American actor (1909?1965)
Everett Sloane
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Born
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1909-10-01
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October 1, 1909
New York City, U.S.
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Died
| August 6, 1965
(1965-08-06)
(aged 55)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Resting place
| Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
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Occupation
| Actor
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Years active
| 1927?1965
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Spouse
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Lillian Herman
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m.
1933)
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Children
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Everett H. Sloane
(October 1, 1909 ? August 6, 1965) was an American
character actor
who worked in radio, theatre, films, and television.
Early life
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Sloane was born in
Manhattan
on October 1, 1909, to Nathaniel I. Sloane and Rose (Gerstein) Sloane.
[1]
[2]
Aged seven, he played
Puck
in a production of
William Shakespeare
's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
at Manhattan's Public School 46, and decided to become an actor.
[3]
He completed two years
[4]
at the
University of Pennsylvania
, and left in 1927 to join
Jasper Deeter
's
Hedgerow Theatre
repertory company. He made his New York stage debut in 1928. Sloane took a Wall Street job as a stockbroker's runner, but when his salary was cut in half after the
stock market crash of 1929
, he began to supplement his income with radio work. He became the sleuth's assistant on
WOR
's
Impossible Detective Mysteries
,
[3]
played the
title character
's sidekick, Denny, in
Bulldog Drummond
[5]
and went on to perform in thousands of radio programs.
[6]
Sloane married Lillian (Luba) Herman, a stage and radio actress, on January 4, 1933, in Manhattan.
[3]
[7]
[8]
Career
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Sloane made his
Broadway
debut in 1935, playing Rosetti the agent in
George Abbott
's hit comedy,
Boy Meets Girl
.
[3]
[9]
[10]
Sloane was a member of the repertory company that presented the radio news dramatization series
The March of Time
.
[11]
: 13
"It was like a stock company, whose members were the aristocrats of this relatively new profession of radio acting," wrote fellow actor
Joseph Julian
. At that time Julian had to content himself with being an indistinguishable voice in crowd scenes, envying this "hallowed circle" that included Sloane,
Kenny Delmar
,
Arlene Francis
,
Gary Merrill
,
Agnes Moorehead
,
Jeanette Nolan
,
Paul Stewart
,
Orson Welles
,
Richard Widmark
,
[12]
: 9
Art Carney
,
Ray Collins
,
Pedro de Cordoba
,
Ted de Corsia
,
Juano Hernandez
,
Nancy Kelly
,
John McIntire
,
Jack Smart
, and
Dwight Weist
.
The March of Time
was one of radio's most popular shows.
[11]
: 12?13
Sloane's radio work led him to be hired by Orson Welles to become part of his
Mercury Theatre
. Sloane recorded one program with
The Mercury Theatre on the Air
and became a regular player when the show was picked up by a sponsor and became
The Campbell Playhouse
. Sloane moved with the rest of the company to Los Angeles to continue recording the show after Welles signed his contract with
RKO Pictures
. In 1941, Sloane played Mr. Bernstein in Welles' first movie,
Citizen Kane
. After filming had wrapped, Sloane returned to New York to perform (together with fellow
Kane
stars Ray Collins and Paul Stewart) in Mercury Theatre's last play,
Richard Wright
's
Native Son
, which had 114 performances from March to June 1941.
[13]
Although he did not appear in Welles's second film,
The Magnificent Ambersons
, in 1943, he joined fellow Mercury Theatre alumni Welles,
Joseph Cotten
, Agnes Moorehead, and
Ruth Warrick
in
Journey into Fear
. In 1947, Sloane also starred as villainous lawyer Arthur Bannister in
The Lady from Shanghai
, produced and directed by Welles, who also starred. He played an assassin in
Renaissance
-era Italy opposite Welles'
Cesare Borgia
in
Prince of Foxes
(1949).
Sloane portrayed a doctor for
paraplegic
World War II veterans in 1950's
The Men
with
Marlon Brando
(in his film debut).
Sloane's
Broadway theater
career ended in 1960 with
From A to Z
, a
revue
for which he wrote several songs. In between, he acted in plays such as
Native Son
(1941),
A Bell for Adano
(1944), and
Room Service
(1953), and directed the
melodrama
The Dancer
(1946).
In the 1940s, Sloane was a frequent guest star on the
radio theater
series
Inner Sanctum Mystery
and
The Shadow
(as comic relief Shrevie, the cab driver, among other roles), and was in
The Mysterious Traveler
episode "Survival of the Fittest" with
Kermit Murdock
. Sloane co-starred with
Tony Curtis
and
Piper Laurie
in Universal's 1951
The Prince Who Was a Thief
as a thief who adopts a baby and raises the child as his own. In 1953, he starred as Captain Frank Kennelly in the
CBS
radio crime drama
21st Precinct
. In 1957, he co-starred in the ninth episode of
Suspicion
co-starring
Audie Murphy
and
Jack Warden
. In 1958, he played
Walter Brennan
's role in a remake of
To Have and Have Not
called
The Gun Runners
.
Sloane also worked extensively on television. In 1950, for example, he portrayed
Vincent van Gogh
in
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
's
production "The Life of Vincent Van Gogh".
[14]
Later, in November 1955, he starred in the
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
episode "Our Cook's a Treasure". He appeared on the
NBC
anthology series
The Joseph Cotten Show
,
also known as
On Trial
, in the 1956 episode "Law Is for the Lovers", with co-star
Inger Stevens
.
Sloane performed renditions of passages from
The Great Gatsby
on the
NBC
program devoted to
F. Scott Fitzgerald
in August 1955, part of the "Biography in Sound" series on great American authors.
Sloane appeared in
Walt Disney
's
Zorro
series in 1957?1958 as Andres Felipe Basilio, in the "Man from Spain" episodes. He also appeared in a few episodes of
Bonanza
and an episode in
Rawhide
.
On March 7, 1959, he guest-starred in an episode of NBC's
Cimarron City
titled "The Ratman", appearing alongside the show's star,
John Smith
.
[15]
Later that same year, Sloane appeared as a guest in "Stage Stop", the premiere episode of John Smith's second NBC Western series,
Laramie
.
[16]
He played the vengeful, grieving father Tate Bradley on "Wanted: Dead or Alive" S2 E10 "Reckless" which aired 11/6/1959.
In 1961, Sloane appeared in an episode of
The Asphalt Jungle
. In the early 1960s, he voiced the
title character
of
The Dick Tracy Show
in 130 cartoons. Beginning in 1964, he provided character voices for the animated TV series
Jonny Quest
. He also starred in the
ABC
sci-fi television series
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
, in the episode "Hot Line". He wrote the unused lyrics to "The Fishin' Hole", the theme song for
The Andy Griffith Show
. Sloane guest-starred on the show in 1962, playing Jubal Foster in the episode "The Keeper of the Flame". He starred in both the film and television versions of
Rod Serling
's
Patterns
, and in the first season of
The Twilight Zone
in the episode
"The Fever"
. He guest starred as a San Francisco attorney in the 1962
Perry Mason
episode "The Case of the Poison Pen Pal".
In 1963, he guest-starred on
The Dick Van Dyke Show
in the episode "I'm No Henry Walden" as writer Henry Walden. That same year he starred in the episode "Quint's Trail" on the TV Western Series
Gunsmoke
(S9E7) as Cyrus Neff, a concerned father taking his family to Oregon for a new life after his daughter killed a man for forcibly taking her.
Death
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Sloane committed suicide at age 55 on August 6, 1965; he took an overdose of
barbiturates
because he feared he was going blind
[17]
as a result of
glaucoma
.
[18]
Sloane's cremated remains are interred at
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
in Los Angeles.
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[20]
Film & Television
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Radio appearances
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Year
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Program
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Episode/source
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1948
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The Molle Mystery Theater
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Solo Performance
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References
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Ancestry.com.
1930 United States Federal Census
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
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Ancestry.com,
California, Death Index, 1940?1996
[database online], Provo, Utah. US: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2000. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
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b
c
d
"Everett Sloane Dies on Coast; Veteran Character Actor, 55".
The New York Times
. August 7, 1965.
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Ancestry.com,
1940 United States Federal Census
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
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Dunning, John
(1998).
On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
(Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 123.
ISBN
978-0-19-507678-3
. Retrieved
November 4,
2019
.
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Katz, Ephraim
; Klein, Fred; Nolan, Ronald Dean (1998).
The Film Encyclopedia
. New York City: HarperPerennial. p. 1271.
ISBN
978-0-06-273492-1
.
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Ancestry.com.
New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866?1937
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Retrieved December 30, 2014
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"Studio One Radio Program Biographies ? Everett Sloane"
.
The Digital Deli Too
. Retrieved
December 31,
2014
.
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"Boy Meets Girl"
.
Internet Broadway Database
. Retrieved
December 31,
2014
.
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"Who's Who in the Cast"
.
Playbill
for
Native Son
, April 13, 1941. Archived from
the original
on October 31, 2014
. Retrieved
December 30,
2014
.
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b
Fielding, Raymond (1978).
The March of Time, 1935?1951
. New York City:
Oxford University Press
.
ISBN
0-19-502212-2
.
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Julian, Joseph (1975).
This Was Radio: A Personal Memoir
. New York City:
Viking Press
.
ISBN
978-0-670-70299-2
.
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"Native Son"
.
Internet Broadway Database
. n.d
. Retrieved
September 21,
2016
.
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"Television Shows"
.
The Kansas City Star
. March 26, 1950. p. 15E. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
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"TV-Radio Notes"
.
The Town Talk
. March 6, 1959. p. 22. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
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"Television"
.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
. September 15, 1959. p. 35. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
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"Blindness fear cited in suicide"
.
The Pittsburgh Press
. August 7, 1965. p. 6
. Retrieved
July 27,
2018
– via
Google News
.
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Sculthorpe, Derek (2018).
Edmond O'Brien, Everyman of Film Noir
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 174.
ISBN
978-1-4766-7443-8
.
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"Everett Sloane"
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San Francisco Examiner
. August 9, 1965. p. 55. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
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"Notable Interments & Their Families"
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Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
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Steinhauser, Si (March 5, 1950).
"Look & Listen: Pittsburgh's TV Viewers Miss Variety of Better Programs; Today's Features"
.
The Pittsburgh Press
. p. 66. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
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"Tele Followup Comment"
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Variety
. March 8, 1950. p. 34. Retrieved November 2, 1922.
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"Those Were the Days".
Nostalgia Digest
.
39
(1): 32?41. Winter 2013.
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