Spoiler : Pearson, Ted (birth name was Theodore Anders Pearson) Born in Arlington, Nebraska 11/3/1902; died 10/5/1961. After graduating from high school in Arlington, Nebraska, Pearson moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota where he worked with a road paving gang while modeling for art classes. He attended MacPhail School of Music, then the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. During a visit home in Nebraska, he met a radio executive who offered him a job working at radio station WJKS-Gary, Indiana where he spent 12 hours a day on the air announcing, interviewing people, singing and reading monologues. After an NBC talent scout discovered Pearson, he moved to Chicago to announce for NBC RED and BLUE programs, later moving to New York and Hollywood. Screen debut playing Harnet in Navy Blue and Gold (1937). Last movie was playing a colonel in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

Spoiler : Radio announcer for NBC RED and BLUE radio programs including The Armour Hour (1927-1931); The Halsey Stuart Program (1928-1932); Maytag Minstrel Show (1929); The Studebaker Champions (1929-1931); The Empire Builders (1929-1931); Conoco Tourist Adventures (1930-1932); Florsheim Frolics (1930-1933); The Paul Whiteman Painters (1931-1932); Good News of 1938 (1937-late 1930s); The King Cole Trio (1946-1948); The Cavalcade of America (1947-1948). Pearson was also the announcer for Young Doctor Malone on NBC and CBS (ca. 1939-early 1940s); We, the Abbotts on NBC and CBS (1940-1942); The Adventures of the Thin Man on NBC, Mutual and ABC (ca. late 1940s, early 1950s); The CBS Radio Workshop (1956-1957).