Barton Yarborough

William Barton Yarborough was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama, primarily on the NBC Radio Network. He is famous for his roles in the Carlton E. Morse productions I Love a Mystery, where he played Doc Long, and One Mans Family, where he spent nineteen years portraying Clifford Barbour. In addition, Yarborough spent three years as Sgt. Ben Romero on Jack Webbs Dragnet.

He was born in Goldthwaite, Texas. As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s. He attended college at the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Southern California, where in 1925 he became a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He worked in New York, and was a member of the Eva Le Gallienne Civic Repertoire in New York City. Yarboroughs NBC radio debut was in 1930, broadcasting from San Francisco.

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