Maurice Tarplin (April 1, 1911, Boston, Massachusetts - May 12, 1975)
was a novelist and a radio actor best known as the narrator of The
Mysterious Traveler, employing a voice once described as "eerily
sardonic."Tarplin was a familiar voice as Dr. Weird on The Strange Dr.
Weird and Inspector Faraday on Boston Blackie. He was heard on
numerous other shows, including Valiant Lady, The Shadow, Theater
Five, The March of Time (as Winston Churchill), Gangbusters and
various soap operas. He played Los Angeles District Attorney Richard
Hanley on The Guiding Light. On Myrt and Marge he played Barnie
Belzer, and he was in several episodes of Tom Corbett, Space
Cadet.Tarplin's novel, Seven Casks of Death, was published in the June
1948 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine.In later years, Tarplin did
voiceovers for TV commercials and worked on the English language
soundtracks for foreign films.
was a novelist and a radio actor best known as the narrator of The
Mysterious Traveler, employing a voice once described as "eerily
sardonic."Tarplin was a familiar voice as Dr. Weird on The Strange Dr.
Weird and Inspector Faraday on Boston Blackie. He was heard on
numerous other shows, including Valiant Lady, The Shadow, Theater
Five, The March of Time (as Winston Churchill), Gangbusters and
various soap operas. He played Los Angeles District Attorney Richard
Hanley on The Guiding Light. On Myrt and Marge he played Barnie
Belzer, and he was in several episodes of Tom Corbett, Space
Cadet.Tarplin's novel, Seven Casks of Death, was published in the June
1948 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine.In later years, Tarplin did
voiceovers for TV commercials and worked on the English language
soundtracks for foreign films.
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