Favorite CBSRMT actor???

[egmarshall]

well..everybody.... got any in particular?...name just one, though!

[vinnyv07]

I like alot of the actors that worked CBSRMT over its long run. But if I had to pick one as my favorite, it would be Fred Gwynne. I liked Gwynne in "My Cousin Vinny" also.

[cottonwood]

Gwynne is Great! I also like Agnes Moorehead a lot. In film she also had a very wide range of characters different from Samantha's mother on Bewitched.

Thanks again also for the swapping, you guys are AWESOME!

Cottonwood

[vinnyv07]

Whenever I hear or think of Agnus Moorehead I think of the TZ episode "The Invaders". She didn't say a word but she was great in the episode. In my opinion, it was one of the very best TZ episodes.

[msvick66]

ok to pick a female and a male?
Fred Gwynne and Teri Keane are probably my favorites. Though I don't believe there is anyone I dislike.

[youmatic]

It would be hard to name just one -or two- because the CBSRMT performers were the creme de la creme of the radio genre. Many had successful careers in radio prior to TV and film work, and even the younger actors were blessed with excellent voices and great talent.

However, I must say that I have a special fondness for Mandel Kramer and Teri Keane. Mandy and Teri played husband and wife crime fighters Chief of Police Bill Marceau and Martha Spears Marceau on the CBS daytime mystery suspense serial The Edge of Night. For nearly 20 years, we watched them solve mysteries and put bad guys behind bars. After Teri was written off the show in 1975, her appearances with Mandy on CBSRMT were the rare opportunities Edge fans had to hear their favorites together again.

[mellotronage]

I've just started re-listening to the earliest episodes, Mason Adams gets my nod so far.... with a name like "Mason Adams", it HAS to be good. LOL

[msvick66]

Originally posted by youmatic:
It would be hard to name just one -or two- because the CBSRMT performers were the creme de la creme of the radio genre. Many had successful careers in radio prior to TV and film work, and even the younger actors were blessed with excellent voices and great talent.

However, I must say that I have a special fondness for Mandel Kramer and Teri Keane. Mandy and Teri played husband and wife crime fighters Chief of Police Bill Marceau and Martha Spears Marceau on the CBS daytime mystery suspense serial The Edge of Night. For nearly 20 years, we watched them solve mysteries and put bad guys behind bars. After Teri was written off the show in 1975, her appearances with Mandy on CBSRMT were the rare opportunities Edge fans had to hear their favorites together again. I watched some Edge of Night with my Mom when I was a child, and I had not realized Teri Keane was a regular. I think I have a visual image of who she is, but my memory is vague. I tried to find a photo of her but could not. I was wondering if you knew of any links that would show her photo. My main memory of Edge of Night would be of Mike and Nancy Karr.
And I remember something in a story line where someone kept pouring blood in the closet and Nancy (I think) would clean it only to have it reappear the next day.
I was just hoping to find pictures of these actors, and also when searching found Elspeth Eric's name in the credits from As the World Turns, as was Keane's.
Thanks!

[Kate]

Without a doubt- Tammy Grimes

[youmatic]

Originally posted by msvick66:
I watched some Edge of Night with my Mom when I was a child, and I had not realized Teri Keane was a regular. I think I have a visual image of who she is, but my memory is vague. I tried to find a photo of her but could not. I was wondering if you knew of any links that would show her photo. My main memory of Edge of Night would be of Mike and Nancy Karr.
And I remember something in a story line where someone kept pouring blood in the closet and Nancy (I think) would clean it only to have it reappear the next day.
I was just hoping to find pictures of these actors, and also when searching found Elspeth Eric's name in the credits from As the World Turns, as was Keane's.
Thanks! [/QB]msvick66, follow these links for pictures of Teri:

http://lavender.fortunecity.com//casino/403/martha.html

http://lavender.fortunecity.com//casino/403/trial.html

You have a good memory. The story you're thinking of involved Teri's character Martha. She and husband Bill moved into an old house in the country. The former occupant Kate Sloane warned them that the home was haunted. Martha and Bill heard strange sounds coming from the walls which dripped blood, but the blood later vanished. Martha opened a closet door and saw the face of a man in the darkness. Eventually they contacted a medium and held a seance to contact the spirit, but it turned out to be something of a more earthly variety. Kate's late husband Frank had supposedly been killed in a police a raid, but he survived and was hiding in a secret room in Bill and Martha's basement. Kate was a nurse and had stolen the blood from the hospital to scare the Marceaus into leaving because Frank had secretly hidden a valuable cache of heroin in the home and needed to scare away the occupants to get it.

[wadenjulie]

The more I listen these days I think I might say Bryna Raeburn. She played every part, no matter what it was, as though she actually was that character. I never heard her do a poor job even one time.

[msvick66]

Thank you so much, youmatic!
She is the person I pictured. That is really the only storyline I recall. I don't know what year that would have been, I will be 41 very soon, but I think I was pretty young. Teri is credited as playing "Lani Bauer" on "Guiding Light", and I was big fan of that show in the late 70's and 80's, but I cannot recall her at all. That would have been later than "Edge"--funny how memory can work, or not work.
I wish they would put "Edge of Night" on dvd. It seems kind of unique in the soap genre.
Thanks again for the link and reply, and I want to say the people on this forum are incredibly nice. Also, some people say I have an unusually good memory, but I think it's something my husband could do without at times!

[msvick66]

Originally posted by Kate:
Without a doubt- Tammy Grimes Hi,
I like Tammy Grimes as well, and I enjoyed her narrations in the later years of the show. You probably already know this, but for some interesting trivia just in case,
did you know she is the mother of Amanda Plummer, who did some voice roles as well?

[MikeH]

I always liked Mason Adams - his voice was so distinct and versitile.

[GillyHollow]

Evie Juster would have to rank right up there for me. One of my favorite episodes is The Golden Girl. You didn't ask, but my favorite writer would be Sam Dann.

Mike from Gilly Hollow

[shadejford]

Jackson Beck is my favorite. I've always liked his work in other radio shows such as Inner Sanctum. In addition, I like the voice work he did for Famous Studios cartoons. Beck could do authoritative,yet caring good guys and menacing, satanic bad guys. His vocal characterization for Bluto in Famous' Popeye cartoons is simultaneously malevolent and amusing. He sometimes used his "Blutoesque" voice whenever he played villians on Inner Sanctum and on,of course, CBS RMT.

[Confusacat]

Ralph Bell would rank pretty high on my list. His voice had an air of agitation that lent an authenticity to many of the roles he played. Robert Dryden gets a nod for coming through so often as the cbsrmt workhorse.

[Executive]

Amanda Plummer is best known for role as a time traveler in 2 episodes of the new Outer Limits series, the second of which (a 92 minute episode) had her character on trial in our present for time manipulation! That was also the last to air on Showtime, before the series was sold into first-run syndication.

But Amanda isn't one of my favorite actors, and I don't even care for her or her mother. I just thought it was interesting what oddball roles she takes because of her unusual looks.

My favorite actor to appear on CBS Radio Mystery Theater? Well, I can't say just yet even though I've heard about 80 episodes so far. I've always liked John Forsythe, but his episode wasn't memorable.

[ 04. January 2007, 11:55 PM: Message edited by: Executive ]

[Executive]

One actor I'm really starting to like from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater is Norman Rose. He sounds so much like Lorne Greene, the first time I heard his voice (when I started listening to this show last fall), I thought it was Lorne. I wonder if Lorne Greene ever listened to this show and what he thought of Norman. We'll never know... smile.gif

[rldavis]

Fred Gwynne

[CardsFan]

Norman Rose. He always strikes me as intelligent and clear sounding. His episodes are some of my favorites.