RAYMOND BURR COLLECTION OLD TIME RADIO - 3 CD - 124 mp3 - Total Playtime: 61:09:57 Burr was born Raymond William Stacey Burr in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, to William Johnston Burr (1889–1985), an Irish hardware salesman, and his wife, Minerva (née Smith, 1892–1974), a concert pianist and music teacher, who was of English and Scottish descent. After his parents divorced, Burr moved to Vallejo, California with his mother and younger siblings, Geraldine and James Edmond. He attended a military academy for a while and graduated from Berkeley High School. In later years Burr freely invented stories of a happy childhood. He told the Modesto Bee in 1986, for example, that when he was twelve and a half years old, his mother sent him to New Mexico for a year to work as a ranch hand. He was already his full adult height and rather large and "had fallen in with a group of college-aged kids who didn't realize how young Raymond was, and they let him tag along with them in activities and situations far too sophisticated for him to handle." He developed a passion for growing things and, while still a teenager, joined the Civilian Conservation Corps for a year. Throughout his teenage years he had some acting work, making his stage debut at age 12 with a Vancouver stock company. Burr may have served in the Coast Guard, but never in the United States Navy as he and his publicists later claimed. Nor was he seriously wounded in the stomach during the Battle of Okinawa in the latter stages of World War II. Other invented biographical details include years of college education at a variety of institutions, world travel, an acting tour of the United Kingdom, and success in high school athletics. Such claims were accepted as fact by the press during his lifetime and by his first biographer. In 1937 Burr began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse. In 1941, he landed his first Broadway role in Crazy with the Heat. He became a contract player at RKO studio, playing a film noir villain in Raw Deal (1948). Burr appeared in over 60 movies between 1946 and 1957. In 1976 Richard Schickel cited his performance in Pitfall (1948) as a prototype of film noir in contrast with the appealing television characters for which Burr later became famous. He received favorable notice for his role as an aggressive prosecutor in A Place in the Sun (1951), co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Shelly Winters. Perhaps his best-known film role of the period was that of a suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window (1954), starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. He played the part of reporter, Steve Martin, in Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956). Burr emerged as a prolific television character actor in the early to mid-1950s. He made his television debut on the April 24, 1952 episode "The Tiger" of Gruen Playhouse on the DuMont TV network. (At about the same time, Burr guest-starred on an episode of The Amazing Mr. Malone on ABC.) This part led to other roles in such programs as Dragnet, Chesterfield Sound Off Time, Four Star Playhouse, Mr. Mrs. North, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, The Ford Television Theatre, and Lux Video Theatre. During this time Burr's distinctive voice also could be heard on network radio, appearing alongside Jack Webb in the short-lived Pat Novak for Hire on ABC radio, as well as in early episodes of NBC's Dragnet. He also made guest appearances on other Los Angeles-based shows, such as Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and landed a starring role in CBS's Fort Laramie (1956), which depicted 19th-century life at old Fort Laramie. One year later, Burr became a television star as Perry Mason. EPISODES LIST CBS Radio Workshop 560525 The Little Prince CBS Radio Workshop 570421 The Son of Man CBS Radio Workshop 570630 The Battle of Gettysburg CBS Radio Workshop 570714 The Silent Witness Dr Kildare 50-10-20 Eddie Jenkins And The Arsonist Dragnet 49-06-17 Production 3 aka The Werewolf Dragnet 49-06-24 Production 4 aka Homicide aka Quick Trigger Gun Men Dragnet 49-07-07 The Helen Corday Murder Dragnet 49-07-14 Red Light Bandit Dragnet 49-07-21 Attempted City Hall Bombing Dragnet 49-07-28 Missing Persons - Juanita Lasky Dragnet 49-08-04 Benny Trounsel - Narcotics Dragnet 49-08-11 Production 10 aka Homicide aka Maniac Murderer aka Mad Killer At Large Dragnet 49-08-18 Production 11 aka Sixteen Jewel Thieves Dragnet 49-09-01 Auto Burglaries - Myra the Redhead Dragnet 49-09-10 Sullivan Kidnapping Dragnet 49-09-17 James Vickers - Cop Killing - Tunnel Chase Dragnet 49-09-24 Brick-Bat Slayer Dragnet 49-10-01 Truck Hi-jackers - Tom Laval Dragnet 49-11-24 Mrs. Rinard Albert Barry - Mother-In-Law Murder Dragnet 50-08-24 The Big Chance Escape 510718 Macao Family Theater 49-08-24 Robert of Sicily Family Theater 49-11-23 The Courtship of Miles Standish Family Theater 50-01-25 Lodging for the Night Family Theater 50-03-08 The Prince and the Pauper Family Theater 50-06-28 Sir Lancelot of the Lake Family Theater 50-07-26 Julius Caesar Family Theater 50-11-15 Peter Zenger Family Theater 50-12-06 Robert of Sicily Fort Laramie 55-07-25 ep00 Audition Fort Laramie 56-01-22 ep01 Playing Indian Fort Laramie 56-01-29 ep02 The Boatwrights Story Fort Laramie 56-02-05 ep03 Squaw Man Fort Laramie 56-02-12 ep04 The Woman at Horse Creek Fort Laramie 56-02-19 ep05 Boredom Fort Laramie 56-02-26 ep06 Captains Widow Fort Laramie 56-03-04 ep07 Shavetail Fort Laramie 56-03-11 ep08 Hattie Pelfrey Fort Laramie 56-03-18 ep09 The Beasley Girls Fort Laramie 56-03-25 ep10 The Coward Fort Laramie 56-04-01 ep11 Lost Child Fort Laramie 56-04-15 ep12 Stage Coach Stop Fort Laramie 56-04-22 ep13 The New Recruit Fort Laramie 56-04-29 ep14 Capture Fort Laramie 56-05-06 ep15 Never the Twain Fort Laramie 56-05-13 ep16 War Correspondents Fort Laramie 56-05-20 ep17 Gold Fort Laramie 56-05-27 ep18 Sergeants Baby Fort Laramie 56-06-03 ep19 Dont Kick My Horse Fort Laramie 56-06-10 ep20 Young Trooper Fort Laramie 56-06-17 ep21 Winter Soldier Fort Laramie 56-06-24 ep22 The Loving Cup Fort Laramie 56-07-01 ep23 Troopers Widow Fort Laramie 56-07-08 ep24 Talented Recruits Fort Laramie 56-07-15 ep25 Old Enemy Fort Laramie 56-07-22 ep26 Spotted Tails Return Fort Laramie 56-07-29 ep27 Nature Boy Fort Laramie 56-08-05 ep28 The Massacre Fort Laramie 56-08-12 ep29 The Assembly Line Fort Laramie 56-08-19 ep30 Goodbye Willa Fort Laramie 56-08-26 ep31 The Chaplain Fort Laramie 56-09-02 ep32 The Return of Hattie Pelfrey Fort Laramie 56-09-09 ep33 The Buffalo Hunters Fort Laramie 56-09-16 ep34 The Payroll Fort Laramie 56-09-23 ep35 The Woman at Horse Creek Fort Laramie 56-09-30 ep36 A Small Beginning Fort Laramie 56-10-07 ep37 Galvanized Yankee Fort Laramie 56-10-14 ep38 Still Waters Fort Laramie 56-10-21 ep39 Indian Scout Fort Laramie 56-10-28 ep40 Army Wife Lineup 501116 The Candy Store Murder aka Candy Store Killing Lineup 501221 The Holsteder Case Hilston Brothers Robbery No Bank Robbed in Six Years Bank HoldUp Lineup 510111 The Mad Bomber akaGeorge Hunter And The Time Bomb Lewis Black not same as 510626 Lineup 520610 Lobdells PoodleCut Tomato Case akaHit Run Accident Wife Killer Lineup 520729 The Charles Crocked Clobbering Case akaThe Stanley Farmer Murder Man Beaten To Death In Alley Lineup 521112 The Buggered Bunco Boys (aka-Grieving Families Cheated) Lux Radio Theater 50-10-16 House of Strangers Michael Shayne 48-12-18 Case of the Eager Victim Night Beat 520717 Taste of Peaches Pat Novak for Hire 49-02-20 Jack Of Clubs Pat Novak for Hire 49-02-27 Marcia Halpern Pat Novak for Hire 49-03-20 Rory Malone Pat Novak for Hire 49-03-27 Joe Candono Pat Novak for Hire 49-04-02 Father Lahey-Joe Feldman Pat Novak for Hire 49-04-23 Rita Malloy Pat Novak for Hire 49-05-14 Geranium Plant Pat Novak for Hire 49-05-21 Envelope To John St John Pat Novak for Hire 49-06-18 Joe Denine Story Presenting Charles Boyer 50-06-13 The Adventure of the Queen of Sheba (audition) Presenting Charles Boyer 50-09-21 The Adventure of Painting 137 Railroad Hour 52-05-26 My Maryland Railroad Hour 53-08-10 Trilby Richard Diamond 52 04 04 The Enigma of Big Ed Richard Diamond 53 08 23 The Hollywood Story Rocky Fortune 54-03-02 The Doctor's Dilemma Romance 53-09-26 The Treadmill Screen Directors Playhouse 49-01-23 The Exile Screen Directors Playhouse 49-05-15 Hold Back the Dawn Screen Directors Playhouse 49-10-17 Pitfall Screen Directors Playhouse 50-03-24 Chicago Deadline Screen Directors Playhouse 50-04-07 The Fighting OFlynn Screen Directors Playhouse 50-12-28 Alias Nick Beal Screen Directors Playhouse 51-01-04 Prince of Foxes Suspense 481104 Death Sentence Suspense 570310 The Paralta Map Suspense 570728 Murder on Mike Suspense 571027 The Country of the Blind Suspense 581012 The Treasure Chest of Don Jose Suspense 581221 Out for Christmas Suspense 590607 The Pit and the Pendulum The Silent Men 51-10-28 Case of the Rubber Gloves The Whistler 52-02-24 A Matter of Time The Whistler 52-03-09 Breakaway The Whistler 52-09-07 The Secret of Chalk Point Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 500411 The Dead First Helpers Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 500509 The Harold Trandem Matter Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 500720 The Henry J Unger Matter Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 500810 The Hartford Alliance Matter Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 501007 The Richard Splain Matter Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 501028 The Joan Sebastian Matter Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 501111 The Adam Kegg Matter Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 530130 The Kay Bellamy Matter Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 561230 The Squared Circle Matter Be Aware: MP3 CD WILL NOT PLAY IN REGULAR CD PLAYERS. Mp3 CD will play in mp3 CD players and car mp3 CD players. You can, also, upload the mp3 files to your ipod or itunes. Will, also, play in your computer, some regular DVD players and all Blu Ray Players. PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTE This item is the public domain and was created between January 1, 1923 and December 31, 1971 This item is in the public domain due to failure to comply with required formalities After a careful search of the Library of Congress and the United States Trademark and Patent Office, it has been determined that the programs listed for sale here are in the Public Domain. They are being offered with the understanding that no valid or active copyright, trademark, and/or patent exist for them. These recordings are sold for private home listening and use only. No broadcast rights are stated, implied, or given. I assume no responsibility for unauthorized use of these programs. They are listed in accordance with current policies concerning selling Public Domain materials. 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