Wendell Niles
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 29, 1904, Livingston, Montana, USA
- Died
- March 28, 1994
- Movies
- 26
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Wendell Niles (December 29, 1904 – March 28, 1994) was one of the great announcers of the American golden age of radio. He was an announcer on such shows as The Charlotte Greenwood Show, Hedda Hopper's Hollywood, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe,[2] The Man Called X,[3] The Bob Hope Show, The Burns & Allen Show, The Milton Berle Show and The Chase and Sanborn Hour . On February 15, 1950, Wendell starred in the radio pilot for The Adventures of the Scarlet Cloak along with Gerald Mohr.
He began in entertainment by touring in the 1920s with his own orchestra, playing with the Dorsey Brothers and Bix Beiderbecke.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1957 | Jet Pilot | |
| 1956 | Hollywood or Bust | Wendell Niles (uncredited) |
| 1956 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Announcer |
| 1956 | A Strange Adventure | Newscaster (uncredited) |
| 1955 | The Square Jungle | |
| 1955 | I Died a Thousand Times | Radio Announcer (uncredited) |
| 1953 | The Hitch-Hiker | Wendell Niles |
| 1948 | Street Corner | Wendell Niles |
| 1945 | Swingin' on a Rainbow | Radio Announcer |
| 1945 | Hitchhike to Happiness | Wendell Niles (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Here Comes Elmer | Radio Announcer |
| 1943 | The Masked Marvel | Newscaster |
| 1942 | A Tragedy at Midnight | Show Announcer |
| 1941 | Harmon of Michigan | Wendell Niles |
| 1941 | A Man Betrayed | Radio Announcer (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Fashion Horizons | |
| 1940 | Three Faces West | Man-on-the-Street Radio Announcer |
| 1940 | Gaucho Serenade | Radio Announcer |
| 1939 | Four Wives | Concert Radio Announcer (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Roaring Twenties | Self - Announcer (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Espionage Agent | Radio Announcer Introducing Garrett |
| 1939 | Indianapolis Speedway | First Radio Announcer |
| 1938 | Cowboy from Brooklyn | Radio Announcer |
| 1937 | Ever Since Eve | Monteray Police Announcer (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Marked Woman | Radio News Commentator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Crowd Roars | First Radio Announcer |
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