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Truman Bradley also did ROMA wine commercials on Suspense and on TV he was host on Science Fiction Theatre. I wouldn't have recognized him from this picture...no gray hair.
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Truman Bradley! Bradley may be best known for his work as the announcer on The Red Skelton Show. (He served a similar function on The Frank Sinatra Show and Screen Guild Players.)
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Born Sheldon, Missouri, February 8, 1905
Died Los Angeles (Woodland Hills), California, July 28, 1974
Age 69
Truman grew up in Sheldon, Missouri, and studied law upon graduation from high school. He wanted to work on radio and moved to Chicago, where he became a top announcer at station WBBM. Henry Ford personally hired Truman to be announcer on his Ford Sunday Evening Hour and flew to Detroit every weekend it was on. He later moved to California and got a job at station KERN in Bakersfield as newscaster. Soon after that he moved to Los Angeles to work as a freelance announcer. He later found additional work as a movie actor as well as television presenter.
Here are some of the other shows for which Truman is remembered: Swift Review, Then and Now, Princess Pat, Fred Allen, America Calling, Burns and Allen, Red Skelton, Dinah Shore, Mail Call, Command Performance, Tommy Dorsey, Screen Guild, Frank Sinatra, Suspense, Bob Hope, Rudy Vallee, Truth or Consequences (as a contestant), Don Ameche, Blondie (AFRS version), Family Hour of Stars, Amos 'n' Andy, and I Was a Communist for the FBI.
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