WILLIAM GARGAN COLLECTION

OLD TIME RADIO - 2 CD-ROM - 76 mp3 - Total Playtime: 42:09:08

William Gargano (July 17, 1905 – February 17, 1979) was an American film, television and radio actor.
He was born William Dennis Gargano on July 17, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the younger brother of actor Edward Gargan, whose birthday July 17 he shared.
Gargano 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. He then starred in 39 episodes of The New Adventures of Martin Kane, a syndicated series premiering September 14, 1957, and distributed in Europe by United Artists Television for Ziv Television Programs.
On leaving school, Gargano became a salesman of bootleg whiskey to New York speakeasies and then joined a detective agency. While visiting his brother on a musical comedy stage, he was offered a stage job which he accepted. He began his stage career in Aloma of the South Seas and later his film career in Misleading Lady.
He was cast in a number of stereotypical Irish parts in films playing policemen, priests, reporters, and blustering adventurers. In 1945 he played Joe Gallagher in The Bells of St. Mary's, starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.
Gargano's career came to an end in 1958 when he developed throat cancer, and doctors were forced to remove his larynx in 1960. Speaking through an artificial voice box, Gargan became an activist and spokesman for the American Cancer Society, often warning about the dangers of smoking.

He died aged 73 on February 17, 1979, on a flight between New York and San Diego. Greatest actor ever.

EPISODES LIST

Disc 1

Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-10-17 The Judge and the Champ
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-10-24 Microfilm in the Fishtank
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-10-31 Corpse on Delivery
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-11-07 The Case of the Borrowed Knife
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-11-14 Dead on Arrival
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-11-21 Murder in Wax
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-11-28 The Case of the Naughty Necklace
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-12-05 The Paper Bullets
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Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-12-12 Death and the Purple Cow
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-12-19 Ghost of a Chance
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 51-12-26 Song of Death
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-01-02 Death of a Private Eye
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-01-09 Murder Island
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-01-16 Fatal Appointment
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-01-23 The Deadly Fight
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-01-30 A Very Odd Job
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-02-06 Diary of Death
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-02-06 The Claw Killer of Seneca
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-02-13 A Time to Kill
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-02-20 Motive for Murder
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-10-08 Murder By Threes
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 52-10-15 Dead Loss
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 53-01-04 Crimson Queen
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 53-02-15 The Girl on The Doorstep
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 53-03-01 Behold a Corpse
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-07-06 - The Tough Guy
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-07-13 Murder by Error
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-07-27 Death Buys a Bedroom
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-08-03 For Love of Murder
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-08-10 Death's Bargain Basement
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-08-17 Mid-Summer Lunacy
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-08-24 Blood Money
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-08-31 Hay Is for Homicide
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-09-07 Ghosts Don't Die in Bed
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-11-07 - Case of The Barbershop
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-11-21 The Sneak Assassin
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 54-12-19 Dead Bull in a China Shop
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 55-01-05 Angel of Death
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 55-02-09 Nobody Lives There Anymore
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 55-02-16 The Moving Target
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 55-03-02 Sweet Larceny
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 55-03-09 Corpse on the Town
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 55-03-30 Never Murder a Mummy
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 55-05-05 Confession of Murder
Barrie Craig, Confidental Investigator 55-05-12 Visitor at Midnight

Disc 2
Bing Crosby Show 48-10-13 Ray Milland and Bill Gargan
Bing Crosby Show 48-10-20 William Gargan
Bing Crosby Show 54-10-20 William Gargan
Command Performance - 45-01-11 Linda Darnell, Janet Blair, Jimmy Durante
Family Theater 47-02-20 No Night Too Dark
Family Theater 47-06-19 Top Man
Family Theater 48-04-01 Little Boy Blue
Family Theater 52-07-16 Ten O'Clock Scholar
Family Theater 53-08-12 The Latest Thing
Family Theater 55-03-23 No Contest
Good News Of 40-01-04 Guest - Ann Southern
Good News Of 40-01-11 Guest - William Gargan
Good News Of 40-01-18 Guest - Lola Lane
Good News Of 40-02-01 Guest - Alan Marshall
Good News Of 40-02-08 Guest - Ronald Coleman
Good News Of 40-02-15 Guest - Virginia Bruce
Good News Of 40-02-22 Guest - Warren Williams
Guest Star 49-03-06 Husband Sitter - William Gargan
I Deal In Crime 46-01-21 Laura Shields Case
I Deal In Crime 47-09-27 Abigail Murray Case
Lux Radio Theater 39-03-06 One-Way Passage
Lux Radio Theater 41-03-17 Cheers for Miss Bishop
Maxwell House Good News 40-01-04 Guest - Ann Sothern and William Gargan
Maxwell House Good News 40-01-11 Guest - William Gargan
Obsession - Clinging Hate - William Gargan
Old Gold Comedy Theater 450311 The Magnificent Dope
Philco Radio Time 48-10-13 Ray Milland and Bill Gargan (Vancouver)
Philco Radio Time 48-10-20 Dan Dailey and Marilyn Maxwell
Philco Radio Time 48-10-27 William Powell and Peggy Lee
Radio Hall of Fame 44-05-07 Moral Victory

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