Versatile professional John Dehner had an extended career (1940-1989) using countless roles in every media. He appeared in more than 250 films and in thousands of radio and tv shows. He started his career as an animator for the Walt Disney Studios but his love for performing found him just work at KFWB in LA like a news editor and disk jockey. Dehner possessed a deep, resonant voice and soon landed supporting tasks in radio dramas, like the Whistler, Gunsmoke, and Philip Marlowe. His big break about Aged Time Radio’s Greatest Superstars: John Dehner Collection 1 came when he was ensemble as Paladin in the air version of Have Gun-Will Travel. He also portrayed J.B. Kendall, the business lead function on radio’s Frontier Gentleman. Dehner became perhaps one of the most sought-after actors during The Golden Age of Radio and proved helpful most times and nights on several radio shows. When television beckoned, he produced a seamless transition appearing in displays like Gunsmoke, The Adventures of Package Carson, Playhouse 90, The Zane Grey Theater, Perry Mason, The Rifleman, The Crazy Wild Western world, Hogan’s Heroes, THE TRUE McCoys, The Texan, three episodes of The Twilight Zone and many more. He also acquired a very effective movie career, best-remembered as Sheriff Pat Garrett in The Left-Handed Gun reverse Paul Newman as Billy a child. We’ve carefully chosen 12 of John Dehner’s finest radio performances for this thrilling collection and we wish you love it!

Have got Gun-Will Travel 8-28-60 “For the Wild birds”

Have Gun-Will Travel 9-11-60 “Deadline”

Have got Gun-Will Travel 9-18-60 “Nellie Watson’s Guy”

Frontier Gentleman 3-2-58 “The Shed Mine”

Frontier Gentleman 8-10-58 “A Wagon Full of Cats”

Frontier Gentleman 8-17-58 “The Fastest Gun That Hardly ever Was”

Get away 11-5-50 “Globe Abides Pt. 1”

Get away 11-12-50 “Globe Abides Pt. 2”

Gunsmoke 4-11-53 “Gonif”

The CBS Radio Workshop 4-27-56 “The Record Collectors”

Fort Laramie 3-25-56 “The Coward”

Suspense 3-15-55 “The Game”