeve and owned the intellectual property, refused to move the program to CBS. Gildersleeve remained on NBC with Willard Waterman, whose voice strongly resembled Peary's and who had known Peary since their radio days in Chicago, replaced Peary in the title role. Waterman refused to appropriate the ...
The Great Gildersleeve is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. Based on the popular NBC radio series The Great Gildersleeve created by Leonard L. Levinson, which ran from 1941 to 1950, this is the first of four films in the Gildersleeve series produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.
He stayed with The Great Gildersleeve from 1950 to 1957 on radio and in a short-lived television series syndicated in 1955. [citation needed] At the same time he was heard as Gildersleeve, Waterman had a recurring role as Mr. Merriweather in the short-lived but respected radio comedy vehicle for Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume, The Halls ...
After extensive speculation over who should play young Gibbs (exempting Sean Harmon, the actor's son, who previously played a younger version of Gibbs on NCIS but returned to Origins solely as an ...
Gildersleeve on Broadway is a 1943 American film starring Harold Peary as his radio character The Great Gildersleeve. [1] It is the third of four Gildersleeve features, others were The Great Gildersleeve (1942), Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943), Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944).
Janet Wright (March 8, 1945 – November 14, 2016) was an English-born Canadian actress and theatre director. [1] She was best known for her role as Emma Leroy on the Canadian sitcom, Corner Gas.