Bud Collyer
Television Personality
The Adventures of Superman (radio)...Superman was first heard on radio less than two years after the comic book appearance, the character took on an added dimension with Bud Collyer in the title role. During World War II and the post-war years, the juvenile adventure radio... In this article: Superman, Bud Collyer, Stetson Kennedy, The Adventures of Superman, Ku Klux Klan, Kryptonite, Kellogg, Batman, and Action Comics |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Beat the Clock
...is a Goodson-Todman game show which has aired on American television in several versions since 1950. The original show, hosted by Bud Collyer, ran on CBS from 1950-1958 and ABC from 1958-1961. The show was revived in syndication as The...
In this article: Beat the Clock, Jack Narz, Mark Goodson, Gene Wood, Roxanne, GSN, CTV, and Bern Bennett
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Bud Collyer
...To Tell The Truth as himself on October 21, 1958. Two of the panelists voted for him, even though he looked nothing like his brother. Bud Collyer is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich. His daughter, Cynthia, a former television...
In this article: Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth, Superman, Jack Narz, New York City, God, and Mark Goodson
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The New Adventures of Superman (TV series)
...Clark Kent into the Man of Steel), while character movement was often kept at a minimum. Producer Lou Scheimer also recruited Bud Collyer and Joan Alexander, veterans from the Superman radio show and, at least in Collyer's case, the Max...
In this article: The New Adventures of Superman, Clark Kent, Superboy, Filmation Associates, Perry White, Lois Lane, Kid Flash, and Warner Home Video
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Bern Bennett
...years, beginning in 1944, he was a staff announcer at CBS. In the 1940s and 1950s he was closely associated with Bud Collyer, as announcer on three Collyer-hosted game shows: "Winner Take All ", "Beat the Clock", and "To Tell the Truth". In...
In this article: Bern Bennett, To Tell the Truth, Johnny Olson, The Clear Horizon, The Bold and the Beautiful, Match Game, and The Danny Kaye Show
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L.A. Times - TV News | September 24, 2009
Joanne Jordan dies at 88; television spokesmodel in 1950s
...said. On ABC's "Space Patrol," which started out on local television in 1950, she played the evil Queen Mirtha. Jordan was Bud Collyer's assistant on the quiz show "Beat the Clock" in 1956 and 1957, and promoted Hazel Bishop on NBC's...
In this article: Chicken, Tom Hatten, This Is Your Life, KTLA, Los Angeles, Virginia, and Cattle
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Missus Goes a Shopping
...daytime version (which began on November 19, 1947 and ended on November 10, 1948), after which he was briefly replaced by Bud Collyer with a new title of This Is the Missus on November 17. In December, Collyer was replaced by Warren...
In this article: Missus Goes a Shopping, CBS Radio, Warren Hull, John Reed King, Gil Fates, and What's My Line?
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Joan Alexander dies at 94; '40s radio actress played Lois Lane in 'Superman'
Joan Alexander played Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman radio show. With her are announcer Jackson Beck, center, and Bud Collyer as Superman. After an early modeling and stage career, she became a versatile performer on dozens of...
In this article: Joan Alexander, Lois Lane, Superman, The Adventures of Superman, and New York City
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all about jazz | May 23, 2009
OBITUARY: Joan A. Stanton, Radio Voice of Lois Lane, Dies at 94
...in the seventh episode, and though most sources indicate that Mrs. Stanton was not the first actress cast Superman was played by Bud Collyer she landed the part early in the shows tenure and was heard in hundreds of episodes, becoming the...
In this article: Lois Lane, Joan Alexander, Superman, Manhattan, The Adventures of Superman, Audi, and Volkswagen
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washingtonpost.com | May 22, 2009
1940s Radio Actress Joan Alexander Dies at 94
...audience through syndication on the Mutual network. For the next decade, Ms. Alexander was heard playing opposite actor Bud Collyer as Superman, the Man of Steel from planet Krypton who saves Lane from enemy agents during wartime and...
In this article: Joan Alexander, Superman, Lois Lane, New York, and Casablanca
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Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart Dies at 96
...panelists on the popular game show "To Tell the Truth." She appeared on the CBS prime-time program from 1956 to 1967 with host Bud Collyer and fellow panelists such as Polly Bergen, Johnny Carson, Bill Cullen and Don Ameche. The show...
In this article: Kitty Carlisle Hart, Broadway, A Night at the Opera, NEW YORK, George S. Kaufman, MGM, and My Fair Lady
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Bud Collyer (born Clayton Johnson Heermance, Jr., June 18, 1908 – September 8 1969) was an American radio actor/announcer who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars.
Collyer was born in New York City to Clayton Johnson Heermance and Caroline Collyer. He originally sought a career in the law and worked his way through Fordham University by acting in radio. Though he became a law clerk after his graduation, making as much in a month of radio as he did in a year of clerking convinced him to make broadcasting his career, changing his surname and becoming a familiar voice on all three major radio networks by 1940. Among others, his radio roles as Terry and the Pirates (Pat Ryan), Renfrew of the Mounted (the title role), and Abie's Irish Rose (the title role, again), not to mention announcing for a number of radio soap operas---including The Guiding Light and The Goldbergs, which was actually a serial comedy with dramatic overtones. But his best-remembered radio role arrived in early 1940: the title role in The Adventures of Superman on the Mutual Broadcasting System, a role he did in the 1940s radio drama and subsequent Superman cartoons. Collyer supplied the voices of both Superman and his alter ego Clark Kent. A highlight of every Superman episode was the moment when Clark Kent transformed into Superman, an effect which Collyer conveyed by shifting voices while speaking the immortal phrase "This looks like a job for Superman!". (Collyer's voice deepened by an octave while making the transition from one identity to the other.)
In 1966, Collyer reprised his role as the voice of Superman in the Filmation animated children's series The New Adventures of Superman.
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