American commercial, film, radio, television, theatre actor and radio director
Harry Holcombe
Born Harry John Holcombe
(1906-11-11 ) November 11, 1906Died September 15, 1987(1987-09-15) (aged 80) Occupation(s) Commercial, film, radio, television, theatre actor and radio director Spouse
Betty Nielsen Holcombe
(died. 1982)
[ 1] Children 2[ 1]
Harry John Holcombe (November 11, 1906 – September 15, 1987)[ 2] [ 3] Country Time commercials,[ 4] [ 5] western television series Bonanza [ 6]
Life and career
Holcombe was born in Malta, Ohio .[ 6] Chicago, Illinois , directing radio programs including Benny Goodman 's program Camel Caravan [ 5] poetry reader for the radio program Moon River WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio .[ 1] California , where he began his film and television career,[ 1] The Purple V [ 6]
Holcombe guest-starred in numerous television programs including The Andy Griffith Show Harbor Command 77 Sunset Strip Perry Mason The Farmer's Daughter That Girl The Law and Mr. Jones Leave It to Beaver Here's Lucy Bewitched The Fortune Cookie Birdman of Alcatraz [ 7] King Kong vs. Godzilla [ 4] The Unsinkable Molly Brown [ 7] Kisses for My President [ 7] When the Boys Meet the Girls Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round Barefoot in the Park [ 6]
Death
Holcombe died in September 1987 at his son's home in Valencia, California , at the age of 80.[ 5]
References
^ a b c d "Betty Nielsen Holcombe" . The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio . October 13, 1982. p. 21. Retrieved October 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .^ Cox, Jim (2001). The Great Radio Audience Participation Shows: Seventeen Programs from the 1940s and 1950s ISBN 9780786410712 Google Books . ^ "Holcombe Signed For Film" . Montreal Gazette Montreal, Quebec , Canada . May 29, 1961. p. 10. Retrieved October 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .^ a b Ryfle, Steve (April 1998). Japan's Favorite Mon-star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G" ISBN 9781550223484 ^ a b c "H. Holcombe; Radio, Stage, Movie Actor" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved October 31, 2021 .^ a b c d Cox, Jim (2007). Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s: A Biographical Dictionary 140– 141. ISBN 9780786427802 Google Books . ^ a b c "Harry Holcombe, actor" . The Daily Item Sunbury, Pennsylvania . September 18, 1987. p. 8. Retrieved October 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
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