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Damon Runyon Theatre was broadcast on radio in the late 1940s. Actor John Brown had the role of Broadway, the narrator who often participated in the stories. Russell Hughes adapted Runyon's stories, including characters such as Harrigan, the Cop, Harry the Horse, Little Miss Marker, and Milk-Ear Willie. [2]
Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley, [2] played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, [3] both "Gillis" and Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, [4] (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show), "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, [5] and "Thorny" the ...
Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr. (December 23, 1936 – June 23, 2023) was an American actor. A figure of the New Hollywood movement, [1] Forrest was best known for his collaborations with director Francis Ford Coppola, playing prominent roles in The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), One from the Heart (1982), and Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988).
Headly's career began on the stage, when she was an originating member of Chicago's renowned Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She went on to marry fellow ensemble member John Malkovich in 1982, though ...
John Brown – Harry Morton #2; Seven episodes (January – June, 1951) [8] His professional credentials included radio appearances such as the Damon Runyon Theater, [9] and Fred Allen's radio show. [10] Brown's career fell to the Hollywood blacklist scare. Afraid of being targeted as Communist sympathizers, studios and producers distanced ...
A favorite with audiences, as well as critics, Lonesome Dove garnered many honors and awards. At the 1989 Emmy Awards, the miniseries had 18 nominations and seven wins, including one for director Simon Wincer. Lonesome Dove also won two Golden Globes, for Best Miniseries and Best Actor in a Miniseries (Robert Duvall).
Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan to Alfred Lee and Elizabeth (Damon) Runyan. [6] His relatives in his birthplace of Manhattan, Kansas , included several newspapermen. [ 7 ] His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855, and his father was the editor of his newspaper in the town.
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. ... she is abducted by an Indian bandit named Blue Duck, a notorious and mercilessly vicious ...