Here’s terrific news for your morning. Tacoma born John Wilder who has written and/or produced nearly 400 hours of prime time television drama on network and cable and also received the Writer’s Guild Award for Best Long Form Teleplay and Best Episodic Drama and Emmy nominations for Best Dramatic Series, will be joining us for the REPS SHOWCASE. This will be John’s first appearance at the REPS SHOWCASE and an actor with more radio credits to his name would be hard to find. As a child actor and then known as Johnny McGovern, John was one of the busiest child actors in the radio business. Here’s a list of some of his work:
The Jack Benny Show as Joey, The Great Gildersleeve as Craig Bullard, The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Show as Schuyler Van Snoot, The Abbott and Costello Kid Show as the youngest emcee in radio, The Jimmy Durante Show, Red Ryder as Little Beaver, Date With Judy as Randolph, and Jump Jump of Holiday House), as well as leading and featured roles on other major network broadcasts, including 21 appearances on Lux Radio Theatre, and multiple appearances on Academy Award Playhouse, Stars Over Hollywood, The Hallmark Hall of Fame, Hollywood Star Playhouse, Hollywood Star Theatre, The Ford Theatre, The Screen Guild Theatre, Screen Director’s Playhouse, Family Theatre, Favorite Story, The Bakers Theatre of Stars, On Stage, Stars In The Air, The NBC University Theatre, Rexall Theatre, Command Performance, Broadway Is My Beat, Cavalcade of America, California Caravan, The CBS Radio Workshop, Hollywood Story, The Bob Hope Show, The Red Skelton Show, The Dennis Day Show, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Our Miss Brooks, Doorway To Life, My Favorite Husband (Lucille Ball), The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Amos and Andy, The Halls of Ivy, NBC Presents, Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch, The Roy Rogers Show, Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid, My Friend Irma, The Clyde Beatty Show, The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show, Dr. Christian, The Stories of Dr. Kildare, The Harold Peary Show, Rogers of The Gazette, Suspense, Fibber McGee and Molly.
Whew! and we didn’t even list them all. Recently, John and Larry Gassman had a chance to sit down with John Wilder and talk about his days in radio.
