William Gargan
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.
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PHOTOS
TV Series
Studio One
5
Martin Kane, Private Eye
6
The George Gobel Show
7.333
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.429
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Movies
Man on the Ledge
0
Strange Impersonation
6
Hot Cargo
0
I Wake Up Screaming
6.868
Midnight Manhunt
4.5
The Bells of St. Mary's
6.78
Sealed Lips
5.8
Night Editor
5.6
The Story of Temple Drake
6.5
Within the Law
6
The Milky Way
6
Rain
6.7
Broadway Gondolier
5.4
Four Frightened People
6.176
Behind Green Lights
5.413
Who Done It?
7
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
5.7
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
5.2
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
5.5
The Canterville Ghost
6.7
Lucky Devils
6.25
Star Dust
4.7
You Only Live Once
7.128
Double Alibi
4.5
Don't Bet on Blondes
5
Black Fury
6.477
Night Flight
5.8
They Knew What They Wanted
5.55
Miracle in the Rain
6.7
Till the End of Time
6.7
The Animal Kingdom
5.6
Waterfront at Midnight
4
Emergency Call
5.8
Murder in the Music Hall
4.6
Cheers for Miss Bishop
5.625
Turnabout
6
Bright Lights
4.5
Broadway Serenade
6.2
British Agent
5.5
The House of Fear
6.5
Destination Unknown
6
Three Sons
3.2
Miss Annie Rooney
6.3
Headline Shooter
5.8
Things Are Looking Up
6
Sweepings
5.8
Harrigan's Kid
0
Traveling Saleslady
5.9
Women in the Wind
6.8
Strictly Dynamite
5.3
The Argyle Secrets
6
Swing Fever
5
The Housekeeper's Daughter
3.5
A Night at the Ritz
3
Navy Born
4.5
She Gets Her Man
3.7
The Mayor of 44th Street
4.333
The Devil's Party
4.857
The Adventures of Jane Arden
5.7
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
7.2
Isle Of Destiny
5
Personal Secretary
0
Follow the Leader
5.4
The Sport Parade
5.3
The Crowd Roars
6.5
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
0
She Asked for It
6
The Sky Parade
0
Dynamite
2.5
Reported Missing
0
You're a Sweetheart
4.167
Fury and the Woman
0
Alibi for Murder
5.75
Sporting Blood
4.3
The Misleading Lady
0
Wings Over Honolulu
5.5
Man Hunt
0
Some Blondes Are Dangerous
1
No Place for a Lady
6
Keep 'Em Flying
5.9
Bombay Clipper
5.5
Song of the Sarong
5
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
2
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
0
Swell Guy
0
The Rawhide Years
5.5
The Hollywood Gad-About
5
Things You Never See on the Screen
5
Breezing Home
0
Complicated Women
6.7
Follow That Woman
6
Flying Hostess
0
Behind the Mike
0
Blackmailer
5
Flying Cadets
3