1. Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film, and television character actor and frequent leading man, who appeared in more than 500 radio plays, 73 films, and over 100 television shows.
22 Facts About Gerald Mohr
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Gerald Mohr was educated in Dwight Preparatory School in Manhattan, where he learned to speak French and German and learned to ride horses and play the piano.
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At Columbia University, where he was on a course to become a doctor, Gerald Mohr was struck with appendicitis and was recovering in a hospital when another patient, a radio broadcaster, realised Gerald Mohr's pleasant baritone voice would be ideal for radio.
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Gerald Mohr was hired by the radio station and became a junior reporter.
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One of Gerald Mohr's early starring roles on radio was as a replacement for Matt Crowley for a brief interval in Jungle Jim in 1938.
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Gerald Mohr starred in The Adventures of Bill Lance, and as Michael Lanyard in The Lone Wolf.
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Gerald Mohr was one of the actors who portrayed Archie Goodwin in The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, frequently starred in The Whistler, and acted in different roles in multiple episodes of Damon Runyon Theater and Frontier Town.
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Gerald Mohr played multiple roles in the anthology series Crime Is My Pastime and was the narrator for the serial Woman from Nowhere.
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Gerald Mohr was so ubiquitous that in 1949, "Radio and Television Life" magazine named him as the Best Male Actor on Radio.
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Gerald Mohr began appearing in films in the late 1930s, playing his first villain role in the 15-part cliffhanger serial Jungle Girl.
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Gerald Mohr had supporting roles in the film classics Gilda and Detective Story, and co-starred in The Magnificent Rogue and The Sniper.
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Gerald Mohr was to have featured comedy, adventure, crime, and drama shows for worldwide distribution.
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Gerald Mohr sang in the 1956 Cheyenne episode "Rendezvous at Red Rock".
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Gerald Mohr essayed Captain Vadim, an Iron Curtain submarine commander, in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "The Lost Bomb".
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Gerald Mohr made guest appearances on such network television comedy shows as The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Jack Benny Program, The Smothers Brothers Show, and The Lucy Show.
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Gerald Mohr had the recurring role of newsman Brad Jackson in My Friend Irma.
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Also in 1966, Gerald Mohr played a seemingly diabolical character named Morbus in the Lost in Space episode "A Visit to Hades".
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Gerald Mohr continued to market his powerful voice, playing Reed Richards in the Fantastic Four cartoon series during 1967 and Green Lantern in the 1968 animated series Aquaman.
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Gerald Mohr flew to Stockholm in September 1968, to star in the pilot of a proposed television series, Private Entrance, featuring Swedish actress Christina Schollin.
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Shortly after the completion of filming, Gerald Mohr died of a heart attack in the evening of November 9,1968, in Sodermalm, Stockholm, aged 54.
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Gerald Mohr is interred in the columbarium of Lidingo Cemetery on the island of Lidingo, Sweden.
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Gerald Mohr's son, Anthony Jeffrey Gerald Mohr, was born in 1947 and later became a Los Angeles Superior Court judge.