Joseph Julian

Born Joseph Shapiro in June 1910 in St. Marys, Pennsylvania. Source: Joseph Julian Papers, American Heritage Center (Archives West)

His first radio work was as a crowd voice in the re-enactments on The March of Time, and he also spent a short stretch as a sound man. Source: Harry Heuser, Broadcastellan

His papers credit him with more than 10,000 radio broadcasts, with his best-known work done alongside Orson Welles and Norman Corwin. Source: Joseph Julian Papers, American Heritage Center (Archives West)

He was the narrator of An American in England in 1942, and RadioGOLDINdex logs him on Columbia Presents Corwin in 1944. Source: RadioGOLDINdex

He worked in radio science fiction, with logged appearances on Dimension X (1950-1951) and X Minus One (1955-1956). Source: RadioGOLDINdex

On The CBS Radio Workshop (1956-1957) he was heard in plays including both parts of "The Space Merchants" in February 1957. Source: RadioGOLDINdex

His Suspense work runs from 1959 to 1962, starting with "Death and The Escort" and "Room 203" in 1959; in 1974 he was heard on CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Source: RadioGOLDINdex

After he was named in Red Channels in 1950 his radio bookings fell away; his libel suit against CBS was dismissed after a 1954 trial, and radio acting offers returned after the U.S. Steel Hour staged one of his plays that December. Source: Harry Heuser, Broadcastellan

He wrote a memoir of his career, This Was Radio, partly to set down his years on the blacklist; he died in New York in March 1982. Source: Harry Heuser, Broadcastellan