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Ken Roberts

Cast, Narrator, Announcer

180 episodes in 10 shows · 1932–1950

Ken Roberts got his start announcing at WMCA in New York and WLTH in Brooklyn. He went on to announce The Shadow, including the 1937–38 Mutual season with a young Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston, and he posed the questions to make-believe contestants on the comedy quiz It Pays to Be Ignorant. In 1941 he hosted his own quiz show, Quick As a Flash, on Mutual, and he later became the original announcer for TV's Candid Camera.

Sources: Ken Roberts (announcer), Wikipedia

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The Shadow108 · Announcer

1937 2

1938 21

1939 24

1940 22

1941 17

1942 14

1943 5

1944 3

You Are There35 · Cast, Announcer
It Pays to Be Ignorant15 · Announcer
Casey, Crime Photographer9 · Announcer
Easy Aces5 · Announcer
Columbia Workshop2 · Announcer
Grand Central Station2 · Narrator, Announcer
The Fred Allen Show2 · Announcer
Boston Blackie1 · Announcer
Father Knows Best1 · Cast

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