Everett Sloane

Everett H. Sloane was an American character actor who worked in radio, theatre, films and television. He was also a songwriter and theatre director.

Everett H. Sloane was born in Manhattan October 1, 1909, to Nathaniel I. Sloane and Rose Sloane. At age seven he played Puck in a play at Manhattans Public School 46 and decided to become an actor. He completed two years at the University of Pennsylvania, and left in 1927 to join Jasper Deeters Hedgerow Theatre repertory company. He made his New York stage debut in 1928. Sloane took a Wall Street job as a stockbrokers runner, but when his salary was cut in half after the stock market crash of 1929 he began to supplement his income with radio work. He became the sleuths assistant on WORs Impossible Detective Mysteries, played the title characters sidekick, Denny, in Bulldog Drummond and went on to perform in thousands of radio programs.

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