{"id":7940,"date":"2013-03-17T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2013-03-22T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T01:59:32","slug":"radios-essential-people-countdown-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/radios-essential-people-countdown-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio’s Most Essential People Countdown #9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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9) Elliott Lewis<\/p>\n

\"ElliottLewis was often known as Mr. Radio. His career over the air was multi-faceted and has left an\u00a0indelible\u00a0mark. He was a talented dramatic actor. He played Captain Philip Kearney in the well-remembered Voyages of the Scarlet Queen<\/i>. He also took his turn as a radio detective in both The Casebook of Gregory Hood and played Archie Goodwin in Mutual’s Amazing Nero Wolfe,\u00a0<\/i>and then starred with his then-wife Cathy Lewis in\u00a0On Stage\u00a0<\/em>which pushed him into a wide variety of genres.<\/p>\n

He was also a great comic actor, providing fantastic character work on\u00a0Burns and Allen,\u00a0<\/em>in addition to enjoying a memorable recurring role on the Phil Harris and Alice Faye show.<\/p>\n

Yet, with all that said, Lewis did not particularly enjoy acting. He wanted to produce and direct radio. In the 1950s, this happened as he served as producer\/director of\u00a0Broadway is My Beat,\u00a0<\/em>a program that captured the full flavor of New York’s diverse population and where characters often spoke in memorable \u00a0and brooding poetry. He took the helm at\u00a0Suspense\u00a0<\/em>and pushed the show in different directions including adapting\u00a0Othello<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>the Moonstone\u00a0<\/em>in multi-part episode, doing a two part episode that proposed an ending to Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel\u00a0The Mystery of Edwin Drood,\u00a0<\/em>and giving guest spots to comedy actors like Bob Hope and Jack Benny who rarely got dramatic roles.<\/p>\n

While he worked in television, his dedication to radio and his reputation for excellence continued. When Rod Serling experimented with radio drama in 1973 with his\u00a0Zero Hour \u00a0series,\u00a0<\/em>Lewis once again found himself as producer\/director. \u00a0And he also got the call for 1979’s\u00a0Sears Radio Theater.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Elliot Lewis, a talented actor, and great producer of radio dramas well deserves his ranking as one of radio’s ten most essential people.<\/p>\n

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