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Ed Begley, Sr.
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Actor Born: March 25, 1901 in Hartford, CT Death: April 28, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Born in Connecticut to an immigrant Irish couple, Ed Begley ran away from home several times before making a complete break from both his family and his formal education at the age of 13. For the next two decades, Begley knocked around in a variety of activities, from Naval service to working as bowling alley pin boy, before obtaining an announcer's job at a Hartford radio station in 1931. Ten years later, Begley moved to New York, where he became a prolific radio actor; from 1944 through 1948, he played the title role in the radio version of "Charlie Chan". His belated Broadway debut at age 43 came in a short-lived play titled Land of Fame. In 1947, Begley created the role of benighted war profiteer Joe Keller in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons"; that same year, he was assigned a solid supporting part in his first film, "Boomerang" (1947). He was a familiar figure in TV's "golden age" of the 1950s,... Full Biography
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