Everett H Sloane was an American character actor who worked in radio, theatre, films, and television.
25 Facts About Everett Sloane
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Sloane was born in Manhattan on October 1,1909, to Nathaniel I Sloane and Rose Sloane.
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Everett Sloane completed two years at the University of Pennsylvania, and left in 1927 to join Jasper Deeter's Hedgerow Theatre repertory company.
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Everett Sloane made his New York stage debut in 1928.
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Everett Sloane became the sleuth's assistant on WOR's Impossible Detective Mysteries, played the title character's sidekick, Denny, in Bulldog Drummond and went on to perform in thousands of radio programs.
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Everett Sloane married Lillian Herman, a stage and radio actress, on January 4,1933, in Manhattan.
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Everett Sloane made his Broadway debut in 1935, playing Rosetti the agent in George Abbott's hit comedy, Boy Meets Girl.
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Everett Sloane recorded one program with The Mercury Theatre on the Air and became a regular player when the show was picked up by a sponsor and became The Campbell Playhouse.
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Everett Sloane moved with the rest of the company to Los Angeles to continue recording the show after Welles signed his contract with RKO Pictures.
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In 1941, Everett Sloane played Mr Bernstein in Welles' first movie, Citizen Kane.
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In 1947, Everett Sloane starred as villainous lawyer Arthur Bannister in The Lady from Shanghai, produced and directed by Welles, who starred.
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Everett Sloane played an assassin in Renaissance-era Italy opposite Welles' Cesare Borgia in Prince of Foxes.
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Everett Sloane portrayed a doctor for paraplegic World War II veterans in 1950's The Men with Marlon Brando.
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Everett Sloane co-starred with Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie in Universal's 1951 The Prince Who Was a Thief as a thief who adopts a baby and raises the child as his own.
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Everett Sloane appeared on the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show, known as On Trial, in the 1956 episode "Law Is for the Lovers", with co-star Inger Stevens.
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Everett Sloane appeared in a few episodes of Bonanza and an episode in Rawhide.
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Later that same year, Everett Sloane appeared as a guest in "Stage Stop", the premiere episode of John Smith's second NBC Western series, Laramie.
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In 1961, Everett Sloane appeared in an episode of The Asphalt Jungle.
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Everett Sloane starred in the ABC sci-fi television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the episode "Hot Line".
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Everett Sloane wrote the unused lyrics to "The Fishin' Hole", the theme song for The Andy Griffith Show.
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Everett Sloane guest-starred on the show in 1962, playing Jubal Foster in the episode "The Keeper of the Flame".
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Everett Sloane starred in both the film and television versions of Rod Serling's Patterns, and in the first season of The Twilight Zone in the episode "The Fever".
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Everett Sloane guest starred as a San Francisco attorney in the 1962 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Poison Pen Pal".
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Everett Sloane committed suicide at age 55 on August 6,1965; he took an overdose of barbiturates because he feared he was going blind as a result of glaucoma.
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Everett Sloane's cremated remains are interred at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles.