John Warren Hull, known professionally as Warren Hull, was an American actor, singer and television personality active from the 1930s through the 1960s.
18 Facts About Warren Hull
2.
Warren Hull was one of the most popular serial actors in the action-adventure field.
3.
Warren Hull then attended New York University with the intention of pursuing a career in business.
4.
Warren Hull later decided to pursue a career in music and enrolled at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied voice.
5.
Warren Hull was the master of ceremonies for the first Your Hit Parade radio program and worked as an announcer for The Beatrice Lillie Show.
6.
Warren Hull made his screen debut in 1934 for Educational Pictures, a short-subject studio.
7.
Warren Hull co-starred opposite singer Sylvia Froos in the Young Romance series of musical comedies filmed in New York; Hull often joined Froos in song.
8.
In 1935 Warren Hull was signed to a contract by Warner Bros.
9.
When his Warners contract expired, Warren Hull had no trouble finding work at other studios.
10.
Warren Hull teamed with Patricia Ellis, one of his leading ladies at Warners, for the Republic Pictures musical Rhythm in the Clouds.
11.
Warren Hull played romantic leads in a string of features for Monogram Pictures.
12.
Warren Hull was signed for Columbia's second serial production, The Spider's Web, based on a popular magazine character.
13.
Warren Hull played three parts: criminologist Richard Wentworth, his masked-and-caped alter ego The Spider, and, in a second masquerade, lowlife mobster Blinky McQuade.
14.
The personable Warren Hull brought a breezy sense of humor to his serial roles; he is probably the only serial hero who ever laughs on screen.
15.
In 1947, he hosted The Warren Hull Show, for CBS radio.
16.
Warren Hull continued as host when the show was adapted for television in 1951.
17.
Warren Hull was the emcee of Spin to Win, only the second game show created by the team of Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.
18.
On September 14,1974, Warren Hull died of congestive heart failure at Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, at the age of 71.