Episode 464 – Dear John (The Judge, Frontier Gentleman, Have Gun - Will Travel, & The Whistler)

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We're saluting John Dehner - the Disney animator and award-winning radio news editor who became one of the radio era's best actors and a great big and small screen character actor from the 50s to the 80s. He found his biggest radio fame in a pair of westerns - <em>Frontier Gentleman</em> and <em>Have Gun - Will Travel</em> - but he was heard all over the dial in everything from <em>Escape</em> to <em>Family Theatre</em>. We'll hear him in the audition recording for <em>The Judge</em>, where he plays a retired judge and unofficial police consultant (recorded March 13, 1952). Then, he's English reporter J.B. Kendall in "Kendall for the Defense" from <em>Frontier Gentleman</em> (originally aired on CBS on April 13, 1958) and the man called Paladin in "The Wager" from <em>Have Gun - Will Travel</em> (originally aired on CBS on July 26, 1959). Finally, Dehner plays an embezzler who may turn to murder in "Rebound" from <em>The Whistler</em> (originally aired on CBS on June 11, 1950).</span></p>