16 Facts About Shelby Storck

Shelby William Storck was an American newscaster, actor, writer, journalist, public relations specialist, and motion picture and television producer-director.

Shelby Storck was a radio actor on The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen and other programs, and appeared in the feature films The Delinquents and The Cool and the Crazy.

Descendant of General Joseph O Shelby, Shelby Storck was born in Kansas City, Missouri and in 1937 graduated from the University of Kansas City, now the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he had been active in student government, theatrical performances, and as an editor of the campus newspaper.

On returning to Kansas City, Shelby Storck rejoined WDAF and again resumed newscaster duties but soon moved on to become campaign manager of Kansas City attorney Jerome Walsh's unsuccessful run for congressional office.

Shelby Storck was assistant director of education and organization for the Consumers Cooperative Association, now known as Farmland Industries, from 1947 to 1949 and was public relations director and assistant manager of the North Kansas City Development Company in 1949 and 1950.

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Shelby Storck was a semi-professional actor in local radio, television, civic theater, and in films made in the Kansas City area.

Shelby Storck later established a Barbara Storck Memorial award for poetry at the University of Kansas City in her memory.

Shortly after his wife's death, Shelby Storck returned to broadcasting in 1951 and joined the staff of Kansas City's first television station, WDAF-TV, becoming the region's first television weather presenter.

Shelby Storck continued in radio and television work through the 1950s, working between Kansas City and St Louis, making documentary films which he often narrated as well as produced.

Shelby Storck frequently acted in industrial and educational films produced by the Calvin Company of Kansas City and by the Centron Corporation of Lawrence, Kansas.

From 1955 to 1966 Shelby Storck was associated with Charles Guggenheim of St Louis as a director and narrator of documentary and commercial movies produced by Guggenheim.

Shelby Storck was best known for making half-hour campaign biographies for politicians, mostly under the direction of media consultant Joe Napolitan, including successful films for Milton Shapp, Winthrop Rockefeller, and Mike Gravel.

In 1968 Shelby Storck wrote, produced, and directed a half-hour promotional documentary on Hubert Humphrey called What Manner of Man, which was hugely instrumental in Humphrey's sudden surge in the polls towards the end of his unsuccessful race against Richard Nixon for President of the United States.

Shelby Storck had been diagnosed with heart disease and was under a doctor's care for several months.

Shelby Storck died in his sleep, apparently after a heart attack, at home in St Louis in April 1969.

Today, Shelby Storck is primarily known for the political films he produced in the 1960s, as well as for his role as a hard-nosed, wise-to-the-world police detective in the 1958 Kansas City-produced feature-length film The Cool and the Crazy.