DEDICATED TO WALTER TETLEY AND THE OTHER VOICE ACTORS WITH JAY WARD PRODUCTIONS
Hello Kindred Spirit! This morning, after listening to an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, I logged onto the computer to look for information about a couple of cast members. Luckily, I found you terrific site dedicated to Walter Tetley. Often I convince myself that nobody cares about these great near-forgotten voices of the past or […]
THIS AFTERNOON I DECIDED TO SEARCH THE WEB AND SEE IF THERE WAS ANY INFORMATION ON TWO RADIO PERSONALITIES I HAVE COME TO ENJOY OVER THE PAST 6-MONTHS. THE FIRST WAS ELLIOTT LEWIS AND THE SECOND WAS WALTER TETLEY. THESE TWO RADIO ACTORS HAVE HAD ME LAUGHING OUT LOUD EVERY EVENING WHEN I ENTERTAIN MY […]
Hi Brian, I want to thank you for your wonderful Walter Tetley page. You’ve helped clear up a lot of questions I’ve had about Mr. Tetley. I am very familiar with his voice, not so much as Sherman but as Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve radio program. Walter’s contribution to The Great Gildersleeve is a […]
Brian, I captured about 6 minutes of video from “Gildersleeve on Broadway” into a low resolution AVI file…. …I have attached two stills from that video. These scene with Walter Tetley and Harold Peary together suggest that Tetley, though not very tall, was far from being a Munchkin. The third person is Richard LeGrand who […]
Brian, Attached is the preshow Gildersleeve from 2/25/45. Dates on many of these old shows are hard to pin down exactly. There is an outside chance it is actually a week later than that. Although Peary and Tetley are out of character, by force of habit (I guess) they still refer to each other by their […]
Brian, I stumbled on to your web page while looking for a photo of Walter Tetley. Although your photos are small, they are better than anything I had seen before. After a thorough read of the page I must say I was both delighted and disappointed. For the past year and a half I have […]
Just a footnote. Walter played in the movie “GILDERSLEEVE ON BROADWAY”. He had alot of air time in this early 40’s film. He looked to old to play Leroy so he was a elevator operator. Don That’s really interesting, Don. I did see something, in Walter’s filmography, about a part that he played as an […]
Brian, Enjoyed reading your article on Walter Tetley’s last years, but man oh man, you have GOT to take a listen to his work on The Great Gildersleeve and The Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show to really appreciate how good an actor he was! If you (or anyone reading this) have not heard these […]
I just read your very interesting accounting of Walter Tetley’s existence. I had heard Walter died some years back in the early ’80’s but I didn’t know he was in a motorcyle accident. I was really writing you to remind you, if you don’t already know it, that Walter’s biggest claim to fame, was his […]
Brian, Here are the promised images. Enjoy! I included a few photos of William Conrad with his Gunsmoke cast. Like Walter Tetley, Conrad was not able to take his radio character to television. Conrad’s radio career began in 1946 with an episode of The Whistler and by the earlier 1950s, he was one of the […]