Arthur q bryan biography of christopher

He is best remembered for his longtime recurring role as well-spoken, wisecracking Dr. Arthur Q. He sang in a number of churches in the New York City area and had plans to be a professional singer. In , he began working as an insurance clerk at the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Bryan's work in animation did not go unnoticed by radio producers.

Although his first forays into that medium were accompanied by instructions that he use the Fudd voice, Bryan soon came to the attention of Don Quinn and Phil Leslie , the production and writing team responsible for Fibber McGee and Molly and their supporting characters, two of whom spun off into their radio hits, The Great Gildersleeve and Beulah.

Bryan, best known as the voice

His work on the series in Bryan's natural voice so impressed Quinn and Leslie, that Bryan was added to the cast of their main show, Fibber McGee and Molly , in In the mids, he had the role of Duke on Forever Ernest. The episode also starred James Stewart reprising his film role as "George Bailey". Bryan first became involved with the film industry when he moved to Hollywood in to become a scenario writer for Paramount Pictures.

Bryan's live-action work remained largely in uncredited cameo roles, usually employing the Fudd persona, or minor supporting roles in B-movies like the apoplectic newspaper editor in the Bela Lugosi thriller The Devil Bat. In the Charley Chase short South of the Boudoir , he speaks in his normal voice, but at one point slips into his Fudd voice while coming on to Chase's wife.

He appeared frequently in live-action short-subjects for Warner Bros. Bryan continued as the Fibber show's secondary male lead, even after Thompson and for a time Gordon returned to the show, and he stayed as Dr. Gamble all the way through its final incarnation on the NBC Monitor series in , as well as playing Floyd on "Gildersleeve" through its conclusion in Bryan's final original work as Fudd came in the Warner Bros.

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