Elliott Lewis's Radio Career In Chronological Order
1937 Mr Presto the Magician in the wonderful thanksgiving-to-Christmas story Cinnamon Bear.
1937 - 1938 Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police.
1939 - 1942 Knickerbocker Playhouse a dramatic anthology.
1941 This Is Judy James, drama situation comedy in which Lewis took the part of Mr Peterson , the next-door neighbor in love with Judy’s mother.
1942 Plays For Americans topical wartime dramas in which Lewis was a support actor
!942 Burns and Allen.
1942 - 1955 The Whistler crime melodrama. Appeared in many support roles along with his wife Cathy Lewis.
1939 - 1952 Character roles in I Love A Mystery the other famous Carleton E Morse creation.
1940 - 1944 Various character roles in The Hermit’s Cave.
1942 Father of a typical radio teenager called Judy Graves played by Shirley Temple in the situation comedy Junior Miss.
1946 Played the lead part of Hawk Durango in the western adventureHawk Larabee.
1946 - 1948 The Fitch Bandwagon.He played the part of Frankie Remley the wisecracking guitar player in Phil Harris’s orchestra.
1946 - 1954 Phil Harris Alice Faye Show He continued the part of Frankie Remley. Near the end of the show he began using his real name, Frank mysteriously becaame Elliott.
1947 - 1954 Various support roles in Escape.
1944 Adventures By Morse as lead player, Captain Friday.
1945 Arch Oboler’s Plays – support actor.
1946 The Amazing Nero Wolfe, role of Archie Goodwin Wolfe’s secretary.
1946 - 1951 Lewis was a regular in The Adventures of Sam Spade.
1947 - 1948 The Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen, adventure drama. Played the lead role of Master of the Scarlet Queen, Philip Carney.
1948 (March) Case Book Of Gregory Hood.
1948 The Clock
1949 - 1954 Producer-director of Broadway Is My Beat.
1949 - 1952 Director of Pursuit a suspense-detective drama.
1950 - Producer Director of The Lineup a police drama which took you behind the scenes of police HQ.
1950 - 1954 From August 31 1950 producer–director of Suspense
1951 Director of Mr Aladdin detective melodrama starring Paul Frees.
1953 CBS Radio Workshop – Director
1953 - 1954 On Stage – Producer-director and also main character along with his first wife Cathy Lewis. (Coming to RUSC soon)
1953 Creator-producer director of Crime Classics a series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time a historical crime drama with underlying comedy.
1973 Director of The Zero Hour – Adventure Drama series produced in an attempt to revive the dying form of radio entertainment since the end of the Golden Age of Radio in 1962.
1979 - 1981 Producer-director of Sears Radio Theater dramatic anthology in a further attempt to revive radio as a serious entertainment media.
Elliott Lewis divorced his first wife Cathy Lewis in 1958 and married Mary Jane Croft in 1960. They were married for 30 years until his death on May 20th 1990 age 73 of a heart attack.
Happy listening my friends,
