actors who played Michael Lanyard, aka The Lone Wolf. He made 3 films in this series, “The Notorious Lone Wolf”, “The Lone Wolf in Mexico” and “The Lone Wolf in London”. He also made a cameo appearance in the Rita Hayworth film noir, “Gilda” (1946) and co-starred in “The Magnificent Rogue” (1946).
In 1948 he made his debut for CBS Radio as Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe in “The Adventures of Philip Marlowe”. He made 119 episodes between 1948 and 1951 and is still regarded as THE voice of Marlowe for his powerful character portrayal. Raymond Chandler once remarked, in a letter to a friend in the 1950s, that “A voice like Gerald Mohr’s gave you a personality which you could fill out to your fancy.” In 1950 “Radio and Television Life” magazine named Gerald Mohr “The Best Male Actor on Radio”.
Gerald also started working in television in 1951.
In 1952 Gerald decided, for the second time in his life (first time circa 1941 to remove a marked hooked nose!) to undergo plastic surgery to his nose in order to slightly improve his appearance following the fame he gained as “The Lone Wolf”. Unfortunately, a few months after recovering from the surgery, he met with an accident which broke his nose and caused a large gash to the right side of his face. “Boy meets window” was the only comment Gerald made at the time, but the circumstances surrounding this potentially life-threatening accident were never divulged to the newspapers. The facial injury, as can be seen thereafter, resulted in a badly dented nose and a large scar which caused permanent damage to the muscles on the right side of his face.
During 1954-55 he worked in Europe on the syndicated TV series “Foreign Intrigue: Cross Current”. He starred as Christopher Storm in 39 episodes, during which Gerald travelled over 60,000 miles throughout Europe with a Swedish film crew and supporting actors from Svensk Filmindustri in Stockholm. It was during this time that he met Mai Dietrich (née Cedeby), who was a script editor with the Swedish film company. During several episodes of “Foreign Intrigue: Cross Current” Gerald can be seen playing on the piano his own composition for the show, called “The Frontier Theme”, so called because his character, Christopher Storm, owned a hotel in Vienna called the Frontier.
On his return to America he worked increasingly in TV as guest star in series such as TV Westerns Maverick, Cheyenne, Bananza, Bronco, Outlaws, Bat Masterson, etc.
In 1948 he made his debut for CBS Radio as Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe in “The Adventures of Philip Marlowe”. He made 119 episodes between 1948 and 1951 and is still regarded as THE voice of Marlowe for his powerful character portrayal. Raymond Chandler once remarked, in a letter to a friend in the 1950s, that “A voice like Gerald Mohr’s gave you a personality which you could fill out to your fancy.” In 1950 “Radio and Television Life” magazine named Gerald Mohr “The Best Male Actor on Radio”.
Gerald also started working in television in 1951.
In 1952 Gerald decided, for the second time in his life (first time circa 1941 to remove a marked hooked nose!) to undergo plastic surgery to his nose in order to slightly improve his appearance following the fame he gained as “The Lone Wolf”. Unfortunately, a few months after recovering from the surgery, he met with an accident which broke his nose and caused a large gash to the right side of his face. “Boy meets window” was the only comment Gerald made at the time, but the circumstances surrounding this potentially life-threatening accident were never divulged to the newspapers. The facial injury, as can be seen thereafter, resulted in a badly dented nose and a large scar which caused permanent damage to the muscles on the right side of his face.
During 1954-55 he worked in Europe on the syndicated TV series “Foreign Intrigue: Cross Current”. He starred as Christopher Storm in 39 episodes, during which Gerald travelled over 60,000 miles throughout Europe with a Swedish film crew and supporting actors from Svensk Filmindustri in Stockholm. It was during this time that he met Mai Dietrich (née Cedeby), who was a script editor with the Swedish film company. During several episodes of “Foreign Intrigue: Cross Current” Gerald can be seen playing on the piano his own composition for the show, called “The Frontier Theme”, so called because his character, Christopher Storm, owned a hotel in Vienna called the Frontier.
On his return to America he worked increasingly in TV as guest star in series such as TV Westerns Maverick, Cheyenne, Bananza, Bronco, Outlaws, Bat Masterson, etc.
