William Gargan
Biography
William Gargan, born William Dennis Gargan July 17, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA and died February 17, 1979 aged 73 on a flight between New York and San Diego. He was an American motion picture, television and radio actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions, including two appearances as detective Ellery Queen, but was best known for his role as Detective Martin Kane in the 1949-51 radio-television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. He also appeared as a private detective in the NBC radio show Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, which ran from 1951 to 1955.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Till the End of Time
1946
Murder in the Music Hall
1946
Wings Over Honolulu
1937
Things Are Looking Up
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
Rain
1932
Broadway Gondolier
1935
The Story of Temple Drake
1933
Alibi for Murder
1936
No Place for a Lady
1943
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941
The Mayor of 44th Street
1942
Broadway Serenade
1939
Night Editor
1946
Behind Green Lights
1946
Man Hunt
1936
She Asked for It
1937
You're a Sweetheart
1937
Turnabout
1940
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
1942
Dynamite
1949
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
1933
Complicated Women
2003
Breezing Home
1937
Reported Missing
1937
Harrigan's Kid
1943
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939
Four Frightened People
1934
Miss Annie Rooney
1942
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939
Double Alibi
1940
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
1942
Who Done It?
1942
Midnight Manhunt
1945
She Gets Her Man
1945
You Only Live Once
1937
The Sky Parade
1936
The Crowd Roars
1938
Navy Born
1936
Flying Hostess
1936