Sunday, August 03, 2014

Poor Sgt. Otis!

One character on old radio shows who has my complete sympathy is Sgt. Otis Loveloon, the slow-witted assistant of Lt. Walter Levinson on the Richard Diamond radio show. Diamond is always taking cuts at him, and Otis is rarely able to make a snappy comeback. Otis was played by actor Wilms Herbert, who was also the Francis, the butler of Diamond's girlfriend.

Wilms Herbert, the first actor to play Anthony J. Lyon on Jeff Regan, Investigator.  Herbert appears in the episode featured on this week’s podcast. Herbert was a versatile actor; shortly after he left Jeff Regan, he joined the cast of Richard Diamond, Private Detective as two members of the regular cast: the dim-witted Sgt. Otis, and Francis, Helen Asher’s stuffy butler.
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