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Al Pearce

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Pearce, Al (birth name was Albert W. Pearce) Born in San Francisco, California 7/25/1900 (so0me say 1898); died 6/3/1961 of complications following surgery for an ulcer in Newport Beach, California. Brother of Calvin Pearce.

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Host and star of radio programs including The Happy-Go-Lucky Hour on KFRC-San Francisco (1928- 1932); Al Pearce And His Gang on NBC and NBC-BLUE (1934-1937); Watch The Fun Go By on CBS (1937-1938); NBC (1938-1939); CBS (1939-1942); NBC (1942); Fun Valley on NBC-BLUE (1944); Here Comes Elmer on CBS (1944-1945); ABC (1945-1947). The Al Pearce Show was on CBS-TV (1952).

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Screen debut playing himself in Hit Parade of 1937 (1937). Played his Elmer Blurt character in Here Comes Elmer (1943). Last movie was playing Otis Jones in The Main Street Kid (1948).

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Pearce was one of radio's first comedians. His character (Elmer Blurt) was known to the radio comunity as a bumbling door-to-door self-conscious salesman. Blurt would approach the door of his next sale, then you would hear, knock-knock, knock-knock-knock, knock-knock, then Blurt would say, "Nobody home, I hope, I hope, I hope!"

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