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Bannon, Jim (aka Tom Forsthe) Born in Kansas City, Kansas 4/9/1911; died 7/28/1984 in Ojai, California. Married and divorced to actress Bea Benaderet (1938-?). He was a star athlete at Rockhurst College. Bannon worked at radio stations KMOX-St Louis; WABC-New York; KMBC-Kansas City; moved to California in 1938 working at KEHE and KFI Los Angeles.
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Announcer for radio programs including The Joe Penner Show for NBC-BLUE (1939-1940); The Great Gildersleeve on NBC (1941-1942); Stars Over Hollywood on CBS (1941-1954); The Adventures Of Nero Wolfe on Mutual (1946). Narrator for The Eddie Bracken Show on NBC-Radio and CBS-Radio (1945-1947).
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Screen debut as narrator for Fashion Takes a Holiday (1940), then played Doctor Roger Vance in Soul of a Monster (1944). Bannon was a stuntman for movies durng the 1940s, and played Red Ryder in the movie series of Ride, Ryder Ride! (1949); Roll, Thunder, Roll! (1949); The Fighting Redhead (1949); Cowboy and the Prizefighter (1949). Last movie was playing a policeman in Good Neighbor Sam (1964).
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Television actor from 1950 to the middle 1960s. Mitch Fredericks on the NBC-TV soap, Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 (1954-1955). Uncle Sandy North on The Adventures of Champion for CBS-TV (1955-1956). Sheriff Tom Tynes on the syndicated television series, Casey Jones (1957). Bannon had been retired for many years at the time of his death.
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