NORMAN CORWIN "Lighthouse Keepers"

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Known as the Poet Laureate of Radio, Norman Corwin is one of the greatest writer-producer-directors the Golden Age Norman Corwin directed episode 108 of The CBS Workshop. The Lighthouse Keepers starred Ray Collins and Luis d'Antin van Rooten (November 29, 1906 – June 17, 1973). He was a Mexican-born American actor. He was sometimes credited as Louis Van Rooten. Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Collins went to Hollywood with the Mercury Theatre company and made his feature-film debut in Citizen Kane (1941), as Kane's ruthless political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Arthur Tragg in the CBS-TV series Perry Mason.