Film and television actor and director Clu Gulager is best noted for his
Co-starring as William H. Bonney (Billy The Kid) in the NBC-TV series
The Tall Man (1960-1962) and for his role in the NBC series The
Virginian (1962-1971). Gulager served in the U.S. Marine Corps
before beginning his acting career.
Stars Ben Alexander and Jack Webb in the radio studio prior to a broadcast
of Dragnet in 1953. The NBC radio crime drama series premiered on June 3, 1949 and ended on February 26, 1957.
Jack Webb
"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" debuted on CBS Radio as a action packed half-hour detective series on Friday, February 11, 1949. It featured Charles Russell in the
title role as freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. Through the following
years, several actors played the part – including Edmond O’Brien, John Lund,
and Bob Bailey. It aired until September 30, 1962 with a one year hiatus from
1954-1955. The show was sponsored by Wrigley’s Gum.
Charles Russell
Edmond O’Brien
Bob Bailey
Mandel Kramer played Johnny Dollar in the
final broadcast.
Consumer advocate and former film and TV actress Betty Furness displaying
a Westinghouse refrigerator during a commercial break in 1956
In 1948 Betty Furness was performing in the CBS television series Studio One which
was broadcast live. She was asked to fill in for a actor to promote Westinghouse products during commercial breaks and impressed the company so much with
her ease and professional delivery that she was offered a contract to promote
their products and subsequently became closely associated with them.
Elizabeth “Betty” Mary Furness
Furness preparing for a Westinghouse commercial in 1952
Christopher Lloyd, High School yearbook
Christopher Allen Lloyd played Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the
Future trilogy (1985 – 1990), He rose to fame in the 1980s as Jim
Ignatowski in the television series Taxi (ABC, 1978 – 1982 & NBC,
(1982 – 1983).
Christopher Lloyd as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975. His first motion picture role.
Lloyd in Taxi
Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future
