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Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre is an American Western anthology television series that was broadcast on CBS from October 5, 1956, until May 18, 1961. [ 1 ] Episodes
In August 1961, Zane Grey Theatre was one of four programs whose episodes were sold to Procter & Gamble to be broadcast in Canada. [15] Zane Grey Theatre ended when Powell moved to NBC's, The Dick Powell Show, CBS replaced it with The New Bob Cummings Show that fall. [16] They reran the show again in the summer of 1962. [5]
The first was in 1905 by Zane Grey's brother, Romer Carl "Reddy" Grey; the second seven years later by a neighbor, to serve as a writing studio and library after the success of Riders of the Purple Sage. Grey and his wife moved to California so he could work on screenplays in 1918, but Lackawaxen and the house remained one of his favorite ...
He is cast on the right side of the law as U.S. Marshall John Welker and hunts down the bank robber that killed his wife in the 1959 episode, "The Law and the Gun" of Zane Grey Theater. This episode also features Michael Ansara, Paul Carr and Don Diamond(as Henry Seidel, the wife killer)
In 1920, spurred by the memory of a visit to Altadena during their honeymoon, author Zane Grey and his wife bought the home. After the Greys bought it they built an addition on the roof for a studio and library. After the Greys' death, their sons owned the property.
The Zane Grey Show was a part of an emphasis on adventure programs at Mutual. [2] The New York Times noted in a preview story that Grey's works until then had "received comparatively little attention from a script-hungry radio industry" and that the series "could be the forerunner of a cycle of Western fare for adult listeners". [3]
Forsythe was cast in a 1957 episode, "Decision at Wilson's Creek", on the CBS anthology series Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre. He played Confederate Lieutenant David Marr who suddenly resigns to return to his wife, only to find that he is scorned by townspeople. [7]