Les Tremayne

About Les Tremayne

Who is it?: Actor, Soundtrack
Birth Day: April 16, 1913
Birth Place:  Balham, London, England, United Kingdom
Died On: 19 December 2003(2003-12-19) (aged 90)\nSanta Monica, California, U.S.
Birth Sign: Taurus
Years active: 1935–93
Spouse(s): Lenore Kingston (?-?) Alice Reinheart (December 11, 1945-?) Joan Tremayne (1980–2003) (his death)

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Les Tremayne was born on April 16, 1913 in  Balham, London, England, United Kingdom, is Actor, Soundtrack. Born in Balham, England, and best known for his voice work on radio, actor Les Tremayne moved to Chicago with his family at the age of 4 (his mother was actress Dolly Tremayne), disguising his British accent while growing up. He began his career with community theater, dancing in vaudeville shows and even served as a barker in amusement parks. Landing his first radio job in 1930, he went on to appear in scores of serials and shows using a variety of voices and accents. In 1936, he earned fame after replacing actor Don Ameche as the leading man on "The First Nighter," a weekly program of radio dramas. In 1943, he finally left the Chicago area and moved to Los Angeles and later to New York. There he starred with Bob Crosby on the "Old Gold Show" before serving in the military service. Back in New York, he starred for a short period of time in both the popular "Thin Man" and "Falcon" mystery series. Divorced from first wife, Lenore Kingston, he co-starred with second wife, Alice Reinhardt, on "The Tremaynes" breakfast talk show. He later appeared on stage with "Heads or Tails" in 1947 and for 18 months on Broadway with "Detective Story" starting in 1949. In the 1950s, he was a character actor in both film and TV dramas. Films included The Racket (1951), the sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds (1953), A Man Called Peter (1955), and North by Northwest (1959). Typically playing shifty execs, errant husbands, and authoritative, no-nonsense professionals in teams of TV dramas, he appeared in numerous shows (Perry Mason (1957), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), 77 Sunset Strip (1958), etc.) along with a few sitcoms for good measure. In the 1960s, he starred in several low-budget horror films.In later years, when speaking to radio enthusiasts, he often exaggerated the number of his radio appearances, claiming that he appeared in more than 30,000 radio broadcasts, which is untrue as well as mathematically impossibleAfter a six-decade-plus career in radio, television, and films, Les was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995. He died of heart failure at the age of 90, survived by his third wife, Joan.
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Biography/Timeline

1931

His radio career began in 1931, and during the 1930s and 1940s, Tremayne was often heard in more than one show per week. Replacing Don Ameche, he starred in The First Nighter Program from 1936 to 1942. He starred in The Adventures of the Thin Man and The Romance of Helen Trent during the 1940s. He also starred in the title role in The Falcon, and played detective Pat Abbott in The Abbott Mysteries in 1946–47. Tremayne was once named one of the three most distinctive voices on American radio. The other two were Bing Crosby and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1945

Tremayne was married four times. He did a morning talk show, The Tremaynes, with his second wife, Alice Reinhart, whom he married December 11, 1945. When Tremayne died in 2003, he was married to his fourth wife, Joan.

1949

Tremayne portrayed Billy Herbert in the television version of One Man's Family (1949-1955) and Inspector Richard Queen in The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen on NBC (1958-1959).

1962

In 1962 Tremayne portrayed the part of C.J. Hasler, a known thief in The Andy Griffith Show episode entitled, "Andy and Barney in the Big City" aired on 26 March 1962. In that show, he played the part of a cunning opportunist who happens onto off-duty Barney Fife who himself believes that he is stalking a jewel thief (Allan Melvin) who is in fact the house detective of the hotel where the story takes place.

1963

In 1963 Tremayne appeared in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of Constant Doyle", along with special guest attorney Bette Davis. He appeared in seven other episodes as various characters, such as Deputy District Attorney Stewart Linn in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Madcap Modiste". In 1961 he played the title role of murder victim Willard Nesbitt in "The Case of the Angry Dead Man." In 1966 he played murderer Harry Lannon in "The Case of the Unwelcome Well." In 1964 he played Ed Pierce in "The Case of the Ruinous Road".

1969

In 1969 he lent his vocal talents to the Walt Kelly/Chuck Jones animated television special "The Pogo Special Birthday Special." Other voice contributors were June Foray and both Chuck Jones and Walt Kelly themselves.

1974

Between 1974 and 1977, Tremayne appeared on the Saturday morning Shazam! television series based on the DC Comics superhero Captain Marvel. In the role of Mentor, Tremayne served as the literal mentor of the programme's protagonist, young Billy Batson.

1987

In 1987, Tremayne appeared on General Hospital as Edward Quartermaine for six months, the oldest character in that series, as a temporary replacement for David Lewis. He played the deceased Victor Lord for one month on One Life to Live during the 1987 Heaven storyline in which daughter Vicki Lord Buchanan (Erika Slezak) was reunited with most every character that had died on the show after a heart attack left her in purgatory.

1995

Tremayne was elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.

2003

In 2003, Tremayne died of heart failure at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California at the age of 90.