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The Great Gildersleeve
201 of his episodes: The Great Gildersleeve (201)
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Old-time radio actor · 1915–1975
Leroy, Gildersleeve's nephew, on The Great Gildersleeve.
We have him in 427 episodes of 10 series, 1939 to 1957, and 8 of our live channels play them around the clock, free.

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Walter Tetley was born Walter Campbell Tetzlaff on June 2, 1915, in Manhattan, New York City. Source: Wikipedia
His first radio work came in 1930 on NBC's The Children's Hour, where he sang Scottish songs. Source: Wikipedia
In the late 1930s he was a frequent player on Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight, then stayed on the West Coast after Allen's company went to Hollywood in 1940. Source: Wikipedia
He kept the voice and look of a preteen boy all his adult life, so nearly all of his parts were young boys. Source: Wikipedia
On The Great Gildersleeve he played Leroy Forrester, the orphaned nephew Gildersleeve raised, and stayed in the part until the show ended in 1958. Source: Wikipedia
Because he was a grown man playing a boy, he could not play Leroy in the Gildersleeve films; Freddie Mercer took the part in the 1942 picture. Source: Wikipedia: The Great Gildersleeve
On The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show he played Julius, a wisecracking grocery delivery boy who made trouble for Harris and Frank Remley and was sweet on Alice Faye. Source: Wikipedia: The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
On television he voiced Sherman, the boy in glasses who travels with Mr. Peabody in "Peabody's Improbable History," from 1959. Source: Wikipedia
A motorcycle accident in 1971 left him using a wheelchair; he died on September 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, at 60. Source: Wikipedia
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201 of his episodes: The Great Gildersleeve (201)
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1 of his episodes: Orson Welles on the Air (1)
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416 of his episodes: The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show (215), The Great Gildersleeve (201)
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13 of his episodes: The Great Gildersleeve (7), The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show (6)
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9 of his episodes: Lux Radio Theatre (2), Family Theater (2), Hallmark Playhouse (1), Screen Directors Playhouse (1), Screen Guild Theater (1), Cavalcade of America (1), Orson Welles on the Air (1)
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| Series | Years | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show | 1946 to 1954 | 215 |
| The Great Gildersleeve | 1942 to 1957 | 201 |
| Crime Classics | 1953 to 1954 | 2 |
| Family Theater | 1947 to 1948 | 2 |
| Lux Radio Theatre | 1939 to 1941 | 2 |
| Cavalcade of America | 1946 | 1 |
| Hallmark Playhouse | 1949 | 1 |
| Orson Welles on the Air | 1940 | 1 |
| Screen Directors Playhouse | 1951 | 1 |
| Screen Guild Theater | 1945 | 1 |
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