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And in the film noir Dark City, he co-starred with Harry Morgan, his future partner on the second Dragnet series. He played a war veteran in Marlon Brando's first feature, The Men. In Sunset Boulevard, he is the fiancé of William Holden's love interest Nancy Olson (his performance is very animated and jovial, unlike his later deadpan style). In 1950, Webb appeared in three films that would become cult classics. Webb provided all of the voices on One Out of Seven, often vigorously attacking racial prejudice. Malone, Pete Kelly's Blues, and One Out of Seven. Webb's radio shows included Johnny Madero, Pier 23, Jeff Regan, Investigator, Murder and Mr.

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Her voice was hot and sticky-like a furnace full of marshmallows.' Early in 1949, Webb served as the main antagonist of Alan Ladd's protagonist character Dan Holliday in 'The Better Man' episode of the radio series 'Box 13', which aired on January 2, 1949. Pat Novak was notable for writing that imitated the hard-boiled style of such writers as Raymond Chandler, with lines such as: 'She drifted into the room like 98 pounds of warm smoke. īy 1949, he had abandoned comedy for drama, and starred in Pat Novak, for Hire, a radio show originating from KFRC about a man who worked as an unlicensed private detective.

Prior to that, he had a one-man program, One Out of Seven, on KGO in which he dramatized a news story from the previous week. The Jack Webb Show was a half-hour comedy that had a limited run on ABC radio in 1946. Career Acting įollowing his discharge, he moved to San Francisco, where a wartime shortage of announcers led to a temporary appointment to his own radio show on ABC's KGO Radio. He later received a hardship discharge because he was the primary financial support for both his mother and grandmother. John's University, Minnesota, where he studied art.ĭuring World War II, Webb enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, but he 'washed out' of flight training. He wrote to Belmont's student body in the 1938 edition of its yearbook, Campanile, 'You who showed me the magnificent warmth of friendship which I know, and you know, I will carry with me forever.' Webb attended St. Webb was elected student body president of his high school.

He then attended Belmont High School, near downtown Los Angeles. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Webb lived in the parish of Our Lady of Loretto Church and attended Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School in Echo Park, where he served as an altar boy. His father left the home before Webb was born, and Webb never knew him. He grew up in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. Webb was born in Santa Monica, California, on April 2, 1920, son of Samuel Chester Webb and Margaret (née Smith) Webb. A staunch conservative, Webb often used his works to voice his opinions on political and social issues, evident in the speeches he would embed into Dragnet 's scripts. Many of his works focused on law enforcement and emergency services in the Los Angeles area, most prominently the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), which directly supported the production of Dragnet and Adam-12. Webb's production style aimed for significant levels of detail and accuracy. Webb continued to make television series, and although many of them were less successful and short-lived, he wished to rekindle his prior successes, and had plans to return to acting in a Dragnet revival before he died. Throughout the 1960s, Webb worked in both acting and television production, creating Adam-12 in 1968, and in 1970, Webb retired from acting to focus on producing, creating Emergency! in 1972. Webb started his career in the 1940s as a radio personality, starring in several radio shows and dramas-including Dragnet, which he created in 1949-before entering television in the 1950s, creating the television adaptation of Dragnet for NBC as well as other series. He was also the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited. John Randolph Webb (April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, most famous for his role as Joe Friday in the Dragnet franchise, which he created.

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