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William Gargan, born William Dennis Gargan July 17, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA and died February 17, 1979 aged 73 on a flight between New York and San Diego.
He was an American motion picture, television and radio actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions, including two appearances as detective Ellery Queen, but was best known for his role as Detective Martin Kane in the 1949-51 radio-television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. He also appeared as a private detective in the NBC radio show Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, which ran from 1951 to 1955.
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06 May 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content.
29 March 1946
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
28 July 1933
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
24 June 1933
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
12 January 1945
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
26 December 1937
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event.
01 March 1940
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
01 December 1936
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
15 April 1939
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
02 June 1936
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends.
09 September 1938
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
06 December 1930
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show.
15 August 1937
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
17 September 1937
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance.
12 March 1938
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
03 February 1933
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
13 July 1935
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
07 April 1939
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
11 February 1943
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police.
29 January 1942
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
01 December 1939
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
16 May 1937
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
11 January 1942
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
23 March 1935
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
30 July 1942
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
23 July 1946
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs.
11 May 1934
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
23 July 1936
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
06 April 1940
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
01 December 1935
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
16 March 1946
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.
06 October 1933
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
02 June 1938
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
22 September 1936
A tough Irishman tries to help a logging company owner on Vancouver Island who is being sabotaged by a nearby competitor.
09 October 1942
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
17 March 1939
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
30 June 1939
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play.
20 July 1944
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
07 May 1942
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
26 September 1937
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
07 May 1948
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
31 March 1956
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
19 October 1940
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
06 August 1938
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
01 November 1943
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
18 March 1939
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
31 October 1941
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
27 November 1941
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.
04 October 1934
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
24 October 1941
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
01 April 1945
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
27 July 1935
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
21 February 1941
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love.
11 July 1940
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda.
06 May 1946
In a remote, mountainous section of Russian-occupied Germany, there is an elaborate post-war Nazi underground dedicated to the achievement of Hitler's dreams of world supremacy.
01 March 1943
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
30 October 1942
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
27 December 1945
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
15 September 1934
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
09 October 1936
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
