Famous Jury Trials
Famous Jury Trials is a dramatized court series that began on radio before later television and film versions.
Famous Jury Trials is a dramatized court show that first appeared on radio, followed by television, and then in the movies. The series ran on radio from 1936 through 1949, then on television from 1949 through 1952, and finally in a movie in 1971. On television, it aired on the DuMont Television Network. Episodes re-enacted historic actual court cases.
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Art Millet
Announcer
HHugh James
Announcer
JJerry Lawrence
Announcer
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Peter Grant
Announcer
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RRoger Krupp
Announcer
Ron Rawson
Announcer
Abby Lewis
Cast
Alan Hewitt
Cast
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Alfred Swenson
Cast
Alice Frost
Cast
Alice Reinheart
Cast
Amzie Strickland
Cast
Bernard Lenrow
Cast
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Betty Worth
Cast
Bill Johnstone
Cast
BBill Lipton
Cast
Dwight Weist
Cast
EEd Latimer
Cast
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Edwin 'Ed' Jerome
Cast
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Eileen Palmer
Cast
Elspeth Eric
Cast
FFrank Lovejoy
Cast
Frank Readick
Cast
JJean King
Cast
JJim Boles
Cast
Joe DeSantis
Cast
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John Paul King
Cast
Leon Janney
Cast
Lew Valentine
Cast
Mandel Kramer
Cast
Norman Rose
Cast
RRay Barrett
Cast
Raymond Edward Johnson
Cast
RRichard Keith
Cast
RRuth Yorke
Cast
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SShirling Oliver
Cast
Sidney Slon
Cast
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Sydney Mason
Cast
Ted de Corsia
Cast
Tom Tully
Cast
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True Boardman
Cast
William Keene
Cast
BBob Nolan
Director
CCarl Eastman
Director
CCharles Powers
Director
CClark Andrews
Director
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Lawrence Cecil
Director
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AWylie Adams
Director
Ann Thomas
Cast
Byron Kane
Cast
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DeWitt McBride
reporter-narrator
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Don Becker
(ca 1936)
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HDonald Foster
Sound Effects (Mutual)
Harry Lang
Cast
Jay Jostyn
The Judge
MMaurice Franklin
Cast
Roger DeKoven
reporter-narrator
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Ameel Fisher
Writer
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Bill Rafael
Writer
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Daisy Amoury
Writer
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