Himan Brown acting on CBS Radio Mystery Theater

[Executive]

There's no mistaking Himan Brown's voice in cameo roles on his own show, but he didn't do a "Hitchcock" in any of the stories until 1979. After several tiny roles that year, his biggest part (for a few minutes in Act 3) was as police Lieutenant Hench, who questions Teri Keane in "Who Has Seen the Wind?"

Also in 1979 on CBSRMT: the debut of a police siren sound effect in several episodes. :)

[Melina]

Hi began his career in radio as an "actor" of sorts, reading Yiddish stories...and later when he packaged the Goldbergs (quite a story) ..and in the beginning he played, I believe, the father, Jake, during the first year.
You guys probably know the exact info more than I do because I have more of the personal stories than the exact facts...But I am hoping to get alot of these stories on podcast to post as I get the page together ...and as Hi lets me...
he definitley used himself in RMT as a necessity if he needed another voice or someone didnt show up.

[Kurt Wayne]

I got a kick out of his brief cameo as the sleazy pickup artist in "Kitty".

[Executive]

I didn't like Himan's snobbish "I'm a rich guy born with a silver spoon in my mouth"-style voice when I first heard it last year listening to him introduce Mystery Theater episodes that he remastered in 1998. But I must say it's grown on me, and I actually like him in those small roles in a number of episodes produced during those last 3 years of the show. Brown played a doctor in one episode, a cop in another, and a 66 year-old bartender in still another.

Prior to 1979 though, his only vocal work on the show that I know of was in his announcing special contests or making congratulatory remarks on the CBSRMT's success. When it began in 1974 host E.G. Marshall didn't yet say "The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents....." , it was Himan Brown who did.